Knitting the Anti-Flow Way of Coding
Chasing Flow while coding is just procrastination with good PR. I spent years trying to make it work. I read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow. I tried to calibrate problem difficulty to my skill level. I waited for the game-like enjoyment to arrive. When it didn’t, I felt like I was doing something wrong — so I’d wait. Wait for the right mood, the right energy, the right moment to begin. You’re not avoiding the work, you tell yourself. You’re preparing to do it properly. ...