Ask HN: What percentage of time are you wearing headphones/earbuds?
Ever since noise-cancelling headphones became popular and affordable, I've noticed myself becoming pretty incessantly attached to them. Probably 75% of my awake time I am wearing them and/or listening to something, and while I don't think this is terribly abnormal, I'm almost certain it's been terrible for my mental capacity.Beyond that I have running theory that noise cancelling contributes to...