Prompt: "A song to listen to for when you'd rather be listening to a podcast or some shit"
Selected by Sara
"Resonance"
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Odyssey, 2014
I'd assume there have been over one million words written on PoYB at this point. I also assume somewhere in there is Joe's reasoning for disliking podcasts.
"Resonance" is an electronic kind of lo-fi beat to put on instead of a podcast. Most people I talk to say they listen to podcasts while working. I cannot. I have to pay attention to the words, and half my job is on the phone begging people to do their own work. What I need if I have to concentrate is a lo-fi beat, or some sort of non-vocal background music.
"Resonance" is an electronic kind of lo-fi beat to put on instead of a podcast. Most people I talk to say they listen to podcasts while working. I cannot. I have to pay attention to the words, and half my job is on the phone begging people to do their own work. What I need if I have to concentrate is a lo-fi beat, or some sort of non-vocal background music.
YouTube has hundreds, if not thousands, of "concentration music" playlists. They run for three to 24 hours. It's incredible. Especially since I wear headphones connected to my computer to use Microsoft Teams for calls. It's easy to have a video playing in the background to keep me focused on spreadsheets. Leave the podcasts for driving and cooking!
4 comments:
Let's conservatively say that 10 million words have been spilled on the pages of PoYB, collectively. Let's also conservatively say that 7 million of those words are about how YouTube algorithm lo-fi-beats playlists are a scourge on society.
They are not and you know it. You’re just grumpy because you made a prompt about something you hate and now you have to read about it 7 times!!!
What if you came to the blog tomorrow and there really was a seven-million-word blog post about how much I hate podcasts and YouTube algorithms?
I’d know it was ChatGPT pushing your agenda!
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