ratio’d

Yer man Ganzeer, setting out his advice to young artists about the realities of the job: Just know that it’ll involve something like 70% admin, 20% actual creative work, and 10% putting out fires and/or wanting to die. G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y https://ganzeer.today/one-of-the-surest-ways-to-infuse-my-existence-with-misery-is-to-sit-me-in-front Yesterday was the third anniversary of the founding of Magrathea Futures AB, and while the ratios don’t map exactly, Ganzeer’s lament describes a pattern I really recognise. That said: from what I can tell from talking to people who have “real jobs” (whatever those are nowadays), a very similar distribution of effort seems to apply to their working lives, too. Yes, those people may have “stability” of employment, but that seems to be an increasingly relative metric for everyone. Meanwhile, yes, I have to do all my of my own admyn—but that does tend to mean the admyn gets done on time, and to my preferred standards. (There is something oddly…