Happy Monday to those who celebrate! 😂
This week's DevRel Discussion is a fun one:
What is currently playing in your headphones?
Does what you listen to change according to what you are working on?
Do you ever work in complete silence?
Feel free to drop those playlists in the comments below 🎶 👇
Top comments (15)
Not my preferred approach, but sometimes I get started in silence and get into a really good groove this way.
I think because I have ADHD, I always need some sort of background noise, and the only time I work in complete silence is when I put my headphones on but get distracted while looking for something to listen to and then only realize I'm listening to nothing hours later 😅
My strong preference is to work in silence! White noise (i.e. office chatter, the hum of a fridge, my loud keyboard clacking) is fine but headphones are a no go for me -- I find music to be really distracting! I can't focus on my own thoughts and will end up intently listening to the music (even if there are no lyrics!) and well, not doing my work. Or just get a headache from trying to focus on work, but failing.
I relate to that! I experience that too sometimes, or sometimes anything that isn't white noise is like, too overstimulating. Especially if I am doing something that takes a lot of brain power. That's when I pull out the isochronic tones.
Currently there is nothing playing in my headphones.
What I listen to changes based on my mood. If I'm struggling to concentrate I will put on something to relax my mind. That can involve a bit of figuring out what will do that, like knowing you're hungry but not what you want to eat.
I often work in complete silence. That said, I will often get up, pace around and talk to myself, so "complete" is perhaps over stating it.
Oh boy do I relate to this!
Listening to the sounds of the office at the moment...but before I hit pause, it was this:
Um, I love this playlist 🤘
Awww yeah, this is a fun discussion!
I actually regularly have a series called Music Monday so was tuning into some different suggested tunes.
But one thing I popped on today while doing the dishes is this collaboration between David Byrne and Thievery Corporation — a song called "The Heart's a Lonely Hunter" — hope ya enjoy!
This is a big YES!!!
I'll go first!
For coding: open.spotify.com/album/7aNclGRxTys...
For writing:
open.spotify.com/show/5XQwzc4D7dUS...
For reading the docs/researching:
open.spotify.com/playlist/4jkE9fLO...
Been listening to a lot of Theon Cross's Intra-I lately. It's like an afro-caribbean electronic dance party dominated by a tuba. Not the mix I expected, but the mix I needed 😅.
Definitely. Can't listen to music with vocals when I need to focus. I can ignore the world perhaps too well once I'm into a problem, but hearing words can keep me from getting there. Foreign language music gives a little bit of wiggle room though.
Sure, but in those cases I've probably fallen deep enough into a problem that I would miss most of what's outside my skull anyway.
All great stuff and also I miss working with you 😢
Saaaaaame 😢
I listen to a lot of instrumental music because anything with words disrupts my thought process when I'm writing. These days I'm writing a lot.
Currently listening to Polyphia.
I find complete silence really, really hard to work to. I need the music to "hold my mind together", if you know what I mean.
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