The Silence and the Loneliness

I’ve been writing about silence lately, first in this piece entitled “Silence,” and then in my bi-monthly Tiny Letter.(Sign up here to read the Tiny Letter piece.) Today, I’m continuing the exploration here. Enjoy.

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We’ve beaten this assumption to death–the world is noisier today than it’s ever been. You’ve heard the supporting arguments–we have the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the endless stream of opinions on social media, the streaming bits of naked data from naked people across this gr...