Flow

How games & flow make the grind fun — How can we enjoy work? I can safely say that I’ve found a trade where I like what I do, where I enjoy working and building stuff (with code). How? The joy I find in my work (and side hustles) is something that I both build and chose. In “Reality…

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~Samuel Beckett Introduction The autotelic athletic question “What do you think of your team?” Amos Alonzo Stagg, longtime head football coach at the University of Chicago, was asked after winning the college football national championship. Unflinchingly, he replied…

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. ~Voltaire Tonight, I’m short on content, but not short on questions. Thus, a three-section post on the open curiosities that come to mind. Crystallizing Experiences Studied by Dr. Howard Gardner, crystallizing experiences are, “are defined as those which involve remarkable…

(thoughts from Nov 2021) Being spontaneous for a whole trip doesn’t make sense to it. It’s also an act of privilege :) In India, I’d have to save up for half a year and plan well in advance to get my approvals to go to a first world country. Imagine…

Recently, in my Angular projects, I had to implement authorization using OAuth2 protocol to access API. It’s something quite common nowadays. So, let’s have a look. What is exactly OAuth2 ? « OAuth » : Open Authorization 2 : version 2 :-) OAuth2 is a standard protocol to manage authorization granted to an application to…

In this blog post we are going to learn different ways to create Kotlin Flow with examples. We’re going to cover — 4 basic ways to create a Flow 1. flowOf() 2. asFlow() 3. flow{} 4. MutableStateFlow & MutableSharedFlow() And some other less used but useful ways: 5. ChannelFlow 6…

Everyone wants to be in flow: unaware of time, creativity pulsing through us like electricity. Transcendent. This is an article about increasing creative productivity not through sheer will power, not through hustle, not through painful creative workouts. This is about increasing creativity through engineered conditions for flow. Any time you…