Silence: A Productivity Tool for Those Who Care About Productivity

Productivity—it’s the buzzword of the day. There are productivity apps, productivity books, and productivity podcasts. The productivity gurus shill productivity tools meant to boost your output, your throughput, your everywhere-a-put-put. Those gurus have the answers, and they’ll tell you all about them for $9.99, for a retweet, for a like on Instagram. But how often do you hear these gurus discuss the power of silence?

We live in a world of constant noise—cell phones dinging, computer popup notifications, 24-hou...