When I was a kid I knew a guy who was a fireman. So most times when he was around, he’d have his little radio with him and it would chirp or a message would come through every once and a while and he’d have to go check it and maybe even have to take off to go save some one.
He knew exactly what he was on call for.
Now we all have radios with us but have no idea what we’re on call for. So we decide we’re on call for anything and everything. Any beep, chirp, vibration, push note, we scramble for a distraction from the present. Why?
Seinfeld says that most tv shows 95% of the time is spent on politics and runaround and 5% on writing. But Seinfeld was 95% writing and 5% other stuff. If someone needed an interview, too bad, he was writing. If the producer had a question about the script, too bad, writing.
Everything else could wait, except the writing. That had to be done. That’s what he was on call for. He wasn’t on call for the other things even though most usually allow themselves to be.
What are you on call for?
What are you not on call for?
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