Quiet matters
How to embrace the pleasures of silence in a louder and louder world
Honking horns. Dinging phones. Airplanes, sirens, jackhammers. This is the soundtrack to our lives. And by most measures1, the hubbub produced by street noise, air traffic, and the pinging of our gadgets is on the rise. And this doesn’t begin to account for the informational cacophony or internal din we face.
This acoustic assault …
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