Warren Buffett's biography is called The Snowball, after his idea that all you need is sticky snow and a long hill. One of us builds his body of photographs one picture at a time, whether it ends up in a book or in a thrift store after he's gone. The show works the same way: since the first episode it has gone out steadily, with short clips in between, and it has never felt like a chore, because we keep it simple. That raises a harder question about why people dream up grand, complicated projects, and whether the complication is partly a way of never starting.
One of us spent years at a grocery store register feeling dead inside, and later dreaded every shift of an at-home tech support job for Apple. Since then he has built his working life so that the jobs that need someone's permission are optional. We talk about chasing fear, and about a former White House chef who joined a group cooking dinner for strangers in Compton, because his mother had told him that if something doesn't scare you, it isn't the right thing. Then comes Bob Dylan's idea that you're a success if you spend your days doing what you want to do. It closes on one of us looking up from a day of editing, surprised to find it's already four o'clock.
Mentioned in this episode: Warren Buffett, Alice Schroeder's The Snowball, Mad Men, Rick Rubin's The Creative Act, Steven Pressfield's The War of Art, Final Cut Pro, Steven Spielberg, Bob Dylan.
-Ai
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