I'm a musician and I code with music for some reasons: - To avoid a too quiet place, which makes me sleepy; - To avoid been interrupted by general office talk. People often gives up telling me their last thoughts about anything non-work related because I'm on my ear buds; - To time up my "coding breaks". Sometimes you make that "10-minute relaxing from coding" last 30 minutes and from break to break, there goes the day. While listening to music, I can stop coding, listen a good one and get back to work. Buuuuut... I often turn off music to rest my ears and to be available to people around me, otherwise, I wouldn't be in a team.
:doh: do you know what to do with the power you have?