The Company of Silence

Essays on solitude, and the thinking that meetings replaced.

We have built a working world with no silence in it, and called the noise progress.

Somewhere in the last few decades, the meeting quietly replaced thinking as the default mode of organizational life. But many of the best answers come from a single mind, working a problem all the way through, alone. A defense of the quiet room, and the time to think in it.

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