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Just sit. Silently. Give your brain a break -- that might be more helpful than keeping yourself busy.
Just sit. Silently. Give your brain a break -- that might be more helpful than keeping yourself busy.
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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.
Here is a technical podcast I listen to on my commute home: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com I don't listen to every episode, however I feel it's technical breadth and depth is fairly decent.
I like the format of the interviews. The host is not an expert in all the topics that are discussed, but he does a good job asking intelligent questions and making the conversation accessible for software folks with only a casual understanding of a particular topic, say like Bitcoins, containers, etc.
I feel the fact that the author is not an expert actually makes the show more interesting. It's kind of like an ELI5 podcast for practicing software engineers.
I often come away from each episode feeling like I have have learned something useful.
Stick with audiobooks about technical _concepts_ or managerial topics. I'd suggest start with either The Phoenix Project or The Ideal Team Player. From there, follow audible recommendations.
Here is a technical podcast I listen to on my commute home: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com I don't listen to every episode, however I feel it's technical breadth and depth is fairly decent.
I second the recommendation - not too deep to make your commute mentally tiring, but still useful enough that you learn new things (even as starting points). Covers a wide range of topics, from machine learning to infrastructure, which may also help you open your views. A similar one would be: http://www.se-radio.net/ There are also some more tech-specific ones, such as Talk Python to Me, Under the Radar (iOS dev), e…
I think it's partly because the latter has better production values, better pacing and attracts more prominent guests in the field(for instance, Martin Kleppmann, Neha Narkhede, etc.)
I find myself not being able to get through an episode of SE Radio.
Sometimes the O'Reilly Data Show https://www.oreilly.com/topics/oreilly-data-show-podcast get a bit deep. Try a few epsiodes.
I feel for technical subjects, you need to sit down with a pen and paper, concentrate, understand and absorb the material. You can try listen to Coursera or Edx lectures. But to be honest, if you are learning well with that, you are probably not driving safely/likely to miss your stop.
For instance, I've read a lot of about containerization and microservices, but actually listening to interviews with prominent people who work on building these types of things helped me learn much faster about the nuances, tricks and downsides that people don't normally talk about.