The Grind is what we backdrop to when we aren’t sure what to do. It’s the work that is always there, that if we sit down or put on a timer that we would simply work through it. It’s the pile as high as a mountain that is higher than we wish that we are just waiting to see what will happen. It’s there, waiting to get done but because it’s not sexy, cool, or…
Remote work was easy when everyone was forced to be remote. We all had to do it, might as well figure it out. Now we’re not being forced to do it. Like anything when you’re not forced to do it, your desire to do it wanes, you pull back, you relax, you’re not at your most interested. What we did for those few years as Remote Workers, worked for that scenario, but those parameters don’t…
We don’t know the problem until we know what it is. Everything up until that point is learning what the problem is. The faster you learn the problem, the sooner you know what to do with it. Everything else is noise, focus on the problem, plan the solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwG4F-16Tno
Many video games are based on similar engines and formulas. They know what works and they follow that plan, new games come along because the engine is proven and they re-use it to save money. The formula stays the same with little to no improvement, costs decrease, and the need to do “well” drops because development time was saved and we can do “meh”. Or you can stay in a hole for a while, or…
Someone makes a cool video and everyone jumps on. It becomes a trend and everyone starts to do it because they get views – the trend becomes bigger but then becomes stale as innovation drops. Now it’s just someone else doing the same thing they’ve seen a thousand (or more times). No one wants to do the same thing over and over again in life, but it exists for views (the exact opposite of why…