Pinballistic De-Evolution

Jason Kottke mentioned this post about the economics of pinball, which brings up questions about more than just what our all-time high scores were: Black Knight brought pinball to a new level, literally speaking because it was among the first games with ramps and elevated flippers, but even more importantly because it brought a new…

Flow = Attention deconcentration?

It comes up around nearly every turn. It’s one of the wobbles of life that leads us into such ideas repeatedly: Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process…