Playing Poker, You Need the Money, Not the Rules

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When i start working, i really do shut out the world. But once i stop, i can let it back in again. The rules of games define what the relevant stimulus stimuli are and exclude everything else as irrelevant. Itme, that's why rock climbing is so freaky to me, y sometimes, rock climbing, because the rules are just like physics.

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?