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Your eyes burn. Your head aches. You can&rsquo;t focus anymore. You&rsquo;ve been working for 4 hours straight without looking away.</p> https://alamrafiul.com/blogs/zeigarnik-effect/ Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://alamrafiul.com/blogs/zeigarnik-effect/ <p>It&rsquo;s 2 AM. I should be sleeping.</p> <p>Instead, I&rsquo;m lying in bed thinking about that bug I almost fixed. I know exactly where the problem is. I know how to solve it. I just ran out of time.</p> <p>My brain won&rsquo;t let it go.</p> <p>Or that blog post I started writing three days ago. I have the outline. I wrote the intro. But I haven&rsquo;t finished it, and it&rsquo;s nagging at me every time I sit down to work.</p> https://alamrafiul.com/blogs/flow-state/ Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://alamrafiul.com/blogs/flow-state/ <p>It&rsquo;s 2 AM. You&rsquo;ve been coding for six hours straight. You haven&rsquo;t eaten. You forgot to check your phone. You have no idea where the time went.</p> <p>But you just built the most elegant solution you&rsquo;ve ever created. The code is clean, the logic is tight, and everything just&hellip; works.</p> <p>You snap out of it and realize: you were completely immersed. Time disappeared. Effort felt effortless. You were operating at a level you rarely achieve.</p>