u/FarFari92

I was looking for ways to use my time more efficiently by listening to English audiobooks while doing daily tasks. But since I’m also into productivity concepts, I started wondering:

Is splitting attention actually worth the learning outcomes?

So I asked Scholar GPT to bring science-backed arguments for both sides, and the conclusion was more nuanced than I expected.

Apparently, passive listening is not useless. Research suggests that even background exposure helps your brain adapt to:

• pronunciation,
• rhythm,
• speech segmentation,
• common sentence patterns,
• faster spoken English.

So if you listen while doing low-attention tasks like:

• walking,
• cleaning,
• commuting,
• cooking,
• gym cardio,

…you’ll probably gain some listening familiarity over time.

But there’s also strong evidence against it when multitasking becomes cognitively demanding.

Studies on cognitive load and attention show that language comprehension competes for working memory. So if you’re:

• studying,
• coding,
• writing,
• solving problems,
• doing mentally demanding work,

…the audio-book often turns into background noise, and performance in both tasks may suffer.

The most evidence-based conclusion seemed to be:

• Passive listening is better than no exposure.
• Active listening is far more effective.
• Passive listening works best during repetitive, low-focus tasks.

I’m curious about your experiences with this. Have you noticed meaningful improvements from passive listening, or did it mostly feel like background noise?

I help businesses gather, organize, and analyze market data and turn messy information into clean, actionable insights.

What I can do for you:

• Compile competitor analysis and pricing research
• Build structured databases from online sources
• Research SaaS markets, product trends, and industry landscapes
• Organize findings into clean spreadsheets or reports
• Summarize research into clear, readable documents

My background:

• Master's student in IT Management / Business Intelligence
• 6 years of content and research writing experience
• Familiar with SQL, Excel, and data organization tools
• Fast, detail-oriented, and communicative

Rate: $12/hour

Availability: Immediate

Drop a comment or DM me with your project details.

During the past few weeks, I’ve helped my clients tackle tasks they had been procrastinating on for a long time. I can help you too.

We’ll start with an initial conversation to figure out what matters most to you right now. Then, we’ll set aside a daily 2–3 hour time block. I’ll be online with you during that time every day, while you work on your task and send me progress reports at 25-minute intervals.

By the end of the week, you’ll be surprised and happy with how much you’ve accomplished.

Don’t hesitate to DM me.

During the past few weeks, I’ve helped my clients tackle tasks they had been procrastinating on for a long time. I can help you too.

We’ll start with an initial conversation to figure out what matters most to you right now. Then, we’ll set aside a daily 2–3 hour time block. I’ll be online with you during that time every day, while you work on your task and send me progress reports at 25-minute intervals.

By the end of the week, you’ll be surprised and happy with how much you’ve accomplished.

Don’t hesitate to DM me.

During the past few weeks, I’ve helped my clients tackle tasks they had been procrastinating on for a long time. I can help you too.

We’ll start with an initial conversation to figure out what matters most to you right now. Then, we’ll set aside a daily 2–3 hour time block. I’ll be online with you during that time every day, while you work on your task and send me progress reports at 25-minute intervals.

By the end of the week, you’ll be surprised and happy with how much you’ve accomplished.

Don’t hesitate to DM me.

During the past few weeks, I’ve helped my clients tackle tasks they had been procrastinating on for a long time. I can help you too.

We’ll start with an initial conversation to figure out what matters most to you right now. Then, we’ll set aside a daily 2–3 hour time block. I’ll be online with you during that time every day, while you work on your task and send me progress reports at 25-minute intervals.

By the end of the week, you’ll be surprised and happy with how much you’ve accomplished.

Don’t hesitate to DM me.

A few years ago, I created a google sheets personal finance dashboard with 3 innovative approaches:

• showing the number of days you can keep the standard of your life based on your monthly income and spendings
• organizing spendings not just by category, but also by priority: showing how much do you spend a month on unncessary stuff, how much do you wast money etc
• tracking the time spent on each income stream to find the one ones with better value per hour you spend on doing the job (mainly useful for those who have different income sources)

But before I can manage to market it, the AI and strong apps emerged and the concept of using google sheets somehow died. Recently, I came back to it and I thought maybe I can give it away and see if ppl find it interesting enought to become a real app. So, I'm sharing a copy of my dashboard here and you can have it for free. I'll appreciate any feedback from ppl who use it and support if you find it interesting/ innovative enough to be turned into an app.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EZ3xsenEgaOhxMSYUcpgIwn-LhzWxmVNR3COwNtGyyU/copy

Well, as we all know, AI has killed job market for juniors, "for now". Companies only look for mid-level/ senior specialists able to handle AI to get proper results, which seems fine, again, "for now".

But I assume, in the long-run the world will face skilled labor force shortage. How a junior can become a senior without proper work experience? And in my opinion, someone who predicts this future and starts to create a kind of their "skilled worker reservoir" will benefit at that time. I can think of recruting platform that doesn't just recruites, finds potential talents, and provides them with mentorship to become mid-level. But it needs to have some short-term benefits for the platform to be able to survive.

What ideas/ business models comes to your mind to do this? Is it even based on correct logic? Or I'm missing something?

Hello everybody

I'm recently learning SQL Server. I really enjoy writing querries. But I'm a little bit unsure about what's going to happen after fully learning it? I have experience with front-end and WordPress development, and on those cases, everything seemed obvious from day1: You create web pages and as you gain experience, you'll be able to create more complicated and appealing ones, being able to work for clients.

But what about SQL? I'm not a full-time job person and I don't think I'll get hired after making progress. So, what products a typical SQL professional produces independently if they don't work as part of a team or company?

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts and experiences

If you constantly set goals but struggle to follow through, I can help with it.

What I Offer:
Daily Follow Up Sessions: Every day, we'll chat about what you've got done and what you're going to do the next day. We'll explore the barriers keeping your from getting things done, and refine your plans based on your performance to bridge the gap between what you do and what you want to do.

Don't hesitate to contact. The first conversation is totally free.

If you constantly set goals but struggle to follow through, I can help with it.

What I Offer:
Daily Follow Up Sessions: Every day, we'll chat about what you've got done and what you're going to do the next day. We'll explore the barriers keeping your from getting things done, and refine your plans based on your performance to bridge the gap between what you do and what you want to do.

Don't hesitate to contact. The first conversation is totally free.

It's impossible for you to complain about how it's difficult to do your tasks as an ADHDer and at least someone doesn't tell you to break it into chunks! I was always pissed off with this advice. Because, I felt breaking the tasks into pieces itself was more overwhelming than actually doing it!

Recently I came up with an idea that helped me a little bit and might help you too. I'm not an expert, though I roughly know one problem with ADHD is the working memory's dysfunction. We enjoy doing a task, we have solid intentions to do it, and are serious about our plans. But the reason we can't bring ourselves to do it is that we can't actually remember how it felt like doing it; so, our brain doesn't generate the momentum we need to start.

Noticing this helped me to become friend with the idea of breaking the tasks into pieces. Because, I realized it's not just a cliche planning practice. It actually helps us to remember what's inside a task. It's a kind of irony, we need this more than others and at the same time, it's harder for us to do. But we need to find some ways to do it.

So far, I came up with a few ideas to do it:

• bare minimum starts: even if we can't remember the whole process of doing the task at once, we can remember how the initial steps look like. Like opening the laptop (even with an intention other than doing the task we want to do), opening our book not for reading but just for looking at pictures, etc.
• taking notes while doing a task: most of us experience this that the beginning is the hardest part. Once we start, everything goes smoothly. So, when this happens, we can seize the moment and take notes on what we're actually doing and how do we feel about it. We can organize this notes later for breaking our tasks into mini-tasks.

I'll be glad to read your experiences on this and the way you manage to break your tasks.

If you constantly set goals but struggle to follow through, I can help with it.

I normally impress people with my ideas on personal growth, planning and understanding how our mind works when facing different tasks. I find ways to get things done in a friction-less manner. Most of my ideas are genuinely mine, not mere repetitions of productivity books.

What I Offer:
Daily Follow Up Sessions: Every day, we'll chat about what you've got done and what you're going to do the next day. We'll explore the barriers and refine your plans based on your performance to bridge the gap between what you do and what you want to do.

Don't hesitate to contact. The first conversation is totally free.

If you constantly set goals but struggle to follow through, I can help with it.

I normally impress people with my ideas on personal growth, planning and understanding how our mind works when facing different tasks. I find ways to get things done in a friction-less manner. Most of my ideas are genuinely mine, not mere repetitions of productivity books.

What I Offer:
Daily Follow Up Sessions: Every day, we'll chat about what you've got done and what you're going to do the next day. We'll explore the barriers and refine your plans based on your performance to bridge the gap between what you do and what you want to do.

Don't hesitate to contact. The first conversation is totally free.

If you constantly set goals but struggle to follow through, I can help with it.

I normally impress people with my ideas on personal growth, planning and understanding how our mind works when facing different tasks. I find ways to get things done in a friction-less manner. Most of my ideas are genuinely mine, not mere repetitions of productivity books.

What I Offer:
Daily Follow Up Sessions: Every day, we'll chat about what you've got done and what you're going to do the next day. We'll explore the barriers and refine your plans based on your performance to bridge the gap between what you do and what you want to do.

Don't hesitate to contact. The first conversation is totally free.