Laura Occasionally Blogs

For reference:

If the task is....	Listen to...
Super interesting and hard	lyric-free classical music
Pretty interesting	classic rock
Sort of boring	lyrically interesting rock, e.g. The Smiths, or artificially upbeat dance music, e.g. Katy Perry
Boring	musicals, kinda dumb TV e.g. Big Bang Theory, new HIMYM
Super boring	interesting talky podcasts e.g. Radio Lab, semi-familiar reruns of good TV episodes

NEVER listen to silence.

Now all I need is a version of Pandora's auto-shuffle which shifts between my radio stations based on electrodes in my head monitoring how much attention I am paying.