Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.

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  The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work.

  Sivers says the best and most productive periods of his life had disconnection in common, and that long stretches with no internet, phone or people are what make creative work possible. Cherny says deep work is not the point any more and that the skill that matters is switching between many contexts quickly. These are opposite answers to how a person should arrange their working day.

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• A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them IAIsaac Asimovc. 1959creativity
• A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness DDDaniel Dennett8 Jan 2013creativity
• A too-faithful remake of an existing work squanders creative effort that could have made something new. MWMatt Webb4 Sept 2026creativity
• AI progress is jagged: models are becoming superhuman at math and software engineering while remaining far weaker at intuition, creativity, and other forms of human reasoning. NLNathan Lambert10 Sept 2026creativity

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