“Productivity for Precious Snowflakes“ by @fortelabs has enough insights for many blog posts: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/01/28/productivity-for-precious-snowflakes/ …
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“Snowflakes” is about what I call “rare and delicate cognitive states”—patterns in the flow of mental energy that enable intense creativity.
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Reading a math textbook, proving a theorem, and *being a mathematician* are three different “cognitive modes”—all inaccessible 2 most people
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The “hacker trance” in which you keep an enormously complex structure in mind as you code is another example—collapsed by any interruption.
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Brains didn’t evolve for these things. It’s hard to trick them into doing them. That is why these states are rare and delicate.
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Hm, now that's an interesting take. I take such states as to some extent a repurposing of the faculty for persistence hunting.
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I love this theory
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