Coffee Shop Coding
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Coffee Shop Coding
Coffee Shop Coding is a focus mix imitating a developer's working environment in a modern coffee shop: a base of café atmosphere (dense but unintelligible conversational hum), with keyboard typing all around and the quiet hum of an air conditioner on top. The remote office in San Francisco or Berlin where thousands of developers work daily.
The idea behind the mix rests on the classic work of Mehta, Zhu and Cheema (Journal of Consumer Research, 2012): moderate background noise around 70 dB, exactly like a coffee shop, statistically significantly raises performance on creative tasks. The mechanism is mild attention defocus, which feeds associative thinking. For programming this is especially important: the task demands not just analytics but the ability to jump between abstraction levels, see architectural patterns, find non-trivial solutions. Pure silence can loop you on one approach.
Use this mix for programming (especially creative work such as API design, architecture, refactoring), for design (UX, graphics, typography), for copywriting (articles, marketing copy), for academic writing with a creative component, or for remote developers who find home too quiet. Play at 50 to 60 dB. Pairs with Café Atmosphere (as a kin scene), 86 bpm Drum (if tempo for productivity is needed) and Highway (to amplify the urban context). Not for deep analytics; Deep Work is better for that.
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Ambient sound mixer for relaxation and focus