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  "content_html": "\u003ch1\u003eGTFO(utside)\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis isn’t fresh, new advice. You’ve heard this, you know it; hell, you’ve probably \u003cem\u003egiven\u003c/em\u003e it. But it’s so remarkably easy to get caught up in routine and urgency, and so \u003cem\u003eradically effective\u003c/em\u003e when you do it, that it warrants yet another reminder.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen you’ve got significant decisions to make, or a big-context problem in your head, or are just feeling out of fuel: \u003cstrong\u003ego outside.\u003c/strong\u003e Ideally get as far from human-made noise as you can. A park, a favorite tree, the woods, a river, whatever you can get to that doesn’t feel like you’re in a manufactured box and doesn’t sound like production. Do it during work hours. \u003cstrong\u003eWhat you’re doing is work, and you’re going to spend time capturing context and/or insight.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTake a notebook and a favorite pen and sketch as you go.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrains do better at braining creatively when you get outside, or at least out of your routine environment. You’re not running away or procrastinating. \u003cstrong\u003eYou’re doing the important part.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen can you do this during your day tomorrow?\u003c/p\u003e\n",
  "content_md": "# GTFO(utside)\n\nThis isn’t fresh, new advice. You’ve heard this, you know it; hell, you’ve probably _given_ it. But it’s so remarkably easy to get caught up in routine and urgency, and so _radically effective_ when you do it, that it warrants yet another reminder.\n\nWhen you’ve got significant decisions to make, or a big-context problem in your head, or are just feeling out of fuel: **go outside.** Ideally get as far from human-made noise as you can. A park, a favorite tree, the woods, a river, whatever you can get to that doesn’t feel like you’re in a manufactured box and doesn’t sound like production. Do it during work hours. **What you’re doing is work, and you’re going to spend time capturing context and/or insight.**\n\nTake a notebook and a favorite pen and sketch as you go.\n\nBrains do better at braining creatively when you get outside, or at least out of your routine environment. You’re not running away or procrastinating. **You’re doing the important part.**\n\nWhen can you do this during your day tomorrow?",
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