Adam Savage - Bay Area Maker Faire : Sunday Sermon 2024 - 3 of 3 - #AdamSavage #BayArea #MakerFaire

25 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief closing segment of his Sunday Sermon at the 2024 Bay Area Maker Faire, Adam Savage reflects on the distinction between being a maker and a manager, explaining how that insight led him to institute a weekly "no‑meeting day" where he works uninterrupted in his shop from arrival to departure. He admits that even on those days he sometimes under‑utilises the time, noting that he has historically treated his workshop as a scarce resource, squeezing every possible second out of it. By deliberately opening up his schedule, he hopes to shift his mindset from scarcity to abundance. He ends by expressing gratitude to the audience and thanking a person named John for facilitating the talk.

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And all I'm doing is thinking about the meeting, and then what do I do? I miss the meeting. I'm so sorry when I say something you want to say all the time. Um, the maker-manager thing was really illuminating, and it led to me understanding that at least once a week, once per week, I get a meeting— a no-meeting day when there's no meetings from the moment I show up in the cave until I leave. And even sometimes on those days, I don't take advantage of the whole day, which is It's weird for me because I've always treated the shop as a scarcity model. I get every possible second in there, but I'm opening up a little bit because, well, I get to spend a lot of time in there. Um, I hope some of those answers were useful. Um, I love you guys. Thank you so much for letting John talk to you. Thank you.