I always have my headphones on while I am working.
And the best part is that I can switch based on my mood/work.
Here are the ones that I have curated for you.
Feel free to add to the list.
1/ Brain.fm
Music for the 🧠 as they like to call it.
This one’s paid but IMO well worth the money. There’s research to back me up. Works well when I need to dive deep into a problem.
Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation & sleep.
2/ Spotify
Now that Spotify is here in India, I am really happy that I can listen to playlists like the one below.
Also love that I can use default music player controls on my keyboard ⏭
- Deep Focus 💯
- The Social Network Soundtrack
- All-Nighter Spotify playlist
- Pure Focus playlist
- This is Nils Frahm
- Lo-Fi Beats
- Lowkey Tech
- Paris Cafe Jazz
- House is a Feeling
- Brain Food
- lofi hip hop music - beats to relax/study to (Samir)
- The Confluence: Santoor & Piano (Samir)
- Deep India - Deep Forest & Rahul Sharma (Samir)
- Songs to test the headphones with (Tejas)
- Programming playlist (Tejas)
3/ Youtube
It has much more options than Spotify but I inadvertently tend to consume videos which are not that productive 😅
- ColdFusion Mixtape! - Perfect for Study/Work 💯
- lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to (Samir)
- Jazz - Fkj Live at La Fée Electricité, Paris (Divyendu)
- Saturn by Sleeping at Last
- Passages by Philip Glass + Ravi Shankar
- Canto Ostinato by Simeon Ten Holt
- Don Quixote - Tchaikovsky
- Jason Lewis - Mind Amend (Example 1, Example 2) 💯
Btw did you know there was a desktop app for Youtube 🤔
4/ Apple Music
For everybody who ❤️ all things Apple!
- WWDC 20 Coding Energy
- WWDC 20 Coding Focus
- Work + Ambient
- Pure Focus
- Pure Ambient
- Study Beats
- Acoustic Hits
5/ Other notable mentions
📻 RadioTunes
🔂 Listen to one song on repeat. It sounds crazy but many people do swear by it.
💌 Flowstate newsletter on Substack
🗞️ Organized Noise - Daily house/techno playlist on Substack