Pop In Your Headphones Late at Night and Start Working
I just finished up a 4 hour late night work blitz and feel much better about my progress on the project now than before I started. I was slowly slipping behind little by little with making the right amount of progress so I decided to just buckle down and catch myself back up. So here I am at 3:18 AM finishing up the night. I’ve really gotten hooked on listening to mellow, ambient music through my headphones as I work. Letting music play through your speakers is OK but it still leaves you vulnerable to audible distractions from the area around you. But if you instead throw on your headphones and play some mellow tunes, you’ll be distraction free and ready to kick some virtual ass. So nerdy.
Anyways, I’ve been listening to Groove Salad over at Somafm.com as I’ve been working. It’s really mellow and slow, most likely just a few beats and melodies, never anything fancy. But it’s great for keeping you focused while also not stealing your attention away, like most popular songs do whether you like it or not. I’m also downloading some ambient tracks so I don’t have to suck up whatever bandwidth I have with streaming tunes. I found a great plugin for Winamp as well that let’s you record each track of a streaming radio station on the web and save them to your computer. I did it earlier and captured about 15 of the songs I had heard on Groove Salad. Pretty Sweet. I’ll explain how to use that tool in another post. Til next time, good night.