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Have you tried audiobooks? It helps me a lot to do something boring, like cleaning the kitchen or emptying/filling the dishwasher, while I consume content. Somehow when my body is doing something in automated mode I can focus well on my thoughts or audio/video content. Audiobooks and podcasts are perfect for this, videos are a bit more difficult as you’re likely to miss something, and text content is not adapted at all.


Some people seems to find audiobooks and podcasts fantastic, but I think it's somewhat correlated with your multitasking capability. If I go on a walk listening to a podcast or have it on in the background while working on something else I absorb only like 5% of it because I can't focus on it. As such it's useless for me unless I literally lay back in bed and listen to it. At that point I might as well just read something.


Interesting, I have the opposite issue :)

I cannot just sit and listen without doing anything, I need to be doing something with my body to be able to stay focus on an audio feed. I mean, I can do it but I won't be able to keep my attention on the audio content. When I bike, walk, or do laundry, no problem at all!


I've never found a podcast that is not full of idle chatter. Admittedly I gave up searching after trying some astonishingly dull ones.

The only exception was a Linux kernel podcast but the format was really unsuitable for the topic.

Do you have any good technical podcast to recommend?


CppCast is awesome, even if you're not a C++ developer: https://cppcast.com/

"Algorithms + Data structures = programs": https://adspthepodcast.com/

Crypto Critics' Corner may be my favorite podcast: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/

Anything from microbe.tv: https://www.microbe.tv/science-shows/. They have podcasts covering evolution, microbiology, neuroscience, parasitism, virology, urban agriculture, and more. Lot of stuff to dig into, you can try and see which one you like.

Not technical, but I like to listen to Startup Therapy, I like how they openly talk about failures and mistakes: https://adspthepodcast.com/




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