One of my biggest concerns has been the proliferation of noise in my life, and its effect on my attention span and ability to perform deep work. How addicted are we to constant distractions? How difficult do we find reading long pieces of text? I think podcasts are a good example of this. I started to get into it when I was in high school -- starting with Hello Internet as a way to entertain myself while walking or doing mindless tasks. But, how soon that became a constant habit. I subvocalize, so I need to listen to my own internal monologue to think. I realized that if I kept letting other voices into my head, I could not hear my own.

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