Messaging apps like Slack are designed in a way to keep us hanging on every message, which means any deep thinking process is continuously disrupted. We’re kept constantly in a state of task switching or trying to repair our working memory. These apps also reinforce a work culture that demands immediate response at the expense of #flow.
Finally on the theme of #flow, I photographed the #waterfall#SgwdGwladus from the other bank and was able to get much closer to it and so I used the same method to give different impressions of gushing or a freeze frame.
Today a friend suggested that it might be easier for me to write on the keyboard instead with a pen. Normally I'm trying to keep away from the screen (my day job is programming), but maybe I could find a good flow with a well designed application?
Colorado River losing vast amounts of water due to warming climate, study finds
Roughly half the decline in the river’s flow has been caused by higher temperatures
#Climate#change is driving the #aridification of the Southwest. In multiple studies, researchers have estimated that by mid-century, the river’s #average#flow could decline by 30% or more below the average of the past century.
Already, the river’s flow has shrunk about 20% since 2000 during a megadrought that scientists have described as the driest 22-year period in the American West in at least 1,200 years
Where Flow-based Programming stands after 50 years since its introduction. What problems it solves today. And what problems it can solve tomorrow for broader Software Engineering industry
That feeling when you're in the flow so hard that the moment you think "I'm going to put on some death metal and really focus on this bit right here" you realize you've had death metal playing full blast for the past hour already. #dev#metal#flow#focus
another challenging morning #meditation, this time up on my workplace roofdeck:
caffeinated, head full of attractive #fantasy, pulled repeatedly out of restful #focus.
after ~10min some words entered my noisy head: ‘i can’t manage my concentration—i can—i am.’
process not result.
then relaxed into the difficulty; the rest of that time felt like surfing, or floating down a crowded sidewalk: effortful, mental muscles working, grateful acceptance of chaotic oscillation.
i guess this is only about the specific ways i’m wound too tight, but:
when i’m really connecting with a process, the work output seems consistently to be provision: a feeling of the world (world-version, experience, sense/surround assemblage, etc.) offering something, awareness of the offer, noticing the ongoing (moments of) choice to accept it or not.
‘in #flow’ i feel it intensely: NOT self-conscious, but self/world-conscious. aware of the moment on offer. imaginative #affordance.
the ‘#muse’ or ‘source’ of creativity, which the player becomes aware of when in a creative #flow state—cf. carlos santana’s ‘hose’ metaphor—is actually the player’s own flow of #consciousness as seen from ‘outside’ after unbinding from the ‘monkey mind.’ hence the meditative, tight-loose, densely peaceful quality such experiences have.
you ‘touch the source’ and clearly see, not some transcendent other place/object, but what you’re really doing
OC First post here, let's get this off the ground! Love the Ultralight
The state of Flow-based Programming (2022) (blog.kodigy.com)
Where Flow-based Programming stands after 50 years since its introduction. What problems it solves today. And what problems it can solve tomorrow for broader Software Engineering industry