# The sound of silence | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog

<https://herman.bearblog.dev/silence/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I loved this post from the creator of Bear blog. 

> I've come to appreciate time spent with nothing but my thoughts. It's something I'd escaped for years. In the modern age it's so easy to always have some kind of entertainment streaming.

One of my common ways to do this is to drive into work with no music, no podcast, just silence. I often find this a form of GTD mind sweep and end up adding a lot of things to lists to follow-up on.

He doesn't specifically use the word solitude in this blog post but that is the thing. 

The combination of mobile devices, always available Internet, and so many algorithms at the ready to shove information at us — solitude is something that we can go a very long time without experiencing. 

That is a loss.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT309: Weekly Thing 309 / Programming, Silence, Drones](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/309/), Notable

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