Why this matters

The gap between having a thought and writing it down is where most ideas die. Voice closes it to nothing.

The 20-minute experiment

1. 1Next time you're walking, open your phone's voice recorder and talk for three minutes about one problem
2. 2Don't tidy as you go. Repeat yourself. Change your mind out loud
3. 3At your desk, transcribe it (most phones do this automatically) and paste it into Claude with the prompt below
4. 4Keep the one idea you'd forgotten you'd said

This is a raw voice note. Pull out the ideas worth keeping. Ignore the waffle. Give me a short list, in my own words.

• Three minutes recorded away from your desk
• Transcript pasted in
• A short list of ideas returned
• At least one idea you had already forgotten