Intentional Slacking: Sleep on it. Go for a walk.

I am a zealot about letting your wandering mind do a lot of work for you. Research shows that the unconscious part of your brain is way smarter than the one that got you the expensive piece of paper that says you went to college.

Suzanne Vega (who wrote "Tom's Diner" about this diner in upper Manhattan that I used to live above -- it's also the restaurant that is the outside shot for "Monk's" on Seinfeld -- small world) writes about the creative muse here.

I like to think of this as further evidence of how instead of asking "Where is Ben?" my teammates should be asking, "I wonder what he is out creating right now by using his unconscious mind?"