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In my experience people often want something on 'in the background' basically at all times. Music, a TV show, sports, a podcast, or a livestream of some sort.
by staindk 4y ago
In my experience people often want something on 'in the background' basically at all times. Music, a TV show, sports, a podcast, or a livestream of some sort.
I'm guessing most of this guy's viewers aren't actively just watching him study, but rather have his stream open on their phone or a second screen while studying "with" the guy. Sounds like a great idea and something like this may have helped me back in the day.
This[1] other comment mentions "body doubling" which sounds about right.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31303234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31303234
- paulryanrogers 4y agoThis does remind me of preferring to do homework in a moderately loud study hall at school instead of at home back in the late 90s. Then doing the same in quieter halls in college. Just feeling that others around me were in a similar situation was a motivator to just get the work done, and stop putting it off.
- Forgeties79 4y agoA discord I’m on has a ping we use called “Office Hours.” Any given day 2-5 of us will be on the general voice channel chatting and working, with people muting/deafening if they need to be heads down or get a call or something. It’s really nice when my work is a bit more rote. As someone with ADHD having a background hum of activity is just really helpful too.