to me it feels like a cost cutting measure needed for Tesla to survive. Elon and his reality distortion field made it look like a touch screen (and no controls) are superior - and all the car companies started mimicking it out of fear to miss out on something
For me that's when I take a shower. I think I take showers way too long, but it's just a thing I enjoy and I think through many topics then. Sometimes I am sad that I cannot take notes during the shower, but if I could, maybe I would be back to square one.
Alternatively... just let the thoughts be. I think writing them down, or even the compulsion of writing them down, sounds like a kind of anxiety in itself - "this is Important, I Must Remember it and Do Something with it as soon as I'm out!"
But if it's important enough you'll remember or it'll come back to you next time you shower. Or not. Either way is fine.
Same for me. The thoughts came when I was taking a shower, or trying to fall asleep. For me, these times did not work for thinking at all, and I just ended up hating and avoiding both, to tell you the truth. The specific "sitting down with myself" time actually helped me to de-stress these other two, so now I'm much calmer when taking a shower, or trying to fall asleep.
But you can (take notes in the shower). I do and it helps me offload the burden of forgetting those shower thoughts.
It has also made me realize that these fleeting thoughts are not as smart as I thought they were.
I think there is some huge difference between learning some bleeding edge ideas vs stuff that -for years - has been repackaged, processed, and optimized for being taught and for making exams out of it.
The thing is, most of Feynman's work (in particular the stuff he received the Nobel prize for) has not really made it into undergraduate courses, despite being decades older and going through a lot more repackaging and processing. But the quantum hall effect is so simple by comparison that it is taught in early QM courses. So the key takeaway here is that there were still pretty low hanging fruits in physics two decades after Feynman won the Nobel.
I forgot which interview that was, but Jim mentioned that some folks are genetically less affected by smoking - and the he did such a test and he seems not to be affected by it and that this was the reason why he didn't stop.
I think the solution to this could be the "web of trust" - as used with PGP. Everyone can sign their images with their private keys. Whether you think those images are trustworthy then depends on who else trusts that. For example, you could have some newspapers verify/trust their journalists camera's. And you could trust your friends camera's etc.
I recently digitized some old family videos, including 20 minutes of watching hovercrafts "starting" and "landing" between Dover and Calais. Crazy machines.
Having had to suffer weekly trips back and forth from my home in Dover to Calais on those monstrosities I can tell you they are the least comfortable form of transport I have ever encountered. Every trip for me was 45 mins of non-stop vomit, regardless of the weather.
I much preferred the boat even though it took several times as long. Plus, the boat had arcade machines.
Loved Calais, though. Don't know how it is now, but in the 80s it was a very quaint little French tourist town.
> Every trip for me was 45 mins of non-stop vomit, regardless of the weather.
March 1976, I did the Calais-Dover hovercraft crossing on a night of bad weather in the Channel. I was fine and actually enjoyed the motion — until the hovercraft got to Dover and had to cross maybe 50 yards of beach to get to the terminal, and then I got queasy from the vibration off the sand.
