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This page includes my current playlists for a variety of genres, for a variety of purposes.
Typically, I sort my music by what I’m going to be doing with it. These are the playlists I’m currently listening to, and I will keep them updated with new content. Otherwise I would not want to continue using them.
If you work at the keyboard, you may want to try listening to my work related playlist.
If you like high energy music for the gym, you may want to try my gym music playlist.
This page is consistent with the moral intent of the website, and I will include thoughts and reflections in addition to the playlists that I’ll be using every day myself.
While studying or working, I was always best able to get focused by:
Listening to music without any lyrics made it possible for me to think in language more clearly. If the music contains lyrics, it’s hard to not alternate between what the musician is saying and what you are thinking yourself, so you tend to lose time.
It does depend on the task, but choosing lyric-free music is a reliable way to improve the chances that you will pay attention. Typically I listen to electronic and/or classical while studying, but it can be any lyric free music that allows you to pay attention.
Former Video Position
For above playlist
For other autobiographical listenings
After March, 29th, 2023
Before March, 29th, 2023
The same comments for the “Study/Work” Playlist apply here.
It is quite easy to focus on work while listening, since there are very few, if any, linguistic distractions, within each track.
It is comprised of some tracks that I listened to in early childhood (Vivaldi’s oboe concertos, for example), and organ works that I really enjoyed in High School, and early in College.
I just began this playlist, so it is very incomplete. I will add more here as I remember other tracks, and as I make more discoveries.
Former Video Position
A long list of pop songs I listen to while hanging out or while doing less vigorous workouts at the gym (elliptical trainer, etc…).
Former Video Position
While at the gym the most important thing to me is what will help me generate the most energy.
These are tracks that currently help me with this.
Former Video Position
For other autobiographical listenings
I am a retired executive, software architect, and consultant, with professional/academic experience in the fields of Moral Philosophy and Ethics, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and more recently, Economics. I am a Pandisciplinarian, and Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.
Articles on this site are eclectic, and draw from content prepared between 1980 and 2024. Topics touch on all of life's categories, and blend them with logical rationality and my own particular system of ethics. The common theme connecting all articles is moral philosophy, even if that is not immediately apparent. Any of my articles that touch on "the good and virtuous life" will be published here. These articles interrelate with my incipient theory of ethics, two decades in preparation. This Book and Journal is the gradual unfolding of that ethic, and my living autobiography, in a collection of individual books that fit into groups of book collections.
This Book and Journal is already one of the largest private websites and writings ever prepared, at nearly 1 million words, greater than 50,000 images and videos, and nearly one terabyte of space utilized. The entire software architecture is of my creation. Issues of the book for sale can be found under featured. These texts are handmade by myself, and are of excellent quality, and constitute the normal issues of my journal that can also be subscribed to. The entire work is a transparent work in progress. Not all is complete, and it will remain in an incomplete state until death.
I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback and conversation with readers. You can reach me at mattanaw@mattanaw.com (site related), cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu (academic related), or christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org (intelligence related), or via the other social media channels listed at the bottom of the site.