Your easiest life upgrade has been on mute 1. Protect your quiet 2. Hear how it's said 3. Choose your soundtrack Which one do you need most?

Wrote this article on Medium. If you love hit songs and know who Ace Decade is, you’ll enjoy it.medium.com/@scott_15595/the-…

A podcast host spends an hour a week in your ears. Most of your friends don't get that much time. That's the power of audio. No screen. Just a voice you trust.

220 audiobooks. 1,723 hours. (Not counting the 2-3 years on my old account 😅) So what's yours? The audiobook, or the narrator, you'd follow anywhere?

“Pay attention to the sounds around you. They're doing more to shape your mood, your thoughts, and your decisions than you realize.”

Somewhere in this picture is my AirPods case. 🔎 Dropped it down the gap in a hotel elevator after a morning at NPR talking about the power of audio. Nearly lost the one piece of tech I can't live without. 😂 Hotel staff saved the day! Could you live without your AirPods?

A shark has been stuck in a Busan canal for almost 4 weeks. Over a million people came to see her. Experts think boat noise may be part of why she can't find the exit. We came to look. The problem was what she could hear.

“You can't control all the noise around you. But you can choose what you listen to.”

5 Everyday Problems You Never Thought to Blame on Sound scottsimonelli.substack.com/…

5 things you're not "hearing" that can change your life. scottsimonelli.substack.com/…

5 Everyday Problems You Never Thought to Blame on Sound scottsimonelli.substack.com/…

We track steps, calories, sleep, heart rate, screen time. Almost nobody tracks what their ears absorb all day. Try 1 thing today: eat in silence, run to a beat, sit quietly for 2 minutes, or wait 1 beat before replying. Listening might be a health habit too.

The songs stay young. We don't. What's your peak year for music? Research says our most meaningful music peaks around 17, and our favorite songs often come from around 14. Mine: senior year of high school through freshman year of college. What's yours?

Are you ears first or eyes first?

We Test the Child. Who Tests the School? scottsimonelli.substack.com/…

Writing my book made me start asking a weird question: What sound tells you you're home before your eyes confirm it? Mine's the fridge. Yours?