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Great story. It is interesting how being stranded in some place with a computer and some skills always results in the most fantastic projects.

• lelanthran 10mo ago
  > Great story. It is interesting how being stranded in some place with a computer and some skills always results in the most fantastic projects. TLDR: IME, solitude is required for clear thinking. ----------------------------------- Long ago, I used to drive 600km (one-way) twice a month . Kept it up for 4 years or so. As I drive with the radio off, I had much time alone with my thoughts. Now, I wonder if always reading is having a negative effect: we're constantly bombarded with content all the time, and even though I never doomscroll (no tiktok account, no FB account, no instagram, etc), I think sometimes that enforced solitude might do wonders for my problem-solving. I wonder how people who are on all those social networks ever find time to just ruminate.
  • jacquesm 10mo ago
    Heh, that's a very timely comment. I just drove up and down to Berlin through absolutely crap weather and still figured something out I'd been struggling with for weeks.
• ale42 10mo ago
  Very true. Had a somewhat similar experience while being offline in trains for some hours at a time.