Anecdotes

[Rain Dance Anecdote]

so I know it's existential but there's some ego part of me that just goes nah you can't have that you know what I mean so I um what if it's co-create what if it's co-created oh no I'm I'm not you can't rationalize it I've got an irrational kind of um irrational response to it but I pushed through that I push through that I push

In March 2019, heavy rains in California led to a brilliant carpet of orange poppies in Walker Canyon, part of a 500,000-acre habitat reserve in the Temescal Mountains southeast of Los Angeles. Run by a state conservation agency, the reserve was mainly a local attraction until a twenty-four-year-old Instagram and YouTube influencer with tens of tho

You’re in Paris on the evening of December 28, 1895. It’s cold and windy, and this lull in the year, between Christmas and New Year’s, feels restless and full of possibilities. You are in the Boulevard des Capucines, a few blocks from the shore of the Seine and the Jardin des Tuileries. You stop in front of the Grand Café, a fashionable meeting spo

the economic incentive is still that you're allowed to externalize the cost. If anyone else externalizes some of their costs and you don't, they beat you economically. Because there's no law forcing you to actually pay the real cost of the thing. We had, we have a really brilliant earth scientist on the team and he is the one that put togeth