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I can't do anything productive or mentally taxing on long flights, I don't know if it's the air pressure or premature jetlag or what, but I have a very hard tim
by girzel 8y ago
I can't do anything productive or mentally taxing on long flights, I don't know if it's the air pressure or premature jetlag or what, but I have a very hard time exercising my will. What I do enjoy, though (in addition to the Marvel comics movies – I only watch them on planes) is reading documentation. It's a great time to sit down with an in-depth manual and just soak up information you didn't have before. You don't have to do anything, or make anything, you just learn how something works. Another related activity is reading a bunch of code that I know I'll be working on in the near future. There's something very pleasurable about absorbing a codebase while at the same time completely excusing myself from actually doing anything.
- jason_slack 8y agoI feel you. I can read books and watch movies on a plane and that is about all. My last flight I read about new c++17 features.
- deminature 8y agoI've experienced the same thing. I had planned to spend a 14hr flight gaming and after 4hrs, had neither the ability not will to continue. I'm completely uninformed on the subject, but wondered whether it was the effect of a thinner atmosphere on cognitive abilities.
- nickporter 8y agoSame here. I think it's because most of the time, I have to get up early to catch a flight and I don't get enough sleep.