underlying the practical question of what idea or project to focus on creatively is the much bigger question of how to weave creative work into all the other things you do and want to do. In other words, how to build a sustainable system for your life.

She preferred to get lost in a single project at a time, obsessing over it until she could release it fully to move on to what came next. I was convinced that the slowness of working on just one important thing per day would hold me back.