Sometimes there's a nut that you know you'll have to crack.

  • Sometimes there's a nut that you know you'll have to crack.
    • Perhaps there is something inescapable in your product domain that means at some point if you don't crack that particular technical or design nut you won't be able to make progress.
    • One option is to go straight up to the nut and try to crack it now.
    • But that means that now everything is blocked on cracking that nut, making the process high pressure, and also you won't yet be strong.
      • There's a good chance you spend all of your effort trying to crack it and never succeed.
    • Are there ways to make progress and momentum, building up strength to be able to crack the nut on your own terms and timing?