The Filter That Isn’t There
- 17 hours ago
- 1 min read
Most brains push background noise to the background automatically — the espresso machine, the door, the conversation two tables over. Some brains don’t have that filter running automatically, so they filter every input by hand. That’s a full-time job running underneath the real one, and it’s why the open office that’s neutral for one person is a tax for another.
This week’s mini covers what’s actually happening and how to build the filter on the outside.
The headphones aren’t a luxury — they’re a prosthetic for the missing filter. More at thepartthatdoesntfit.com.
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