Seth's Blog : Silence vs noise
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Seth's Blog : Silence vs noise
To get caught up in a buzzing commentary on how irritating the noise is makes for a noisy relationship with noise.
Martin Laird • A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
.@jesslivingston’s blog post “The Sound of Silence” (2017) perfectly summarizes my frustrations and feelings towards social media.
At some point, you realize there might be diminishing returns to being public which is an unfortunate reality.
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The idea of silence as a commons, as Illich described it here, suggests to a me shared space into which you and I might enter and have just as much of a chance of being heard as anyone else. Technologies that augment the human voice empower those who possess them at the expense of those who do not, setting off the escalatory dynamics that eventuall... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
the fax machine works better if your colleagues have one too.
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
Long work sessions that don’t immediately produce obvious contrails of effort become a source of anxiety—it’s safer to chime in on email threads and “jump on” calls than to put your head down and create a bold new strategy.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.