[Karunamon]

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You have no idea how much I wish that first one would work for me. We've got a very dysfunctional 30 minutes status meeting (legacy of a long-since moved on manager) every freakin' morning which could just as easily be handled via email.

The first hour of each day is basically wasted - the first half hour nobody's going to start something because they'll get interrupted half an hour later, and the meeting itself accomplishes nothing except sapping any motivation the participants might have arrived to work with.

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Music is usually my go-to. The Music For Programming series is very nice for the purpose, very calm, ambient type stuff.

http://musicforprogramming.net