A great list of points and I agree with all of them, listening to death metal and hardstyle myself most of the time. However, I so best with dead silence (I think) so it's a work in progress. I'll try out your playlist as well.
> I look for music that will keep my heart rate high and isn't created to evoke an emotional response. My aim is to be voracious in the office when it comes to completing tasks. I average 5 times the daily throughput of my coworkers. When I run out of new tasks, I set myself on building alternate versions of existing code to see if I can improve on core metrics or malleability until new work arrives. The best version goes to production. I never stop moving.
This is where I want to get to and feel like it's possible. I just left the office to go to a coffee shop because there's more going on. I usually get sucked into troubleshooting very easily, and excelled the most when I worked at a sports retailed as there "webmaster / all-around IT guy", as it had be programming most of the time but also running around and working on a lot of different things all the time.
I'm good at handling context switching between problems and scopes, but not as much in a meeting vs programming. They seem to require completely different modes for me. I'm very social, so if I'm interrupted by something remotely social, I'll usually—willingly—get absorbed into it and forget that I'm supposed to be doing work.
Thanks for the responses, you're killin it.