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Kenneth Reitz · 27 Jun 2026

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Interrupting a creative flow state to look up an answer destroys the flow that made the question worth asking in the first place.

Their wordsThe questions worth asking arrive in flow, and flow is exactly the state that leaving the session destroys.

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Interrupting a creative flow state to look up an answer destroys the flow that made the question worth asking in the first place.

Their wordsThe questions worth asking arrive in flow, and flow is exactly the state that leaving the session destroys.
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An exceptional collaborator can permanently change what a person believes is possible to attempt, even after that collaboration ends.

Their wordssome collaborators change what you believe is possible to attempt, and then they're gone, and the work you do afterward carries a faint memory of moving faster.

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