By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026But in retrospect, there's probably more I could have done during those hard months to support the people around me. In my defense - in *all* our defenses - that was an unprecedented situation and we all did the best we could. 23/ 180
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026Creative work takes me away from my pain - both physical and emotional - because creative work takes me into a "flow" state. 24/ 1102
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026This useful word comes to us from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who coined the term in the 1960s while he was investigating a seeming paradox: how was it that we modern people had mastered so many of the useful arts and sciences, and yet we seemed no happier than the ancients? 25/ 191
