caseo: You don't see people write like this that much any more. He wants to provide a more generaland a broad explanation for what these states have in common. And he does it by interviewing peopleof all things, es quoting them. It's not going to be helpful in studying the phenomenon itself and what makes it so pleasurable,. The conditions that allow you to achieve it.
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?
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