[jacquesm]

While coding ?? I have the room dark, the music off or set to something very quiet that I know well so it won't distract me, if possible the door locked, the phone switched off, the cat tied up in the hallway and everybody else in the house sedated.

How on earth can you listen to an audiobook while coding ? Are you superhuman ?

[dilanj]

Mate, I agree with you, I'd do the same if I was writing kernel code. But do you really need to be that isolated while fixing some CSS or running admin tasks? If it's the case that all your work really is that interesting, you are in a very enviable position.

[jacquesm]

Let's just say that I'm easily distracted. It can take me hours to really get in to something and the slightest disturbance around me will draw me out of whatever it is that I'm doing.

Best hour of the day to work: at night (it's 4:30 am here right now, to give you an idea...).

Not everything that I do is 'interesting', there is plenty of grunt work but even there it helps if you can just dig in and stay underwater for a while rather than to have to get out of it and back in again.

I find it hard to keep datastructures and code in my head for any amount of time when I'm not actively engaged with them.

To add an audio book to that would be unthinkable to me, I could do one or the other, but definitely not both.