Why are flights productive
This Thursday, I flew Indigo from Singapore to Chennai. I had no WiFi and got a lot of (slightly difficult) reading done, such as: Machines of Loving Grace Against the Personal Theory of Agents Paul Graham’s The Top Idea in Your Mind How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Catching up on Simon Willison’s blog Actions from a long pending book cluster summary (The Beginning of Infinity, Conjectures and Refutations, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The Fabric of Reality, and Enlightenment Now). Several tweets, blog posts, and ChatGPT / Claude chats. I also drafted prompts to run later. In a disconnected flight, I’m less distracted because: ...