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That's interesting - can you summarise his objections here briefly? I haven't read this book (yet) but I find it hard to see how anyone could make a coherent ar

by lemming 15y ago

That's interesting - can you summarise his objections here briefly? I haven't read this book (yet) but I find it hard to see how anyone could make a coherent argument against flow for programmers. In fact, there's all sorts of literature showing that concentration is incredibly important (c.f. Peopleware).

KevinEldon 15y ago
From page 62: "[The Zone] is the highly focused, tunnel-vision state of consciousness that programmers can get into while they write code. In this state they feel productive. In this stat they feel infallible... Let me be clear about this. You will write more code in the Zone. If you are practicing TDD, you will go around the red/green/refactor loop more quickly. And you will feel a mild euphoria or a sense of conquest. The problem is that you lose some of the big picture while you are in the Zone, so you will likely make decisions that you will later have to go back and reverse. Code written in the Zone may come out faster, but you'll be going back to visit it more."