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A gravity anomaly in the Indian Ocean means that a large swath of its waters—an area nearly as large as India itself—has a top level that’s as much as a hundred and six metres lower than the global average.
Our Very Strange Search for “Sea Level”
Over the years I’ve had some very talented students who wrote these big novels in which the water never boiled. They were, essentially, entire books of exposition.
George Saunders • Boiling Water
George Saunders on escalation
Make something wonderful.
everything starts to matter because a context has arisen; expectations arise.
George Saunders • Boiling Water
George Saunders on escalation
The better life you absolutely can build isn’t going to be brought to you by ChatGPT but by your own steady uphill clawing and through careful management of your own expectations. You live here. This is it.
To Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe
"I'm not so much of a technical player myself. I'm probably not that much of an intellectual player, as some other musicians. What I do is... express. That's what I do." — Pharoah Sanders
the world is massively more connected now than it has ever been, naturally groupthink is on the rise
Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/10/24
Ben Clemens from Fangraphs on groupthink in an interconnected world
The quest to find a mean sea level for the whole world was part and parcel of the quest to make the world governable. And thus, von Hardenberg writes, did our idea of sea level as a benchmark emerge from a very specific time and place, becoming intertwined with the colonial project and “a long-held perception of holocenic stability.”
Our Very Strange Search for “Sea Level”
Parts of California’s Central Valley have fallen by nearly thirty feet as the aquifers beneath them have emptied, and areas of Louisiana, robbed of the Mississippi River sediment that once counteracted erosion, are sinking by as much as three-quarters of an inch per year.