Knitting the Anti-Flow Way of Coding

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Chasing Flow while coding is just procrastination with good PR.

I spent years trying to make it work. I read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow. I tried to calibrate problem difficulty to my skill level. I waited for the game-like enjoyment to arrive.

When it didn’t, I felt like I was doing something wrong — so I’d wait. Wait for the right mood, the right energy, the right moment to begin. You’re not avoiding the work, you tell yourself. You’re preparing to do it properly.

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Knitting the Anti-Flow Way of Coding