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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

John Hodgman

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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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John Kellogg Hodgman
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