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For me it is a interesting consequence of our modern ways of communication which is characterized by being always-online and always expecting immediate response that people turn to giving the new name of "flow-state" to what is essentially just "uninterrupted work".

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The concept of a "flow state" is useful in responding to the retort "So what if you have interruptions?"

The problem is flow state is understood only by those who can reach it.

You can wave business or research articles at them.

https://hbr.org/2014/05/create-a-work-environment-that-foste...

And they’ll throw some random metrics garbage back at you…

Im glad flow state is becoming more talked about but am sure that any new measures to improve it will eventually become corrupted, misunderstood or implemented completely wrong by the hands of the bean counters or some other corporate force

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