All that said, I think the Tim Ferriss podcast was a miss.I listened about halfway through and was trying to wrap my head around what he was saying about his "10 day retreat of silence", psychedelics, deep dark places, needing a Psych PhD to keep him on the rails, questioning his own sanity and all that.   

I'm not expecting complete silence but any reduction is better than what we have now!!!! 

Silence, laughing, grunting or a HELL NO!  

Replace battery-only operated smoke alarms with units powered by sealed- in, ten-year/long- life batteries with a “silence/hush” feature.2.

Everyone, their aunt and their dog was getting a "stated income" loan to buy dirt or a house they couldn't afford, silencing the inner voice of reason, letting greed take over and hoping for appreciation to take care of being way too overleveraged.

Not even a courtesy hey this is too complicated for us just complete silence.

.  -- "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." -- Vincent Van Gogh(I hate to throw something like this out there and run, but time for other things.

She said she would really like $22,000, but then after a few seconds of silence (I just kept my mouth shut), she said that she would take $20,000.If the property is in good condition, which she said it is, it is worth $52,000.

I listened to the silence on the line and waited for a uh um uh and finally told them you think you could have changed it more to fit your personality, they was so effing embarrassed, I was laughing inside so hard, that is how I got a apology and they did change the ad after it ran 1 week.

The home sold.The thing I found odd, was that when I went to property guys website, the house was still on their site and it said "congratulations on selling your home with property guys"When I phoned property guys to report that the house was sold by a Realtor not property guys there was silence on the other end.