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google security researcher shower thoughts and its discovering 0day

Especially fucked up that the breakthroughs, when they happen, feel effortless and obvious

Getting up and going for a walk is one of life’s great joys

the artists burden baybeeeee

That reminds me I should take a shower

“Trying to sleep and being bombarded with ideas” is another good one

Early on in projects, I often get what I call “visits from the dream king” aka wake up at 3am with an idea and then can’t fall asleep for an hour as my mind has to prod at it for all the strengths, weaknessess and consequences to the rest of the game

Some of my greatest creative breakthroughs have happened while I've been walking my dog and staring at the sky.

I've given up actively debugging sonething late into the night. I just go to sleep. There's literally no point in staying up, you go to sleep, you wake up, you fix the bug in 5 mins. Disgusting.

It fuckin’ sucks bro

My personal least-favorite is when you come up with an even better joke days too late for it to matter and so you angrily write it down in the manuscript just so it can live somewhere and it magically fits. Now I'm mad I didn't think of it sooner for two reasons, dammit.

I don’t think this is annoying. I think it is just how it works and anyone who says otherwise is a pretender.

Listen, I'm not saying using substances for creative purposes is a good idea, but there's a reason people resort to it.

It’s unnerving how much of my best work is done on a bicycle

Mine usually come from sitting down and working on the thing for eight hours straight, which I find practically impossible to do and cannot voluntarily engage in :E

Yeah! I think about this David Lynch quote a lot when it comes to this.

So true! My best ideas never show up when I'm forcing them at the desk. They hit on a walk or in the shower, the second I've stopped trying. Kind of rude how that works!

True but that's also why as a creative it's so important to build "doing nothing time" into your life

The elusive charm of brain activity.

For real, who decided this? And you can't be like "yeah I need to go sit at a cafe for myself for 3 hours, it's part of my process." and if you actually tried to make it part of your process it probably wouldn't work!

My personal unhelpful favorites: “while falling asleep” and “taking a shower”.

Going outside for a smoke used to work so well, I always came back with fresh solutions

At some point my shower is within its right to request a salary

as annoying as making music, we need machines to do it for us, and then make grifters richer

I get my best ideas at 2a while laying in bed when I should be sleeping. (But also, there's a random 5% chance those ideas are just random non-sequiturs from my brain trying to process the day's horrors.)

attempts to make creative breakthrough a process is impossible

Driving home from the store. 🤣🤣😭😭😭

you gotta lay on the floor in silence so your cat sitting on you can jumpstart the creative circuit

showers help too!

this is why I’m a life long advocate and zealot towards the “oasis of time” strategy

Sometimes I call it Background Brain and if I’m thinking too hard about a thing I try to go do something that requires so much attention I can’t possibly think of anything else. Often this involves two pedals. Sometimes bicycle, sometimes drum.

How on earth is your producer supposed to fit "sit around and do nothing" and "have interesting conversations" and "allow your subconscious to work on a complicated problem in the background" into a Jira? For shame!

My Dinner With Andre but there's mounting tension as he realizes how to solve a nagging problem but doesn't want to be rude.

the shower thought is so real

one thing TV and movies get right is how good ideas come from doing literally anything else than trying to think about good ideas

Don’t forget “smoking a shit ton of weed”

Also vacuuming and naps.

I just recently got to one after “doing 7 wrong things over the course of a year.”

I watched a music video I had seen a dozen times, even while working on the same thing, and something just randomly clicked at an image I was already familiar with. Extremely irritating lol

I've had a lot of emails with clients where I go "Sorry but this is the creative process" and it's me throwing a pencil at the ceiling to see if it'll stick because I'm caught in a snag and don't know how to fix it.

Some of what I feel like are my best creative ideas for a project just come to me when I’m driving lmao I feel like part of the creative process is to just have an idea and sit on it long enough waiting for something great to hatch

"washing dishes"

And showers.

And "sitting on the crapper."

This is why boredom is good!

but only in conjunction with doing the direct work, and trying to keep a schedule.

Yeah bc it's a completely different cognition atyle than the one we use to Do Work lol

"How did you solve this?" "I spent far too long making tea"

SO TRUE

you say that but (stoned) showers have genuinely gotten me through the worst creative blocks ever. The trick is to write it down rq while showering because you'll forget 50% of the breakthrough once you turn that water off

”taking a walk”

I have a notebook and pen beside my couch so that, when some Good Idea or Breakthrough hits me while lounging, it is immediately captured So I can return to my lounging

I find that out-of-the-expected stuff tends to work - like commuting to a day job a couple of days a week rather than staring at my computer at home. Shaking up a routine usually shakes something else loose.

One of the best ideas I ever had for my book was in the shower, completely unprompted. Just a literal random showerthought that then went on to define the entire narrative.

The consumption of experiences is the hardest part of the work to explain to non creatives. I usually tell them that it's like mental training for an athlete: not the thing most people see and may look self indulgent but probably the most important part of the work that makes all the difference.

See also: “while driving” and “in the shower”

On "long alone walks" is my hack

It's equally annoying that building the base skills does require consistent effort. gotta rise and grind *and* let the muses come when they will? bullshit.

And walking