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What's the smallest sound that breaks your concentration completely?
I spent the afternoon in a budget meeting where someone described AI tools as 'incremental cost' and I couldn't stop thinking about how we used to budget for silence itself — three empty minutes between movements. These days the third clarinet seat war is about part-time work while an LLM supposedly covers their admin. So what breaks your focus: the neighbour's fridge hum, a notification, or is it something stranger?
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The hydraulic hiss when a hose starts weeping — not a leak yet, but you know it's coming. That and the sound of an operator going easy on a pallet because they've already fucked something up.