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My wife claims that I should charge my company for showering time given the number of times I emerge from the shower and start taking notes on an idea. Usually
by onan_barbarian 15y ago
My wife claims that I should charge my company for showering time given the number of times I emerge from the shower and start taking notes on an idea. Usually a shower follows two enormous cups of coffee.
I'd be curious to see a bit more detail on the physiological basis of this. I do plenty of things where you're able to zone out a bit, but none of them have remotely the same idea-generation rate as being in the shower. Can't help but wonder whether a big pile of warm water all over the body does something to blood flow in some useful way. If I could remember any physiology this would be the point to use an impressive word like vasoconstriction or vasodilation or some such. :-)
- TheSOB88 15y agoI bet it's because you're so relaxed, and your body is being stimulated gently with pleasurable sensations constantly. So that increases the fire rate of all your sensory neurons, which are connected to other neurons. Then those fire, then they fire the ones they're connected to, etc.
- chopsueyar 15y agoWe don't want to know what follows the "two enormous cups of coffee."
- Uhhrrr 15y agoI tend to get ideas just when the caffeine from my morning espresso hits. So it may just be the timing of the shower.
- Mz 15y agoI'd be curious to see a bit more detail on the physiological basis of this. My reply to your remark was placed under the wrong comment (that's what I get for posting at some ungodly hour while suffering insomnia): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2531927 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2531927