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Peace & quiet!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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For sure. I never understood people who actually preferred to listen to music while working. They must need background noise, because I put music on to listen to it, which is incompatible with working.
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It depends on the music, for me instrumental music in low volume helps me focus better most because it isolates me from other background noises that would annoy me.
When I want to really listen to music, the volume is way different.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I get it. A budget-conscious version of noise-cancelling headphones!
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Greg Utas wrote: I get it. A budget-conscious version of noise-cancelling headphones!
Not only, I really appretiate the music too. Only noise cancelling would be too boring 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I prefer to have popular music from my playlist on most of the time.
If I'm working on something difficult, I switch to just "New Age" woo-woo music with no words.
If it's REALLY difficult, sometimes I need absolute silence.
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I am most productive when I am motivated.
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The absolute best motivation is having a wife & family to support. Anything else, including personal satisfaction, is secondary.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Productivity comes from motivation. Passion motivates me. If I don't feel very passionate about a certain project, task, I am not as productive as I can be.
My wife can always leave with the kids if she wants. That is not motivation anymore for me. She makes way more money than I do, anyhow. Just saying. 
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Slacker007 wrote: My wife can always leave with the kids if she wants.
1. I'd miss both my wife and my children if they left. 
2. As long as they haven't left, my statement stands.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Before I was able to retire, having a wife to support was definitely enough to make me work even at jobs I hated.
Now that I don't have to work, I'm way more productive because I work only on my own projects that I'm highly motivated to work on even if they never amount to anything financially.
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I'm not quite there yet. I have one daughter doing her National Service, and another still in high school.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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🎶
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations, don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration, never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it to be
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Action creates motivation
I understand how difficult it can be, but getting started is often the hardest part. Once you get started the motivation to get whatever you're busy with working correctly can become the motivation.
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No micromanagement
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... and no actionism ... (I hope this word is right translated ...)
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I think that the word you are looking for is activism, but either way you are right. The amount of cr@p demanded by certain online tools, open-source projects, etc. (they know who they are... ) is astounding.
How are we evil developers supposed to build our Evil Empires without a little evil help? :insane cackle:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I wouldn't crap on Agile specifically, but on any process that doesn't have fairly low overhead.
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I didn't even check off being pointed in the right direction, because I usually felt that I should decide what to work on.
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