The Skip Rate Signal: How Your Spotify Habits Predict Tomorrow's Output
I’ve been tracking my digital life for over a decade. Spotify plays, GitHub commits, browser history, location data—everything feeds into a personal database I use to understand what actually drives my productivity. Last week, I stumbled onto something unexpected. I wasn’t looking for a correlation between music and code output. I was testing whether late-night screen time hurt next-day productivity. (It doesn’t—volume matters, not timing.) But in the process, I ran a query on Spotify skip rates. ...