Getting Lost on Reddit Isn't Like Hanging Out With Family

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Likete: I think phenomena, logically, it's a similar kind of experience. You don't feel like you're just playing a game that doesn't require a ton of skill but like playing it with these people that you love. And maybe family aract involve a kind of skill that you're just not aware that you have. But i guess i would say, either there is a swath of things, like, in this fuzzy category of what you might call flow.

David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic paper on the concept of flow. We talk about the features of flow activities – loss of ego, the merging of your awareness with the activity, and autotelic (not what you think) enjoyment. What makes flow activities so rewarding? Do you need to develop skills over many years to experience them? Do easy and natural social interactions count as flow?

Plus as men of pure virtue, we call an audible and choose not to make fun of a recent paper (with a student as lead author). Instead we pilot a not fully formed idea: “Substack Starters." Now that the economy is tanking, do we have any heterodox beliefs that might lead to profitable Substacks?