the 9-9-6 local maxima trap — Ryo Lu
you can optimize for looking busy, hitting metrics, being “productive” – but you might be climbing the wrong hill entirely. real breakthroughs happen in the spaces between. when…
you can optimize for looking busy, hitting metrics, being “productive” – but you might be climbing the wrong hill entirely. real breakthroughs happen in the spaces between. when you’re walking and your mind wanders. when you sit with a problem long enough that the obvious solutions dissolve and something deeper emerges. when you have the luxury of thinking “what if we’re approaching this completely wrong?” my process is simple: i’ll open a Notion doc on my phone and just walk. sometimes for hours. the walking rhythm unlocks something – maybe it’s the bilateral movement, maybe it’s getting…
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