We live in a noisy world. Noise disturbs and disorders our cognition. This twofold interruption—disturbance being the shaking of our thoughts and disorder being the consequent disarray, the placing of thoughts where they do not belong—requires a twofold resolution. First, we have to block the noise. Second, we have to learn to inquire. Blocking the …
Silence and Digital Life
Imagine that you have turned on the television, flipped through 150-some odd channels in the span of a minute, turned it off, turned on another television, done the same thing, turned your head slightly, turned yet another television, watched a show for 30 seconds, turned back to the first television and broadcast your own short …