Press enter or click to view image in full size A day can be completely full and still leave you with the sense that nothing really moved. There are calls in the morning, things you’ve been putting off that finally get done, a few conversations that feel important in the moment. You move through all of it, tick things off, stay occupied. By the end of the day, it looks like you’ve done enough. It just doesn’t always feel like it. Being busy is easy to account for. You can explain it, point to it, almost justify it to yourself without thinking too much. “The day was packed” is usually enough. What’s harder to account for is the kind of work that doesn’t leave anything visible behind. Spending time trying to understand something and not getting there. Going back to the same piece of work multiple times because it doesn’t feel right yet. Sitting with a decision longer than you want to because the first answer feels too easy. None of that looks like progress when you try to describe it.…