[colinsane]

“either you’re working or you’re listening to music”.

the progression of my career has looked like this:

- need total quiet: no music, no talking.

- some music is fine: it can’t have lyrics though and it’s best if it’s more textural.

- i can listen to (and process the lyrics to) hip hop and rap and still type.

- i can listen to YouTube educationals and catch about a third of the content.

- i can rewatch movies i’ve seen before and keep up with the important plot parts.

sure, for the parts of the day where i’m working out differential equations or solving circuits and such, i go back to silence. but if 90% of your work is just plumbing values from one place to another… if you’ve progressed anywhere along that sequence i listed then i think it’s naive to take that simple “either/or” view of things.