Walk First, Decide Later

An unreasonable claim Almost every hard call I have made in the last five years was made outdoors, moving, with no way to write anything down.

I do not think this is mystical. A walk removes the two things that make decisions worse: a screen offering fresh information, and a chair that lets you keep circling.

The shape of it Leave with the question stated out loud, once. Then stop working on it. Look at things. Let the first twenty minutes be genuinely boring.

The answer usually arrives on the way back, uninvited, and it arrives as a feeling of relief rather than a conclusion.

If nothing comes Then the question was wrong, or you do not have enough information yet. Both are useful findings, and both are cheaper to learn on a footpath than in a meeting.