Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
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Re: Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
#22If you're like me, nothing. I need to sit down and find ways to break something to understand how it works. What I do find useful is listening to books on practice or management. Something like The Pragmatic Programmer, The Practice of Programming, and Clean Code. These are high on substance but (relatively) low on examples, so I feel I can still benefit from their insights without having to be in front of a screen.
That's cool. I didn't know there were audio versions of those books.
Re: Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
#23How about the audio book of Deep Work by Cal Newport?
Re: Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
#24Classical music. Learn it. Learn how to listen it, learn to feel it. It is really fun, when you able to understand it. And it helps to move away from current problems to return back from other side afterwards.
Oh... And it will greatly increase interconnectivity of your brains, especially if you would not just listen, but play it too.
It may be not just classical music, but modern styles a way simplier, they lack centuries of development by hundreds of musicians.
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#25Have you checked out itunes u? There you can find actual lectures from too universities recorded. Mostly they require video to get the most of them but i find that just hearing the sound can still be very informative.
Specifically, stanford has some great cs material, and you could also look into andrew ng's machine learning course (i think that one was on coursera).
Re: Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
#26Perhaps rather than audiobooks, you might look into CS lecture videos.. many of these are probably fairly 'listening friendly' and don't require too much visual focus, assuming your preference for audio is due to a driving commute..
other than that, I can only recommend more podcasts; on the systems side, bsdtalk or bsdnow are quite good (obviously bsd focused)
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#27Classical music. Learn it. Learn how to listen it, learn to feel it. It is really fun, when you able to understand it. And it helps to move away from current problems to return back from other side afterwards. Oh... And it will greatly increase interconnectivity of your brains, especially if you would not just listen, but play it too. It may be not just classical music, but modern styles a way simplier, they lack cen…
Can you recommend any minimalist classical music (other than Arvo Part) please? Not bland, it can be sensual like Gnossienne or dramatic as... tabula rasa?
My main issue with most classical music is that they feel too heavy and I feel physically sick.
Re: Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
#28Classical music. Learn it. Learn how to listen it, learn to feel it. It is really fun, when you able to understand it. And it helps to move away from current problems to return back from other side afterwards. Oh... And it will greatly increase interconnectivity of your brains, especially if you would not just listen, but play it too. It may be not just classical music, but modern styles a way simplier, they lack cen…
> Learn it. Learn how to listen it, learn to feel it.
As someone willing to give this a try, where would you suggest one starts?
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#29Just sit. Silently. Give your brain a break -- that might be more helpful than keeping yourself busy.
"Why your brain needs more downtime"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mental-downtime/
Re: Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
#30Classical music. Learn it. Learn how to listen it, learn to feel it. It is really fun, when you able to understand it. And it helps to move away from current problems to return back from other side afterwards. Oh... And it will greatly increase interconnectivity of your brains, especially if you would not just listen, but play it too. It may be not just classical music, but modern styles a way simplier, they lack cen…
Can you recommend any minimalist classical music (other than Arvo Part) please? Not bland, it can be sensual like Gnossienne or dramatic as... tabula rasa? My main issue with most classical music is that they feel too heavy and I feel physically sick.
Not sure what you mean by "heavy", but you might give Vivaldi a try; start with the Four Seasons. It's not minimalist, but it's much lighter than e.g. Beethoven, and not as "serious" as e.g. Bach.