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The Brave Cookie Monster - Brendan Eich

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Flow Mode

When you're doing something like that in real time, I used to do gymnastics too and tumbling. They say there's a half second leg in your reaction time. So we're actually processing reality out of sync a half second. You are not consciously thinking through what you're doing. But it can't just be your limbs. It isn't reflex arcs that don't go to your brain. Your brain is there. And when I did JavaScript, I kind of plugged in, went into flow mode and just cranked out the front end for the language. Then I think I had less experience on area that was called the back end of the run - which was what people called the

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