Momentum: Starting, Keeping, and Redirecting It

There's a spot on the bike trail behind our house where the path drops and then swoops back up, and you can see both the short slope and the long climb right in front of you. My younger son gets nervous at the top because the gravel there is slippery, so if he stops to walk up he slides. But if he kept his momentum down the hill, it would carry him three-quarters of the way up the next section, and one or two pedal strokes get him over the rest. Stopping is what makes it hard. Staying in motion is what makes it easy.That's one of three aspects to momentum I've been contemplating: the physical kind, where staying in motion beats starting and stopping. There's also the design kind where you build a process so momentum can pass from one person to the next, and the redirecting kind for when the exact piece you want to move won't budge no matter how well it's designed. This week's Tessera: Name which of the three you're dealing with right now - starting, keeping, or redirecting, and get that moving today instead of waiting for the whole thing to be right.Read the companion article at https://tesseros.com/tessory-e16-redirecting-momentumTimestamps:01:09 Designing process momentum at an accounting firm03:52 Physical momentum on the bike trail05:27 Getting stuck on the AI game competition06:20 Redirecting momentum into a website audit08:00 Choosing which aspect of momentum you need this week