You have the power of the universe right between your ears, no computer necessary. It works in the dark, on the road, while drunk, without power, without money, but it's a blunt sword at first. It takes years of honing and sharpening and exploring before it starts truly being useful.<p>It's often easier to leverage other machines that only tell truths. It allows for laziness. No thought necessary when something else could do it so much faster. But stepping back and thinking for a moment can save a lot of cycles. Maybe not right away, but if you're investing your time, a small amount today can be an awful lot tomorrow. (I wish I was a better writer, as I would write a cool story about computers vs. human brains - where either interpretation would be 'right', as to computers, a human tells its own truths (the preconceptions of a life), where to a human a computer only tells truths.<p>It's easy to take incremental steps. Every single moment you spend on this website is an incremental step. You can see where you were before, you can see where you are now. You can't notice changes when everything is incremental. There is a lot of power in being able to step away, to back off, to explore other parts of your mind than just the one that's connected to the internet. There's a lot of life to live that doesn't involve a computer. And when you (inevitably) come back, you'll notice all the things you could never have noticed if you were on the computer the whole time.<p>Edit: To use a workout analogy - you don't want to only work out your right forearm. You have an entire brain to exercise.