Over-simplified review of evidence on impact of background music on creative work: small hit to memory/attention, but makes you happier, so you may do better work on net.
Good collabs have a similar logic. Distracting, coord costs—but making work more fun may be high-order bit.
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This review is a good place to start: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03
See also a nice bibliography here:
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this definitely mirrors my subjective experience. most of my best work has been the result of enjoyable, distractionful collaborations where the team spent hours slacking off or going down rabbit holes together
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"Better work", and possibly even "more work". (Hours of work per day is extremely elastic for me. If work is more engaging, enjoyable, and socially-motivated, I do more of it.)
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I think there's much more to collaboration than making it social and fun. For one, source of peer feedback (though that can be bad too). For another, there's shared working memory space.
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The the collaborative fun might be purposeful because it's such a complex social interaction. Maybe goofing off builds trust that pays off in better feedback?
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I did a similar quick review, came to the same conclusion. Personally I alternate between music/silence, depending on whether I'm thinking broadly or want to just elaborate on a point that's basically written in my head already
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100% true. Happiness is massively underrated in the productivity sphere. The only true productivity "hack" is to work on something you enjoy working on.
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Also depends on _type_ of music. The same music that I absolutely love listening to by itself will make me absolutely exhausted when paired with working. Guess this extends to the collaboration analogy as well
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