anyone who spends any amount of time working near programmers, or gives a shit about their programmer coworkers should get this. If not, give them a copy of "Fl

anyone who spends any amount of time working near programmers, or gives a shit about their programmer coworkers should get this. If not, give them a copy of "Flow" and PG's essay on makers and managers and enlighten them. Also, be aware that flow applies to all your non programmer friends too. I usually have to train people to respect the signal of the headphones. The most common compromise I've struck is that we IM each other first and ask "are you in flow?" before diving in. It's acceptable culturally to say "yes-ping me in 1 hour." etc. But maybe that's because I've been in tech for over a decade now and so many people trained me right. :)