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I listen to audiobooks when I’m coding or on the bicycle. But most the books I listen to are kinda of “lesser qualility”. Like I listen to this book called “ste
by chad_strategic 8y ago
I listen to audiobooks when I’m coding or on the bicycle. But most the books I listen to are kinda of “lesser qualility”. Like I listen to this book called “stealing fire”, it kinda of a new take on old business concepts. Had I actually sat down and read the book I would have been annoyed, that I wasted my time with it. But listening to it while doing something else made it seem okay. My retention was decent, there where times when I had to rewind. In the end, that’s fine because the book wasn’t that good.
I read real books on the kindle. Academic and interesting books that I want to completely get absorbed into.
It isn’t said enough but I think that the kindle paper white is one of the best e readers. It does hurt the eyes, it has very connection to the internet so u won’t get distracted. At the end of the day it just works great. (The OS/UX/UI is an little weird)
- liveoneggs 8y agohow can you focus on a book and write code? is it really so mechanical?
- WillPostForFood 8y agowriting tests?
- lucb1e 8y agoDepends on what kind of tests you're writing, but even there I'd say it takes too much concentration to do both. At least if you don't want to miss 50% of the fragment you're listening to.
- LouisSayers 8y agoIt depends what you're coding. Sometimes you're really just following an existing pattern, and doing essentially grunt-work. If it's something new and requires some thought, then nooo lol you're not going to be able to take in any of that audio book, it's just going to be distracting.
- senectus1 8y agoI was going to ask the same. I can listen while drawing, or playing games. but if I'm trying to do something like reading a document or writing a letter/email I find that one of the my "channels" just shuts off... So either I dont register the audio or my reading/writing goes to shit and i find myself stopping or re-reading the same line 15 times....
- chrisweekly 8y agoaudiobooks... while coding or on the bicycle??? One of those makes just no sense at all.
- adtac 8y agoI know right? I find it difficult to focus on programming even if I listen to new music; I mostly just put on instrumental music or stuff I've listened to a lot so that it's subconsciously in the background. Audiobooks are completely unthinkable for me lol.
- stevenwoo 8y agoOn the other hand I've tried listening to audiobooks while on a bicycle and the volume has to be so loud to overcome wind noise (or one has to rewind to replay) that it has to be damaging to hearing so I just listen to music where it doesn't matter if I miss a song or minutes of a song.
- manwe150 8y agoI’ve found that I could wear a bandanna under my helmet to cover my ears (and absorb sweat or keep warm, depending on the season), and significantly reduce the wind noise—specifically so I could listen to audiobooks more comfortably.
- tcgv 8y agoI can't even listen to music (except for instrumental music) while coding without getting distracted, let alone listen to a book.
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- maxxxxx 8y agoI can listen to interviews while coding but not books. Seems coding needs a different part of the brain