The being a jerk was unconnected to my wife's lack of understanding of flow. I was grumpy and I snapped at her, that's uncool. The point of the post was that

The being a jerk was unconnected to my wife's lack of understanding of flow. I was grumpy and I snapped at her, that's uncool. The point of the post was that I wanted her to understand why it's important to let someone to achieve deep concentration when they are programming. When people don't commonly do activities that require that deep concentration they don't understand why small distractions are a problem. The point is not the understanding of the concept of flow, per se, but connecting it to a geek's ability to output.