The Power of Shutting Up
So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
What if we spent less time shouting into the void and being washed over with shouting in return—and more time talking in rooms to those for whom our words are intended?
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
George Prochnik’s explanation for why he wrote In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
there’s this struggle in my head. Is the world ending, or is it a nice day and I’m getting coffee? Obviously, it’s not a binary thing, but living this way is sometimes brain-scrambling. It’s not like the constant doom and gloom of Twitter was making me a better climate activist. Instead I’d be paralyzed. Twitter incentivizes you to live in this con... See more