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“concentration so intense”
: from page 71 of Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. 
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1990.
“Five years of reporting”
: from page 13 of Gallagher, 
Rapt
.
“I’ll choose my targets with care”
: Ibid., 14.
A Psychological Argument for Depth
For more on the experience sampling method, read the original article here:
Larson, Reed, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. “The Experience Sampling Method.” 
New Directions for
Methodology of Social & Behavioral Science.
15 (1983): 41-56.
You 
can 
also 
find 
a 
short 
summary 
of 
the 
technique 
at 
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method.
“The best moments usually occur”
: from page 3 of Csikszentmihalyi, 
Flow
.
“Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy”
: Ibid., 162.
“jobs should be redesigned”
: Ibid., 157.

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A Philosophical Argument for Depth
“The world used to be”
: from page xi of Dreyfus, Hubert, and Sean Dorrance Kelly. 
All Things Shining:
Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
. New York: Free Press, 2011.
“The Enlightenment’s metaphysical embrace”
: Ibid., 204.
“Because each piece of wood is distinct”
: Ibid., 210.
“is not to 
generate
 meaning”
: Ibid., 209.
“Beautiful code is short and concise”
: from a THNKR interview with Santiago Gonzalez available online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXZWB_dNsw.
“We who cut mere stones”
and