Nothing is a draft (it’s all a draft)

Everything you create and everything you experience and everything you are all contribute to the current project. As a result, it’s all connected. Change a thing, and today’s work somehow changes. This means we each create just one project, in the end: our body of work.

Everything we do helps build that single thing. It might appear to be made of smaller pieces, much like our physical bodies, but those pieces are inextricably linked together to form the whole.

As a result, nothing is truly a draft. All the things that fall to the cutting room floor were, in some sense, necessary. Your body of work isn’t just the stuff others can see. It’s everything that went into it. So nothing is really a draft.

Then again, everything is a draft.

Every little moment of tinkering and thinking, every tiny project we ship, every bold venture, is just an iterative process. We iterate on the project itself, and we use that moment or project or venture as a stepping stone to the next one.

Nothing is a draft. But it’s all a draft.

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