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Flow is when abilities meet challenge. When we are fully engaged in this way, we can lose the sense of time and even the self.
The other end of the spectrum is shitty flow: doomscrolling for 90 minutes without looking up, or scrolling Netflix for 30 minutes without choosing a show. Same effect — fully engaged in the same way as climbing a mountain — much different results.
Our attention continues to be sucked out of us in every turn to the point it has fundamentally altered our behavior. Worse, we amplify the story we tell about the "pursuit of happiness" because of what we are fed by the machine.
Happiness, while nice, isn't long lasting. In fact, the times in our life when we feel most satisfied is often when we are not happy. Grinding through hours of Claude Code, for instance or being terrified on lead while climbing. The day in and day our pursuit of excellence, which in the end, will ironically make us most happy.