It’s astonishing how often I overlook the straightforward solutions to my problems, gravitating instead toward the complex or high-tech ones. I do this, even though it’s the simple, boring solutions that actually work. I recently found myself in a productivity rut of sorts. Working for yourself means you (mostly) get to choose what you work on each day, and while liberating, this can also be paralyzing. Faced with a variety of compelling projects, I was unable to choose just one to work on. Instead, I avoided