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My middle ground for this is walking. It gives me enough input to suppress my habit of entertaining myself using a smartphone, and it also makes staring at a sc
by funous 3y ago
My middle ground for this is walking. It gives me enough input to suppress my habit of entertaining myself using a smartphone, and it also makes staring at a screen quite impractical. But it gives me enough room to just process my thoughts.
- genericacct 3y agoGood choice. As Nietzsche said, never trust a thought you had while sitting down.
- pawelduda 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047477 Looks like experts are divided on this
- kees99 3y agoThere is a commonly-used way to avoid having an open-ended think while walking, too: podcasts.
- Apocryphon 3y agoAnd music, too. It’s underrated what a cultural cognitive shift into multitasking and experiencing the world through an artificial auditory filter that the Walkman, and then the iPod, brought to society even before smartphones.
- yodsanklai 3y agoGood for podcasts though :)