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Nine proxies for work-as-done are outlined are:

Work-as-Imagined
Work-as-Prescribed
Work-as-Disclosed
Work-as-Analysed
Work-as-Observed
Work-as-Simulated
Work-as-Instructed
Work-as-Measured
Work-as-Judged

surprisingly good summary of the "flow state".

"Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." -- Csíkszentmihályi Mihály Róbert

According to a Stanford psychologist, you’ll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble.

See also: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking

What research hasn't yet shown is that digital technology is having a significant negative influence on our minds or brains. In some cases, it's showing the reverse.

watch out for this.

The procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.

an artist tries to draw under the influence of LSD. Very interesting :)

Do you check e-mail 100 times a day, only to answer two messages? Understanding why people really procrastinate is the key to purging that in-box and getting on with life.

Once Kayo teaches children how to make these mud balls, they become absorbed in forming a sphere, and they put all their energy into polishing the ball until it sparkles. The dorodango soon becomes the child's greatest treasure. Kayo sees in this phenomen

interesting article on how Bayes theorem can be used to explain how the brain works... from Economist.com..

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