📵 Issue #4 — The Last Quiet Place

Jesse Cope
June 03, 2025

The Last Quiet Place

How long has it been since you were truly alone?

Not just physically — but mentally, emotionally, spiritually unbothered?

Today, solitude is rare.
Silence is interrupted.
Even boredom has been optimized out of existence.

We fill empty moments with headlines, emails, feeds, podcasts, notifications, AI replies, calendar syncs, screen taps.

But here's the quiet truth:

No one thinks clearly in a room full of echoes.

And yet, tech keeps trying to fill the space. Suggesting. Pinging. Predicting. Reminding.

If there’s one thing machines can’t tolerate — it’s stillness.
If there’s one thing humans can’t live without — it’s stillness.

So find your last quiet place.
Protect it.
Build from it.

Because your best ideas, your deepest truths, your actual self — all begin where the noise ends.

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
— Albert Camus

A few signals in the noise:

🧘‍♀️ The Case for Boredom – The Atlantic
Why we need unstructured time to think clearly
🎧 Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport on The Ezra Klein Show
A compelling case for solitude in a world that fears it
🌲 One Square Inch of Silence – Quietest place in America
A project to preserve natural silence in Olympic National Park

Where do you go when you need to hear yourself again?

🧠 Stay morehuman.
See you next week.
— morehuman