july

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

My best thinking happens while walking, or when doing mundane things.

But, despite knowing this, I still have the terrible habit of not letting problems wait until those moments. For example, if I'm stuck on something with my work, I'll be like, "If I work on this for just a little while longer, I can figure it out." And then hours pass, and I've gotten nowhere. Only for the solution to immediately pop in my head at 11:30pm while washing my hair or something 😆

What I tell my problems sometimes:

“Hey we’re not arriving at any sort of breakthrough here, so why don’t we circle back at 8 in the morning and see if anything has happened”

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

In medicine, we refer to this type of approach as “expectant management” or “watchful waiting.”

Basically, wait some interval and see if an expected improvement actually has occurred or whether anything new has happened that warrants active intervention.