ABOUT THIS EPISODE
There’s a table in my office that’s never clean. Notes, drafts, sketches, half-finished things. All of it happening at once.
My twelve-year-old walked by and said, “What are you even making?”
I didn’t have a good answer. But this episode is what I came up with.
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