Everyone in my department wears a headset.

If you walked through the office, you’d see them everywhere—microphones angled toward faces, voices moving through computer systems, conversations flowing through invisible wires. Modern radio doesn’t have the ringing desk phones it once did. Now everything comes through software, and the headset is the gateway.

Mine usually sits quietly on the corner of the desk.

Not because I dislike the buzz of a busy workplace. Other departments are humming around me, people talking, solving problems, moving the day forward. But when it comes time to write—whether it’s a thirty-second radio script or something a little more reflective—I’ve learned something about myself.

Some of the best work I’ll do today will happen in si...

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