Capture the Gold

Deep work sessions often produce insights that vanish if you don't catch them. The first minutes of your recovery ritual should include a brain dump: write down anything important that surfaced, such as ideas for other projects, follow-up tasks, questions to research, or links to other work.

Keep a dedicated capture page for these dumps and review it weekly. Many of your best ideas come not from brainstorming but from the overflow of deep work on something else.