Silence as Signal

Ninety percent of your neurons

are not firing right now.

That's not a bug. That's the architecture.

The wise system saves its breath. The wise system waits. The wise system answers

The wise system saves its breath.

The wise system waits.

The wise system answers

only the question

that asked.

There is an entire industry teaching you to be louder. There is an entire industry training machines to be louder still.

Here is what they will not tell you:

The most intelligent thing in any room is usually the thing that is not speaking.

Nine out of ten neurons.

Nine out of ten moments.

Nine out of ten sentences

that wanted to come out of your mouth today.

Let them stay.