That’s so on point. One time I was stuck on One Reborn from Bloodborne for a whole evening. While I was sleeping I figured out the optimal path to best the Chime Maidens. I woke up and beat the boss in 5 mins.

Very real phenomenon. Happened so many times

It feels like I've written this comment. My experience is very very similar to yours.

Exactly. I realised this a while ago that if I keep having the same day everyday, I'm not going to remember anything about my life. Everything would be insignificant because it happens everyday. It came to my mind when I started to lose track of my week. Did I have pasta on Tuesday or Wednesday? What time did I come home last Thursday? Why can't I distinguish one day from the other? Because everyday is the same. Now I track my days and its much much better.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

- Toni Morrison

All of these situations are fairly complicated. So the best thing to do ( even for a human assistant ) is to ask more questions. That is the best way to get clarification rather than just trying to figure out what the context is. The assistant should be able to ask a simple question: "Are you talking about the London in UK or Ohio?"

The problem is, for some subset of people, the question is ambiguous. Thus we can reduce the problem to finding that subset and asking additional questions only in those cases.

I've always appreciated people who interview like this and on the rare chance that I'm interviewing someone, I focus on maintaining a conversation too.

Really draws the line between a conglomerate firm and a company that actually cares at a personal (sort of) level.