Boy, if every day this week turns out to be like yesterday I’d be finished with my entire to-do list on Friday. That would be good, because I’d also be dead.
One of the things they don’t tell you when you go freelance is that, yeah, if you billed for a full 40 hours every week you could make some serious bank, but you really wind up billing for only about half to two-thirds of your time; the rest is spent on overhead, fielding emails, organizing stuff, and so on.
Yesterday I billed fourteen hours.
Think about that for a second, while I go take a nap.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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