RMFifthcircuitAn hour’s thinking while doing something else is often better than an hour’s writing. For me anyway. #Appellatetwitter
And if y'all might indulge me a moment of self-help advice, I've found that my habit of listening to podcasts while cooking or walking is bad for this. Podcasts inhabit the same corner of the mind that works on my problems as a sort of background process. It's like static.
Sometimes I get caught up in the notion that the volume of information I suck in is important, and so the podcasts, but then I think that many of the smartest people who have ever lived had 3 books and no paper and spent a lot of their time thinking rather than gathering.
Aaron Bruhl@RMFifthcircuit I bet this is true but really wish it weren’t. I mean, I want to know how to conjugate verbs in proto-Indo-European *and* be aha-moment creative. No fair.