Downtime is where the breakthroughs hide.

I’m terrible at shutting my brain off. But every time I do, the big ideas show up or the big course-corrections become obvious.

The grind tricks you into thinking you’re being productive. Step away long enough and two things surface fast:

• You’ve been burning cycles on low-value work.
• Or there’s a smarter path that was hiding in plain sight.

This is a note to myself heading into the holidays: disconnect. That’s when the real work gets done.