Some of your best thinking happens staring out a bus window. Stop filling every empty minute.

Ideas need slack. Your mind makes connections while it is idling rather than while it is being fed, which is why answers arrive on buses, in showers and halfway up a hill, and never during the fourth hour of scrolling. Filling every gap removes the exact conditions that produce the thinking you keep waiting for.

Leave one bus ride unentertained this week. No podcast, no feed, just the window. It will be dull for a few minutes and then it will not be. Keep something to write with nearby, since what surfaces leaves quickly.