Michael Levin

And it keeps your brain off of the linear, like logical, like careful train of thought enough to release it so that you can ideate a little more while your hands are busy.

And mentally, right?

So I, because I'm not walking around thinking, okay, let's see.

So for this experiment, we got to, you know, I got to get this piece of equipment and this, like that goes away.

And it's like, okay, what's the lighting and what's the, what am I looking at?

And during that time, when you're not thinking about that other stuff, then, then they say, well, yeah, I got to get it.

I got a notebook and I'm like, look, this is, this is what we need to do.

So that, that kind of stuff.

I tend to leave myself a lot of voicemails because as I'm walking around, I'm like, oh man, this idea.

And so I'll just call my office and leave myself a voicemail for later to transcribe.

I don't have a good enough memory to remember any of these things.

And so what I keep is a mind map.

So I have an enormous mind map.

one piece of it hangs in my, in my lab so that people can see like, these are the ideas.

This is how they link together.

Here's everybody's project.

I'm working on this.

How the hell does this attach to everybody else?

So they can track it.

The thing that hangs in the lab is about nine feet wide.