I'm pulling on the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.

Okay, so last time I talked about going to Chicago to drop off my daughter, Rachel, my oldest daughter, for college.

So this episode is all about letting go. So what I was going to do is sort of compare what it's like as a parent to let your child sort of go off on their own to taking a set and handing a set over.

Because one of the things that's been true since ever really, I've been working on magic is I tend to work on the early part of them.

Whether it's design or vision design or whatever, I work on the early part of them, whether it's design or vision design or

whatever. I work on the part of the design, which is it starts with a blank piece of paper

and I develop, and my team develop what the essence of the thing is and what the mechanics

are and such. But at some point, I hand it over to a different person and a different team that is going to continue working on it.

You know, there are very few projects, for example, that I was on from the very beginning to the very end.

There's a few, you know, Tempest, the very first team I designed.

I was also on the development team.

That was true of Odyssey, the uns first team I designed. I was also on the development team. It was true of Odyssey, the unsets I've been on all the way through.

But the vast majority of the sets, at some point I'm taking what I'm doing and I'm

passing it along to somebody else.

And that one of the things that's important to sort of understand is that there's a lot

of parallels I see between sort of being a parent and being a creator.

I've talked about this before, that I think the act of making something, of bringing something

into existence, it's not all that different from sort of

birthing a baby, of bringing a baby into the world. So what I want to do today is I want to sort of,

like I spend a lot of time on my podcast talking about certain aspects of the process. And I tend to lean a little more

toward the kind of exciting, happy parts of the process. But, you know, one of the things about, like,

the way the process works is you are constantly iterating. You are constantly making the set

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