I have a paper notebook next to my keyboard entitled 'sleep deprivation induced fever-dreams'. It is an excellent collection and useful tool so I dont let my ideas runaway with my attention.

Often when I return to what I write, about 60% I look back at with the novelty gone, and reassess from a more suitable eye and cross them off the list.

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rdrd 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I get the same whenever I get my daily walk in. Pure unbounded epiphany of ideas and experiments, surging with creativity. I'll revisit them a few days later and for 90% of them my immediate internal response is "that sounds like a really sh*t idea".

	▲	dmoy 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yea 90% is a more realistic fail rate of my 2am ideas which seem great at 2am, but then terrible a few days later with good sleep. If GP is batting almost .400 for insomnia fever ideas, that sounds pretty stellar to me.

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sbinnee 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is a perfect name for a notebook like that. I have one in my head and it never lets me sleep. Maybe I should keep one like yours to dump mine into it. btw 60% is incredible.

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pessimizer 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And, if you're like me, you notice sometimes that you've been rediscovering the same interesting thought over and over again, and should really give it some structure and start building on it, rather than rewriting it again and and again, years apart. That's on the list of things I think that LLMs could help with.

Of course that's also an opportunity to combine the best of all of those iterations together, and still toss out a bunch of paper (or archive a bunch of bits.)