While watching Ben Rockwood’s “DevOps Demystified” video,  I was reminded of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. This is from the publisher and says it pretty well:

“Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life.”

Ben was talking about flow from a different perspective, but not altogether unrelated as the fruits of the current DevOps effort will hopefully lead to more flow of the Mihaly type, especially in our day to day work.