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aka. "flow" or "in the zone". Mentioned widely as early as 2000: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/article
by mseebach 16y ago
aka. "flow" or "in the zone". Mentioned widely as early as 2000: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html
- imd 16y agoProbably older, as "hack mode" in the Jargon File: http://people.kldp.org/~eunjea/jargon/index.php?idx=hack-mode.html http://people.kldp.org/~eunjea/jargon/index.php?idx=hack-mod...
- wdewind 16y agoProbably older as the Tao in the Tao etc.
- jacobolus 16y ago2000? Csíkszentmihályi’s book (Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play) which introduced the term flow was published in 1975. Here’s a TED talk by Csíkszentmihályi (2004): http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.htm... Also worth reading: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig, 1974), The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche, 1872)
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoI got a kick out of this passage: > Everybody in Silicon Valley seems to be talking about Charlie, the gourmet cook at Google who used to work for Jerry Garcia. In 2000, Spolsky still felt the need to make the word "Google" a hyperlink to the (then-nascent) search company's website.