The Long Game 165: The Pathologization Pandemic, Wandering Minds, Advice Doesn't Work, Rare Earths
đ€ Superintelligence Isnât Enough, Instagram, Job Applications, B2B Sales, Electrolytes, and Much More!
Hi there, itâs Mehdi Yacoubi, co-founder at Mirage Metrics, and this is The Long Game Newsletter. To receive it in your inbox, subscribe here:
In this episode, we explore:
The pathologization pandemic
A wandering mind is unhappy
Why advice doesnât work
Rare earth metals
Instagram is unchic
Letâs dive in!
đ„ Health
đ The Pathologization Pandemic
I saw Chris Williamsonâs video about his âtoxin-induced mental health challengesâ and a few interesting tweets about it. Naturally, I found this to be the perfect topic for this weekâs TLG.
First, I want to say I like Chris. I used to watch his content a few years ago, heâs a smart guy and his content high quality.
In the video, Chris talks very openly about how his health completely crashed. He was someone who took his health seriously, IVs, peptides, strict routines, he wasnât careless. But he started feeling worse and couldnât figure out why. Later, he found out he had Lyme disease, gut infections, parasites, and then discovered the house he was living in was full of toxic mold. That combination ruined him.
His energy disappeared, his brain stopped working properly, he had tinnitus, brain fog, memory slips, and trouble sleeping. He kept doing the podcast, but behind the scenes, he was barely functioning.
He tried everything, treatments, detoxes, endless tests, and even going to Mexico to filter his blood. But this was the first time in his life when trying harder didnât help.
That hit him hard because his whole mindset was built on effort and discipline.
Now this is what happened and Chrisâs perspective on it, but as someone who also had episodes like these (1 year of chronic fatigue syndrome after a virus infection, and 3 years of chronic back pain), I think there is another explanation for what is happening to Chris.
Watching Chris talk about his health, I couldnât help thinking about something beyond Lyme or mold. Yes, heâs dealing with real infections and toxins. But thereâs another layer many people are facing today: a nervous system that has been pushed too hard, for too long.
Chris lived at full speed. Podcast, business, travel, constant output. Always switched on. Even with perfect (are they really perfect?) routines, IVs, peptides, biohacks, the body can only handle so much pressure. Eventually, the system burns out. Your brain stops working properly. You lose energy. You canât sleep. Everything feels overwhelming. Then something like mold or Lyme shows up and finishes the job.
Itâs easy to blame the illness. But a lot of this starts earlier, in the mind and nervous system. Dr Sarno called it the mindbody syndrome. Not an imaginary illness, but the body breaking down under stored stress and emotions that never had space to be felt. The body says what the mind refuses to say.
Most people try to heal by adding more: more supplements, more treatments, more hacks. But maybe the real question for Chris isnât what else he can take, but what he needs to let go of.
Why the constant pressure? What happens if he stops pushing? What emotion is he working so hard to outrun?
You can detox mold. You can kill infections. But if the nervous system stays in fight-or-flight, healing never truly lands. The body still thinks itâs under attack.
If I could speak to him, I wouldnât ask about protocols. Iâd ask why he feels he must always do more. And what part of himself he wonât allow to rest.
Until that is faced, no treatment will feel like enough.
No amount of biohacking will resolve a mindbody syndrome.Pair with: The Pathologization Pandemic
But why would so many people confuse sadness for sickness? For a start, itâs human nature to look for single causes to complex problems. The physicianâs habit of ascribing all of a patientâs symptoms to just one diagnosis led to the formulation of Hickamâs dictum, which states: âA man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases.â Likewise, itâs tempting to look for a neat and simple reason for people blaming their troubles on a single disorder, but to do so would be to make the same mistake as them. Pathologization can have as many causes as it damn well pleases.
Also pair with: Chronic insomnia, mindbody, and doctors might not understand it
I had chronic insomnia for 5 years. During that time, I saw every type of doctor imaginable â general practitioners, sleep specialists, endocrinologists, psychiatrists, psychologists. Not one helped. The pills made my sleep worse, the endocrinologist invented and diagnosed me with a bipolar-adjacent disorder, and the CBT therapist literally told me to âtry to feel tired.â In the end, the insomnia was spiritual in origin (manifesting physically) and no medical treatment could have touched it. Yet every one of these âexpertsâ was certain they had the solution.
đ± Wellness
đ A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
I think we likely all experienced this at one point or another. Itâs interesting to read the framing of this paper.
Youâre not depressed, you just lost your quest.Unlike other animals, human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them, contemplating events that happened in the past, that might happen in the future, or will never happen at all. Indeed, âstimulus-independent thoughtâ or âmind wanderingâ appears to be the brainâs default mode of operation (1â3). Although this ability is a remarkable evolutionary achievement that allows people to learn, reason, and plan, it may have an emotional cost. Many philosophical and religious traditions teach that happiness is to be found by living in the moment, and practitioners are trained to resist mind wandering âto be here now.â These traditions suggest that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Are they right?
Laboratory experiments have revealed a great deal about the cognitive and neural bases of mind wandering (3, 7), but little about its emotional consequences in everyday life. The most reliable method for investigating real-world emotion is experience sampling, which involves contacting people as they go about their lives and asking them to report their thoughts, feelings, and actions at that moment. Unfortunately, collecting real-time reports from large numbers of people as they go about their daily lives is so cumbersome and expensive that experience sampling has rarely been used to investigate the relationship between mind wandering and happiness and has always been limited to very small samples.
In conclusion, a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.
Pair with: Why Arenât Smart People Happier
⊠but also with: If youâre so smart, why arenât you happy?
If youâre so smart, why arenât you happy? I absolutely believe that is true. The beauty of being mentally high functioning in our society is that you can trade it for almost anything. If youâre smart, you can figure out how to be healthy within your genetic constraints and how to be wealthy within your environmental constraints.
If youâre smart, you can figure out how to be happy within your biological constraints. But your biological constraints are a lot larger than you might think.
The dynamic range of happiness is quite large
If youâve ever gotten drunk or achieved an altered state of mind on psychedelic drugs or through meditation, breathing or other hypnotic techniques, you have experienced brief moments of happiness beyond what you feel on a typical day.
Of course, some of this is a fake, pleasure-driven happiness. But thereâs truth to it; otherwise, you wouldnât desire that state.
Achieving these brief states of happiness can show you how dynamic your range isâand that range can be quite large.
How do you nudge yourself in that direction on a perpetual basis, as opposed to visiting it by stunning your mind into submission and silence?
đ§ Better Thinking
đ Why Advice Doesnât Work
If youâre in the business of giving advice, you might find this interesting.
It lists many reasons why your pieces of advice might not lead to the result youâd expect:
1. The advice might simply be bad or mismatched
It could be wrong, naive, or based on incomplete understanding of the personâs real situation.
Even good-sounding advice can clash with hidden constraints the receiver has.
2. Advice is too shallow compared to the lived experience it represents
Short phrases like âmove your feet upâ in climbing hide dozens of subtle steps learned only through practice.
Good advice can be true, but useless without the deep skills behind it.
3. People donât actually understand the advice
We often hear advice without truly grasping what it implies.
The mind filters out what it doesnât want to hear or doesnât find immediately obvious.
4. People actively misunderstand advice because they donât want to follow it
When following the advice would be painful (ending a relationship, making a change), the mind invents reasons to treat the situation as âdifferentâ or âexceptional.â
5. They donât believe it will work (lack of inner conviction)
Even if someone nods along, deep down they may not believe success is possible for them, so they never act.
6. What works for one person may not work for another
People are different in temperament, values, emotional wiring.
Advice carries an implicit âthis worked for me,â but humans vary more than we realize.
7. Some advice requires too much willpower or effort
Easy advice (buy headphones, air purifier) gets followed.
Hard advice (start running, change habits) is ignored because energy cost is high.
8. People donât actually want advice, they want validation, conversation, or guardrails
They ask for âadviceâ to get reassurance, to talk, or to check if disaster is certain, not to change their plan.
9. Weâre trapped inside our own heads
Overthinking, emotional overload, or closeness to the problem blinds us.
Even obvious solutions canât be seen from the inside.
10. When advice does work, we stop calling it advice
âDonât drink pond waterâ isnât seen as advice, itâs obvious.
Once something becomes internalized, it stops being treated as external wisdom.
11. The same problem that makes advice necessary blocks its use
The traits that cause someoneâs struggle (procrastination, avoidance, confusion) are the same traits that stop them from applying the advice that would fix it.
Pair with: Advice that actually worked for me, and Advice for 10-20 year olds, and (importantly) also Advice expires faster than milk now.
đ€ AI Updates
đŠŸ Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
This is a very interesting new paper:
Large language model applications, such as agents and domain-specific reasoning systems, are increasingly relying on context adaptation. Instead of updating model weights, they modify inputs through instructions, strategies, or evidence. Prior approaches have improved usability, but they suffer from two recurring issues: brevity bias, which strips away domain insights in favor of overly short summaries, and context collapse, where repeated rewriting gradually erodes important details over time.
Building on the concept of adaptive memory introduced by Dynamic Cheatsheet, we propose ACE (Agentic Context Engineering), a framework that treats context as an evolving playbook. Rather than overwriting or compressing context, ACE accumulates, refines, and organizes strategies through a modular process of generation, reflection, and curation. This structured and incremental approach preserves detailed knowledge and scales effectively with long-context models, avoiding the collapse seen in earlier methods.
Across both agent-oriented and domain-specific benchmarks, ACE optimizes context usage in offline settings, such as system prompts, and in online settings, such as agent memory. It consistently outperforms strong baselines, achieving gains of 10.6 percent in agent tasks and 8.6 percent in financial tasks, while also reducing adaptation latency and rollout cost. Remarkably, ACE achieves these improvements without requiring labeled supervision, instead relying on natural execution feedback.
On the AppWorld leaderboard, ACE matches the performance of top-ranked production-level agents on overall averages and surpasses them on the more challenging test split, despite using a smaller open-source model. These results suggest that comprehensive, evolving contexts enable scalable, efficient, and self-improving LLM systems with minimal overhead.
This paper shows a new way to make AI better without retraining it. Instead of changing the modelâs weights, it changes the context the model uses. The model keeps a growing notebook of what works and what fails, updating it over time. It learns through use, not through training.
The results are impressive. It beats stronger models like GPT-4 in tasks using only context, with lower cost and no labelled data. It also challenges the idea that prompts should be short. These models improve when they have rich, detailed context they can build on.
If this approach scales, AI may not need fine-tuning. It will improve by updating its own memory, becoming self-tuned rather than retrained.
Pair with: Agents 2.0: From Shallow Loops to Deep Agents
âĄïž Startup Stuff
đŒ Job Applications in the Era of AI Slop
As new AI tools are popping up every week âhelpingâ applicants batch apply to hundreds of jobs, I think your best bet a getting the role you want is to do the opposite.
Show a few teams youâre interested in working with that you really care.
I liked how DHH put it: be the David Goggins of candidates when you apply for a role. Send a real message, do deep research into the company and the founders, send some code/ small app related to what they do, send a Loom of yourselfâŠ
Go the extra mile when all the other candidates send their CV and a small, non-customized note.
If you do this, your competition wonât be able to keep up with the quality of your application. Of course, this will take more time, but applying to 100 job offers and hoping for the best is not a better strategy.
In other words: give a shit about your work and about the company.
The second (giving a shit about work in general) is equally important. Itâs possible to fake fervor in the course of an interview and say the right things to convince us of enthusiasm for Scale, but the proof is in the pudding. If someone is applying to Scale and has never been deeply obsessed about something before, then itâs a bad bet to think Scale will be the first. I have a particular line of questioning around this:
Whatâs the hardest youâve ever worked on something?
How many hours were you working a week?
Why did you work so hard? Why did you care?
When were you the most unmotivated in your life?
Whatâs the thing youâre the most proud of?
Do you think it was worth it?
For an obsessed person, itâs always worth it.
While weâre talking hiring, weâre currently hiring forward-deployed engineers and software/AI engineers in Paris, Barcelona and Casablanca. Drop me a note if you or someone you know could be interested.
Pair with: How to hire
Focus on the right ways to source candidates.
Basically, this boils down to âuse your personal networks moreâ. By at least a 10x margin, the best candidate sources Iâve ever seen are friends and friends of friends. Even if you donât think you can get these people, go after the best ones relentlessly. If it works out 5% of the time, itâs still well worth it.
All the best startups I know manage to hire like this for much longer than one would think possible. Most bad startups make excuses for not doing this.
When you hire someone, as soon as youâre sure sheâs a star you should sit her down and wring out of her the names of everyone that you should try to hire. You may have to work pretty hard at this.
đ What I Read
đ€ Superintelligence Isnât Enough
This piece perfectly puts an idea Iâve been having in my mind for years, especially when I hear people talking about how AGI will kill all jobs and that it will be able to do literally everything.
The reason for this skepticism is that the binding constraint on economic growth today is simply not insufficient intelligence or cognitive ability. Even absent smart machines, human beings today collectively have more cognitive ability than at any prior point in human history. The binding constraint has to do with how that intelligence interacts with the material world in a myriad of ways. Economic growth depends ultimately on the ability to build real objects in the real world. A smart machine may be able to come up with a plan for a better mousetrap, but to actually fabricate that mousetrap requires capabilities beyond any machineâs control.
At a macro level, we are already running into the constraint of too many dollars chasing too little stuff. As environmental doomsayers have been arguing for years, there are ultimately material limits to growth. The one most obviously in front of us is global warming, but there are many others. The planet does not have the resources to sustain 8 billion people with an American standard of living; indeed, at 10 percent annual growth, China, America, and Europe would soon run out of everything, including agricultural land, water, energy, and almost everything else.
At a micro level, there is a problem translating the work of smart machines into material goods. Product innovation has always depended on a prolonged iterative process whereby a designer tries out ideas, fails, and modifies the design in response. No amount of superintelligence will ever be sufficient to simulate the behavior of material objects under the conditions of the existing material world, as generations of builders and tinkerers know.
Finally, there is the political and social level. I attended a presentation by an engineer at a leading AI firm who suggested that in the near future, AGI would be able to, for example, provide clean drinking water to struggling cities in the developing world.
The problem is that the failure to provide such basic services in poor countries is not lack of knowledge of what a good municipal water system looks like. The problem is political and social. People do not want to pay the higher costs engendered by a new water system; unionized workers in the municipal water authority do not want to lose their jobs to automation; business owners do not want the disruption that will occur as the streets are torn up for new pipes; the finance minister believes there are other priorities and canât raise taxes to pay for a new system. In many poor countries, there are water mafias that buy water where it is cheap, and resell it at extortionate prices. They are armed and ready to use violence if you get in their way.
Having worked with real companies in real operations in the real world, I 100% agree with this perspective.
Pair with: AI isnât replacing radiologists
Radiology is a field optimized for human replacement, where digital inputs, pattern recognition tasks, and clear benchmarks predominate. In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton â computer scientist and Turing Award winner â declared that âpeople should stop training radiologists nowâ. If the most extreme predictions about the effect of AI on employment and wages were true, then radiology should be the canary in the coal mine.
But demand for human labor is higher than ever. In 2025, American diagnostic radiology residency programs offered a record 1,208 positions across all radiology specialties, a four percent increase from 2024, and the fieldâs vacancy rates are at all-time highs. In 2025, radiology was the second-highest-paid medical specialty in the country, with an average income of $520,000, over 48 percent higher than the average salary in 2015.
đźđč City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
I was in Venice last week. I absolutely loved it and it greatly surpassed my expectations. I thought it was going to be so overly touristic that it would render it impossible to enjoy, but I was wrong, at least in October, outside of the centre, it was very calm and enjoyable.
A bit about the book:
From Muddy Lagoon to Maritime Power
Venice starts as a community of refugees living on marshy islands. With no land or army, they turn to the sea. Trade becomes their weapon. They master shipbuilding, commerce, and diplomacy, turning their location into an advantage between East and West.
Crusades & Constantinople (The Turning Point)
The Fourth Crusade (1204) is a key moment. Venice agrees to transport crusaders, but when things fall apart, they redirect the crusade to Constantinople. The city is sacked, and Venice takes enormous wealth, trade privileges, and territories. This marks the beginning of Venice as a real empire of ports, trading posts, and naval bases.
War with Genoa â Battle for the Mediterranean
Veniceâs main rival is Genoa. For decades, they have fought brutal sea wars to control trade routes. These wars are epicâpiracy, naval battles, blockades. Venice eventually wins, securing dominance over the Mediterranean trade and becoming the richest city in Europe.
Wealth, Trade & Ruthless Pragmatism
Venice is not a chivalric kingdomâitâs run by merchants. Profit comes first. They trade with both Christians and Muslims. They are highly organized, disciplined, and secretive. The Venetian ducat becomes the most trusted currency in the world.
The Ottoman Threat & Decline
Eventually, the rise of the Ottoman Empire shifts power. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 weakened Veniceâs position. Then, the final blow: the Portuguese discover the sea route around Africa to India. Venice can no longer control the spice trade. The age of Atlantic empires begins, and Veniceâs golden age ends.
đšđł Breakneck: Chinaâs Quest to Engineer the Future
China acts like an âengineering stateâ that solves problems with big physical projects. The U.S. is a âlawyerly societyâ that relies on rules, lawsuits, and process, which often block action. This is not a total theory, just a lens to make sense of recent events.
The idea of the lawyerly society became obvious when I returned to the U.S. in 2023. The Paul Tsai China Center (as I say in my acknowledgments) was the best possible place to write this book, not only because itâs so supportive, but also because it set me inside the Yale Law School. Elite law schools, now and in the past, fashion the easiest path for the ambitions to step into the top ranks of the American government. The dominance of lawyers in the American elite has helped transmute the United States into a litigious vetocracy. I believe that America cannot remain a great power if it is so committed to a system that works well mostly for the wealthy and well-connected.
Pair with: The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis
đ± instagram is unchic
As Iâve already said many times, deleting instagram is one of the best things I did a few years ago. I think people donât fully realize how it changes their prism on reality. It conditions how so many people live. They have to do things for their stories, theyâre constantly bombarded with what friends and old acquaintances are doing. Why on earth do you need to see the Thailand trip of someone you have not seen for 10 years?!
After deactivating my account for good, and especially because I study abroad, I was concerned that I would lose track of my friends and be essentially stuck in an isolation bubble: turns out deactivating was what made the bubble burst. I stopped being up to date with the lives of people I hadnât interacted with since middle school. My knowledge of what my classmates did during summer break relied on personal retellings instead of curated photo dumps. Because the algorithm used to constantly show me their updates, I believed some people were much more present in my life than they actually were: after deleting Instagram, I realised I barely saw them at all. Finally, and maybe most importantly, I stopped experiencing FOMO: since I am unaware of everything else that is going on at any given time, I enjoy what I choose to do. I now see the way I am spending my time not as one of multiple alternatives, but as a unique moment I can experience as I most want to.
Pair with: The Class Politics of the Instagram Face and Itâs More Than Just âInstagram Faceâ
Recently, Iâve been thinking a lot about the rise of that same, social media-inspired look among young women known as âInstagram Faceâ. Itâs that face made up of sculpted cheekbones, big lips, fox eyes and a deep tan; a chimera of sexy, supermodel features. Itâs not a natural face. Itâs cartoonish, assembled artificially through cosmetics, filters, editing apps and even surgeries, as if girls are endlessly chasing the beauty ideal of their childhoods: an IMVU avatar, or a Bratz doll. Something perfect, inanimate, soulless.
But itâs more than just Instagram Face. Iâve also noticed the rise of a distinct Instagram Personality: girls with the same mannerisms, opinions, sense of humour. They wear the same clothes, use the same hair accessories, have the same home decor. They love the same films, the same music, the same celebrities. Even the language they use is alike: they all use the same therapy talk, like they had the same trauma, saw the same psychiatrist, are on the same healing journey. They even have the same tone, those same affectations, a cadence in their voice so characteristic of influencers that whenever I hear it Iâm conditioned to think Iâm about to be asked to subscribe and hit the notification bell!
đ Brain Food
â Rare Earths
As China tightens its exports of rare earth metals, I thought it was a good time to share a few resources on the topic.
âRareâ or Just Hard to Get? The Chemistry Behind the Myth
Few catchphrases in science are as misleading as ârare earths.â The label itself evokes visions of obscure, vanishing metals, but the real twist in the story is that most of them arenât rare at all. Back in the age of early chemistry, elements like cerium and lanthanum earned their ârareâ reputation not because they hid deep within the planet, but because they never appeared alone and defied easy isolation. Today, we know that cerium is more abundant than copper, and that many other rare earthsâlike lanthanum and neodymiumâare sprinkled generously throughout Earthâs minerals, often more so than metals we mine every day for industry and technology.
Behind the Hype: Miningâs True Challenge
For all their âscarcity,â what sets rare earths apart isnât their geologic riddle, but a chemical one. Unlike gold or platinum, which appear in concentrated, mineable veins, rare earth elements are enmeshed together and tangled with lookalike neighbors. This resemblance, rooted in almost indistinguishable chemical properties, transforms extraction into a daunting puzzle. Mining rare earths is not a thrilling treasure hunt but a demanding chemical marathonâseparations require sequences of reactions, caustic acids, and generate toxic waste, all to tease out differences so small they might be called trivial in any other context. The real bottleneck is not supply, but the process.
This was also a good one:
What can we learn from the latest Rare Earths crisis?
Though they are rarely visible on the surface, the chances are youâve already interacted with a rare earth element today. If you have a pair of earbuds, the little ones that fit in your ears (and, for that matter, most over-ear headphones too), their speakers are powered by neodymium iron boron magnets. That satisfying snap as you close the case of Airbuds or a modern tablet or laptop? Neodymium magnets. The motors that help robots move their limbs, or raise or lower the windows in a car? Again, motors with neodymium magnets.
Remove these rare earths from the equation and while civilisation wouldnât grind to a halt, everything would certainly become slower and less efficient. Jet engines would be less efficient. Electric cars ditto.
The funny thing about rare earths, however, is for all that everyone vaguely appreciates that theyâre incredibly important, the market is actually surprisingly small. According to Rob West, who regular readers will know is one of the smartest analysts out there on the energy transition, the total size of the Rare Earth oxide market in 2024 was âabout the same as the North American avocado marketâ(!)
This is a function of two things. First, the fact that you actually donât need all that much neodymium or scandium or yttrium in your special alloys. A sprinkling will sometimes do. Second, prices have been getting lower and lower in recent years. And that, in large part, a function of something else: massive Chinese dominance of the market.
This is something youâll already be familiar with but itâs worth trotting the numbers out al the same. China is responsible for roughly 70 per cent of all rare earth mining and roughly 91 per cent of all finished rare earth metal production. Those neodymium magnets inside your earphones? There is a good chance they came from the soil of Inner Mongolia, the site of Chinaâs biggest rare earth mine.
Despite their name, rare earths are not very rare. They are to be found in most corners of the world. There are enormous reserves under the ground in Brazil, in India, in Australia and America - as well, of course, as China. But refining rare earths is hard. Very hard - far harder than nearly every other metal refining. By some accounts it takes as many as 100 processes to extract the metals from their ores. It takes enormous amounts of energy along the way. The waste products produced along the way are nasty - nastier than the kind of thing you tend to find at most copper or iron mines (and that stuff isnât exactly very palatable).
Pair with: Whatâs Happening at Spruce Pine...?
Note:
Expect more mining content in TLG as Iâm focusing on a good amount of my time on this lately, both with Mirage Metrics and with Mirage Exploration.
Also, thanks to all the readers who responded last week on this theme of what weâre doing at Mirage Exploration. If you have friends I should talk to, or if youâre in the space, Iâd love to chat! Just reply to this email.
đ„ What Iâm Watching
đ§ââïž How to make doing hard things easier than scrolling youtube
This might help you : )
đ The Sales Playbook for Founders
This is a great playbook that I used successfully initially at Mirage.
đ§ The Tool of the Week
đ Electrolites
The only supplement I canât live with right now is these electrolytes. Not necessarily this brand specifically, but because Iâm cutting, my overall food intake is significantly lower, this the amount of electrolytes I get from eating is less. Without electrolytes, I get insane cramps.
I also take a lot of this magnesium, and it helps me get better sleep and better recovery in the gym.
đȘ Quote Iâm Pondering
No one talks about how peaceful life gets when youâre obsessed. 12 hour days feel effortless. Week days and weekends blend together.
You wake up, log on, and by the time you check the clock itâs time to sleep again. Runners call it the high. Athletes call it the zone.
Writers call it flow. Whatever it is, itâs beautiful.
đ EndNote
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