I can answer this one! Kangaroos often have multiple embryos/young on the go. It's not uncommon in good times for them to have an embryo developing, young in the pouch, and young that are hanging around but no longer need the pouch.
When times are tough, they can literally put the development of embryos on pause. It's called embryonic diapause and it's pretty unique to some of our marsupials! It's basically like 'oh it's a shit time to have a baby, time for you to go on pause for a little while.' When times are good, they basically flag 'go' on a whole bunch, and when it's bad, they just...freeze the development.
It's a good metaphor to remind multi-taskers to check in with their projects and ask if any of them need to be on hold right now.
The question therefore hooks into the reminder to check in with the concept of if you've got too much on the go and, if you checked into the land, would it tell you to maybe put one of those projects on pause?
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Date: 2020-09-30 03:13 am (UTC)When times are tough, they can literally put the development of embryos on pause. It's called embryonic diapause and it's pretty unique to some of our marsupials! It's basically like 'oh it's a shit time to have a baby, time for you to go on pause for a little while.' When times are good, they basically flag 'go' on a whole bunch, and when it's bad, they just...freeze the development.
It's a good metaphor to remind multi-taskers to check in with their projects and ask if any of them need to be on hold right now.
The question therefore hooks into the reminder to check in with the concept of if you've got too much on the go and, if you checked into the land, would it tell you to maybe put one of those projects on pause?