STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

by Dan Lyons

I mouthed off about the CEO in an impulsive Facebook post

Well girl, who even does that? It’s giving "fuck you, I work at NASA."

A longtime friend is a very bright guy with an Ivy League degree, but compulsive talking has cost him jobs because (a) he could not resist telling his colleagues that they were dimwits; and (b) they usually did not appreciate his candor.

Girl what?

The meds don’t cure you, but they can tamp down the noise in your brain so that you can work on your issues in therapy. For what it’s worth, overtalkers love therapy.

This is a nice note.