Shelley Searle’s Reviews > How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy > Status Update

By spending too much time on social media and chained to the news cycle, he says, "[y]ou are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. In other peoples reality: for others, not for yourself. You are creating a cacophony in which it is impossible to hear your own voice, whether it's yourself youre thinking about or anything else.” William Deresiewicz

As Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who records natural soundscapes, put it: “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything."