“You’re probably doing things like that, as best you can. My remaining thought is something like “do fewer things, but give yourself a lot more time to do them.” (For example, I ran the 2012 Solstice almost entirely by myself, but I gave myself an entire year to do it, and it was my only major creative project that year)”—was it worth it?
Oh definitely, although this comes with some caveats that are basically a whole other blogpost. But in short, if you have a weird idea that nobody really understands yet, if you want to bring it into reality I think you’ll basically need to put a lot of your own work in.
I’m less confident that if you’re the sort of person or org getting lots of things done, cutting things to retain sanity is necessarily a workable solution, if all the things are really just necessary.
It may in fact just be necessary to have people running on fumes juggling lots of concurrent projects, if you are trying to achieve particular types of ambitious things.
“You’re probably doing things like that, as best you can. My remaining thought is something like “do fewer things, but give yourself a lot more time to do them.” (For example, I ran the 2012 Solstice almost entirely by myself, but I gave myself an entire year to do it, and it was my only major creative project that year)”—was it worth it?
Oh definitely, although this comes with some caveats that are basically a whole other blogpost. But in short, if you have a weird idea that nobody really understands yet, if you want to bring it into reality I think you’ll basically need to put a lot of your own work in.
Giving myself a full year was definitely correct.
I’m less confident that if you’re the sort of person or org getting lots of things done, cutting things to retain sanity is necessarily a workable solution, if all the things are really just necessary.
It may in fact just be necessary to have people running on fumes juggling lots of concurrent projects, if you are trying to achieve particular types of ambitious things.