An example of a bad flow state is I’ll get locked in a Wikipedia hole. It might start on reading up on a topic I need for work (e.g. a class of algorithms), and

An example of a bad flow state is I’ll get locked in a Wikipedia hole. It might start on reading up on a topic I need for work (e.g. a class of algorithms), and then next thing I know I’m 6 degrees away from the topic I was supposed to be studying reading about a 16th century battle or whatever.