{"id":87,"date":"2026-07-21T01:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:28:33","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades of experience . . . \nand beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shades of experience . . . and beyond<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/river-DSC_0621.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" style=\"width:1188px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/river-DSC_0621.jpg 800w, https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/river-DSC_0621-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/river-DSC_0621-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Shades of experience is the doorway to perception, a view into our own experience and how we experience the world from multiple perspectives. I am a philosopher by education and proclivity, but following the flow of life brought me to the world of flowmeters and measurement more than three decades ago. I founded a company, Flow Research, in 1998 and have, with all modesty, become somewhat of a legend of flow in my own right, writing 300+ research studies, 300+ articles, and four books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years I&#8217;ve thought of my work in flow measurement as an extension of my philosophy. Philosophy and flow grew to be inextricably linked. At the same time, I&#8217;ve never stopped pondering the questions I began exploring as a PhD candidate at The Rockefeller University in 1973 to 1975. I have developed a unifying principle and theory of knowledge for six key concepts: viewpoint pluralism, epistemology, the mind\/body problem, Finite Point Geometry, flow measurement and the theory of flow, and shades of experience, On these pages I will be sharing my passions and what I have learned in the course of my life&#8217;s work. I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"159\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jesse-in-Connecticut-long-542x1024-1-159x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" style=\"width:235px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jesse-in-Connecticut-long-542x1024-1-159x300.jpg 159w, https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jesse-in-Connecticut-long-542x1024-1.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jesse Yoder, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shades of experience . . . and beyond Shades of experience is the doorway to perception, a view into our own experience and how we experience the world from multiple perspectives. I am a philosopher by education and proclivity, but following the flow of life brought me to the world of flowmeters and measurement more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadesofexperience.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}