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When I'm able to achieve flow, I'm supremely happy. You all understand. A few tasks, though, have been serious blockers. When I don't understand my tools, and
by presidentender 12y ago
When I'm able to achieve flow, I'm supremely happy. You all understand.
A few tasks, though, have been serious blockers. When I don't understand my tools, and they fail in undocumented ways, and the relationships between presentation and business logic aren't clear, it actually hurts my feelings. It's as if the machine itself is judging me and reminding me that I'm not good enough.
- 1___1 12y agoDoes anyone have tips to overcome these "blockers"? Stalling after encountering blockers is more detrimental to me than plodding along without achieving flow.
- collyw 12y agoFor me the two are kind of related. I have been working on a side project for the last two or three months. Got going really well for a couple of weeks, and coded quite a lot. Then I got busy with other stuff in my life, so had to leave it for a while. It seems a lot more difficult to get into the state when I haven't been there for a while, while during the good two weeks, I came home from work and managed to get into the state very easily. Enthusiasm for an interesting problem also seems to help me.