A bath is the best possible think tank.
Floating in warm water is great for fantastic ideas to emerge.
I don't know why.
- Because the body relaxes, muscles and bones can take a break from carrying their daily burden?
- Blood circulates easily, hardly going up or down?
- Water maintains the body temperature?
Whatever.
Ask me for an enterprise resource with maximum return on investment
and my answer will be: the bath.
Give me
a complex algorithm
to solve and your chances are good that the solution is born in warm water.
For the most complex problems I head for the warm water, armed with
a pencil
and a notepad.
The water must remain warm.
That poses a small problem.
The more complex problems take more than half an hour to solve.
The water cools down too much.
Of course I could rise, but that would obliterate the whole benefit of the bath session.
A bath is the place to lay down and stay down.
And tada, here comes a brilliant solution that solves this problem: the frog.
The frog is a small statue, made of pewter, mounted on top of a bathplug.
My love
has brought the amphibian from South Africa.
I have not seen it in the Netherlands yet.
There must be a giant market for it, given all the IT companies in this country.
- Now, when the water gets too cold, I grab the frog's head with my toes.
- It croaks a bit as soon as some cool water goes down the sewer.
- A short while later I use my toes again to push it back.
With a few happy last croaks it retakes its old position.
- While lying down, I add a bit of warm water and the think tank is fully operational again.
This cycle can be repeated endlessly, so even
the
impossible
problems like the travelling salesman
(.../Travelling_salesman_problem)
should be solvable now.
Till
next week,
Nut
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