Saved by Stuart Evans
Stop Running Headfirst into Problems
Ideas sometimes seem to need days or weeks or months to get to a point where they feel fully formed. If you try to force a solution to a problem into a preset window of time, you will almost certainly reach a suboptimal solution.
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See more
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
we need psychological distance to improve things, so find something else to work on while this one bakes at scale for a bit.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
Don’t get too excited about new systems you build for yourself (here’s a transcription of an audio note from Plexus):
... See moreYou have an early excitement for the fact that you've designed something, that you've taken initiative, that you are, you know, making a move to better yourself and close the gap between where you are and your vision. That's all ver
If you can reflect deeply about your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head-on.