Computers definitely have a lot of downsides, but man I can just type so much faster than I can write in a notebook, and the resulting writing is so much easier to process.
A solution I recommend is having a room with an open laptop that has an open document and will not go into sleep mode, and having a “quiet room” with no screens were most of the thinking happens. Or, simple stand up and walk behind the laptop. The important thing is not to be gazing into the screen while thinking. And to maximize distance from any smartphone.
you can’t “think” when your computer is off / when you are away from the computer
Since most of what I think about is policy/cybersecurity/foreign affairs, this is categorically untrue in my case. Depending on a computer to think about those kinds of things is a massive liability, because on those topics the internet is often not on your side. But that might not be the case at all for things like quantitative thinking or software engineering.
Computers definitely have a lot of downsides, but man I can just type so much faster than I can write in a notebook, and the resulting writing is so much easier to process.
A solution I recommend is having a room with an open laptop that has an open document and will not go into sleep mode, and having a “quiet room” with no screens were most of the thinking happens. Or, simple stand up and walk behind the laptop. The important thing is not to be gazing into the screen while thinking. And to maximize distance from any smartphone.
Since most of what I think about is policy/cybersecurity/foreign affairs, this is categorically untrue in my case. Depending on a computer to think about those kinds of things is a massive liability, because on those topics the internet is often not on your side. But that might not be the case at all for things like quantitative thinking or software engineering.