Of course it does, and is it any surprise the most innovative city and urban centers in the world are the most walkable?
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
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#112This is exactly why I am bullish on voice AI! Walking and voicing my thoughts out to an AI agent who can talk back or take actions for me is very liberating.
This is great. Maybe before self driving becomes a thing we can convince our capital hoarding tech oligarchs who run the country we need more walkable cities to feed ai inputs
Re: Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
#113Walking, showering, sleeping, and riding a bike are great ways to debug code. It's very cool to go to sleep and wake up knowing what the solution to the problem is. The key for incubation for me is to make sure my brain can churn without distractions (that means no listening to podcasts, music, etc while performing said action).
Yup, that's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network It's the daydreaming/mind-wandering state that occurs when you're not focused on an external task. With all the stimuli of the modern world, I feel like we're being starved of crucial DMN time if we don't engineer conditions like the ones you describe.
Quite the interesting but unapproachable topic. Doesn't help that neurology logic on brain-level is dynamic and general rules are hard to extract.
Re: Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish more people knew you can turn iPhones and Androids into dumbphones through MDM and other methods. It would save people money , you wouldn't have to sacrifice security, and they wouldn't complain about losing Google maps or Signal. Result is no ability to install apps and no web browsing. It's really a smart, smartphone because you get the benefits of it being smart without becoming dumb through the distraction…
So you have an article you can point to?
Cider9986 answered for Android, so I'll throw out a suggestion for iPhone.
Assistive Access on iPhone might be an option for people looking for something drastic. Turning it on is simple, but it's pretty brutal and a bit crude in some ways even compared to a feature phone. Your mileage will vary! It's something I often suggest, and never quite recommend.
https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/assistive-access-iphon...
You pick the apps you want access to, and the permissions each should have, set a password, and then when you turn Assistive Access on, the phone reboots into a very limited mode. You can have every app you want, but when I've played with it, I've still found it felt too limited for daily use. Maybe I wouldn't find that if I was at the point of buying a feature phone. I can't remember what frustrated me, except that I remember being pleasantly surprised by how much worked, and frustrated by some basic things.
As an example, I was impressed that I could turn on and off a VPN through an app, even though I couldn't see the status of it outside the app. On the other hand, the location permissions felt buggy, and the locations permission changes in Assisted Access mode seemed to mess with the settings in the normal mode too.
Re: Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
#115Possibly related to "showerthoughts", in that removal of stimuli allows for latent realizations to surface.
Or as Arthur Brooks puts it - the shower now is the only place where you dont have your phone on you.
Your comment made me look up "shower phone holder" on Amazon, and I regretted it.
Re: Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
#116The best investment I've made in my mental health and productivity was a dog.
Don't know where I'd be without my executive assistant.
Re: Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
#117Two of the best things for my mental health is maintaining a 7 day moving average of +10k steps and working out every Mon-Fri during lunch time.
Re: Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Especially with a bug. Why think about it when you can just feed a stack trace to AI and wait 2 more minutes?
And then it wants to edit some random upstream file that is not relevant to the task at hand and we should not edit it, so you tell it “and only edit the files affected by this commit”, and wait two more minutes. And now it deletes a test, so you tell it “and don’t delete any tests”, and wait two more minutes. And now it adds logic to disable the core functionality, so now you tell it “and don’t disable the core func…
After a refreshing walk it suddenly occurred to me - I had forgotten to add "make no mistakes".
Re: Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
#119If they made a shower you could walk in, every single problem facing humanity would be solved in three weeks.
Re: Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
#120I wonder what's the difference on creativity between people deeply specialized in a field and those that have invested interest in many different, unrelated fields, like programming, music and beekeeping for instance.