Jump the Track: Knowing When to Pivot

My fridge died a couple weeks ago, in the morning, right as we were getting ready for school. A power surge took out several appliances across the neighborhood. It still had lights, but the control panel was blank except for a row of eights, and neither compressor was kicking on. I spent about 90 minutes with Gemini working through it methodically before landing on the control board being fried, and the repair not being worth it. That's the moment that pushed me back into an idea I'd been chasing down for a friend a few weeks earlier: the railroad track analogy from episode 154 of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis and will.i.am.The analogy: building a career or a life used to mean choosing a track and staying disciplined on it. Now the tracks themselves get moved, sometimes blown up, while we're still traveling on them, and the skill isn't staying on track anymore, it's developing the agility to jump to another one without breaking everything in the transition. This week's Tessera: Name one thing you're still trying to make work even though part of you already knows the track has shifted, and ask honestly whether you're staying because it's still going somewhere, or because leaving feels like losing.Read the companion article at https://tesseros.com/tessory-e12-knowing-when-to-pivotTimestamps:00:45 The railroad track analogy for resiliency and agency03:10 The broken fridge and troubleshooting with Gemini05:25 Pausing the kitchen remodel to get clarity07:50 Publishing the new Tesseros pages and the fear before hitting go10:20 Using AI as an iterative tool for quick wins12:10 Applying the railroad track idea to work and life