For me it’s the same as you, but only with “big” ideas that will require a lot of effort to get off the ground.
But I have been able to have a lot of great (to me) breakthroughs by focusing on smaller ideas: melodies or lyrics for a song, ideas for an algorithm or architecture for something I’m working on, perhaps planning a whole talk or presentation.
I believe most of us who are developers do that at work already, so it’s not too hard to extend it to alone time or exercise time.
On the other hand, I had the idea for a business I’m currently starting on one of those walks. So there’s exceptions.
For me it’s the same as you, but only with “big” ideas that will require a lot of effort to get off the ground.
But I have been able to have a lot of great (to me) breakthroughs by focusing on smaller ideas: melodies or lyrics for a song, ideas for an algorithm or architecture for something I’m working on, perhaps planning a whole talk or presentation.
I believe most of us who are developers do that at work already, so it’s not too hard to extend it to alone time or exercise time.
On the other hand, I had the idea for a business I’m currently starting on one of those walks. So there’s exceptions.