From the archive

Stop turning every pleasure into work

Making money from something you love can be fucking great. If you enjoy the whole process, there's demand, and the conditions let you live well, wonderful. I'm not going to claim money necessarily ruins creativity. But selling changes the arrangement. You no longer work only when you want to. Or only on what interests you. There are deadlines, revisions, negotiations, expectations, refunds, people who need the result by Friday.