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Music works for me, as long as it has no complex lyrics and I don't spent too much time searching for the perfect music to listen for the task at hand.
by dboreham 4y ago
Music works for me, as long as it has no complex lyrics and I don't spent too much time searching for the perfect music to listen for the task at hand.
- sph 4y agoMy coding juice is psytrance music. If my brain is a CPU, psy is a GHz clock, and it's technical and intricate enough to keep me stimulated but not distracted. I am a fan of Infected Mushroom, Talpa, Grouch and the 296h "Psytrance Collection - Full-On, Offbeat & Progressive" playlist on Spotify. But for me music is only for menial tasks. For deep thinking, it's silence and frantically pacing around the house with pen and paper. Can't think if I'm still, one of the reasons a regular cubicle job would annihilate my creativity.
- DocJade 4y ago+1 on Infected Mushroom, they rock!
- sph 4y agoMy first introduction to them was "IM The Supervisor" two decades ago, and still to this day, they keep releasing absolute bangers. I quite like their recent "Head of NASA" album, but my favourite one is "Legend of the Black Shawarma".
- StillBored 4y agoYah, thanks there is some good stuff there. For those that do the techo/trance/electronica. Check out di.fm. A couple decades ago !!!! I wrote a large fraction of one startup's code base listening to them and groove salad on soma.fm. Then when they died during the .com bust, I flipped over to another and repeated the process at a place that survived selling said product for another 20 or so years. Caffine and vocal trance calmed the head down enough to sit in that flow state for 8+ hours a day for weeks on end and just hammer it out.
- DocJade 4y agoMy pick recently has been Eurobeat when programming / writing, but I used to listen to breakcore for focus too.