Strength is boring, which is why it works

The move I was proud of last year took eight months of holds that looked like nothing. No progress you could photograph, just slightly less shaking each week.

Careers work the same way and nobody wants to hear it. The thing that made me employable was not a clever fix, it was years of reading logs carefully when it would have been faster to guess.

Whenever I want a shortcut now I ask what the boring version would be, and whether I could do it for six months. Usually that answer is the whole plan.