Same here with regards to needing silence. But I actually need silence. I can't stand music when I need to concentrate or do any work really, even if it's "jus

Same here with regards to needing silence. But I actually need silence. I can't stand music when I need to concentrate or do any work really, even if it's "just" reading over a bug report, triaging it etc. The only time I might use music is when there's a long enough repetitive task where I would just get bored while doing it otherwise. There's not many of those tasks or at least not long enough that spending time finding music for it would be a good use of time. I can probably count on my fingers how many times I've done this. Even white noise is something that I can't stand. I might be able to drown out various types of white noise (like I forgot about the noise from the mini split heater while typing the above paragraph. But as I started thinking about what to write about white noise, both the mini split white noise and the fridge running noise came crashing into my mind and annoyed me. I really like frosty winter, where I can have the fireplace on and turn off the blower. If the fridge is off, that's as close to a perfect moment as I can get to noise wise at home. You hear the cracking of the fireplace but not much else. HVAC at the office? Immensely annoying! Especially if trying to actually concentrate. My mind will easily wander to and concentrate on the HVAC humm. When the heater/fridge turn off, I can actually feel like a weight is lifted off my ears.