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I keep looking for flow / zone while working. Any interruption in my workflow will break my "flow state" and will drain my energy quickly. However when I am in the zone, things will flow smoothly, I can look ahead and  spot potential bugs, I will get new ideas, better optimizations, I can write better blog posts or difficult emails - it is like being in a meditative state - I am the happiest at this point - it is a beautiful and calming feeling - a zen like state and it leaves me refreshed and I can keep working at this state the entire day. Ever since I moved to OS X Lion I was always looking for ways to make my workflow smooth - so it fits in my flow and does not disturb it. I kept trying various options till I hit on the best combination to keep me moving without any slow downs or distractions. Here is how I started : Different Spaces / Virtual Desktop  I kept creating a few spaces like the Virtual Desktops I used to have in Ubuntu - a primary development area, communicat...

Why did this not occur to me earlier? Last week I went to Staples to pick a pen. I only write on cheques nowadays and I want to keep my dying handwriting alive as much as possible and for that I want to pick a good pen. There were rows and rows of Pens - all endorsed by Shah Rukh Khan or Katrina Kaif or Amitabh Bachan. If there was a Javed Akhtar or a Vairamathu or an Arundhati Roy ( I don't subscribe to her views but I respect her as a writer ), a Chetan Bhagat ( I am yet to read any of his novels - till then he is eligible to promote pens ) it made sense. Mentally I worked out this equation : (Cost of Ad money to SRK,AB,KK) - ( Manufacturing Cost of a Pen + Reasonable Profit for a pen ) = The after tax-money that is being swindled from my pocket to pay SRK,AB and KK. That did it. I decided not to pick any pen endorsed by any of these celebrities. It made my choice quite easy. When I looked around there was this Sachin 100 Tendulkar - promoting Kaspersky anti virus. Al...