Strategizing While on Vacation

The Vacation Setup

I drove down to Busan with my wife and daughter.

In between visits with both sets of parents, I squeezed in every spare moment to design and test strategies.

~~(Labor Day + a vacation day + Children’s Day + Parents’ Day + both fathers’ birthdays — a four-day trip all rolled into one)~~

YouTube and PC bangs felt like a waste of time, so I’d been grinding away like this,

but when the strategies I’d had high hopes for failed one after another, the stress really started to pile uuup…

I’d started this for fun, started it relaxed,

but somehow, because “work” and “rest” weren’t cleanly separated, the stress was definitely there.

Before I even knew it, I was sighing to myself…

I was walking my wife through one of the strategies when she said:

Wow, you came all the way out here and you’re still testing something this complicated? That’s seriously impressive.

Ah, right. I really am doing something extremely hard — this thing called “a business.”

Over this trip alone, I finished testing two whole strategy ideas,

and I even managed to push one of them into the final portfolio.

No need to dwell on the one that didn’t work out..!

One of them succeeded!

I’m so grateful to my wife.

Nice work!