The ideas you’re hoping for are hiding in the empty minutes you keep stuffing with scrolling.

Ideas tend to turn up in gaps: the shower, the walk, the wait with nothing to do. Most of those gaps are full now, which is not a moral failing but does carry a cost, because connecting things needs unoccupied time. Nothing is wrong with your imagination; the conditions it runs on have been crowded out.

Leave one daily gap genuinely empty, whether that is a walk, a queue or the first ten minutes awake. Boredom is uncomfortable for about ninety seconds and then becomes something else. Keep a note open, since whatever arrives does so unannounced.