> These two types of work were first identified, to my knowledge, by the programmer and essayist Paul Graham. Repeating my comment from https://news.ycombinato

> These two types of work were first identified, to my knowledge, by the programmer and essayist Paul Graham. Repeating my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38693398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38693398 when this came up last month, DeMarco and Lister described flow state in their 1987 book "Peopleware: Productive projects and teams". Here's the relevant text from the later 2nd edition: https://archive.org/details/peoplewareproduc00dema_0/page/62 https://archive.org/details/peoplewareproduc00dema_0/page/62 ("Brain Time vs. Body Time"). 571 other comments in last month's discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691468