What’s wrong with silence? Think of all the thinking you’ll get done. This is why good ideas occur to you in the shower and why you can’t sleep because you’re too busy replaying some argument or rehearsing some hypothetical argument you might have. Your brain needs quiet to process all the stuff that happened, and these days, you never give it a chance. Unless we’re bathing or sleeping, it’s a nonstop stream of new input with no time to process the old.

— Ether in Jason Pargin, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, 2024, Ch. Day 1, p. 54