Almost a musing: 9/27/2022
Witnessing, Eiffel Tower, Newfoundland, Theories, Rosh Hashanah, Choices
Happy Tuesday!
Coming at you a day later than usual—I was offline yesterday for Rosh Hashanah.
Happy new year to everyone who celebrates!
Let’s dive into today’s edition.
Quick read
To be the world, witnessing itself
Maybe that’s what all lives were though.
Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries with flashes of wonder and beauty.
Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered.
To be the world, witnessing itself.
Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievement that had made people unhappy. Maybe it was the comparison to the expectations they had in the first place.
Visual
Missing the Scottsdale sunsets. Soon.
Fact
The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer, due to thermal expansion (the iron heating up, the particles gaining kinetic energy, and in-turn taking up more space).
This day in history
168 years ago today, on September 27th 1854, a luxury passenger ship collided with an industrial fishing ship, killing 322 people off the coast of Newfoundland. Desperate crew members took lifeboats from women and children attempting to escape. When one of the ship’s high-ranking officers tried to stop this, the crew killed him.
Tune
Quote
“A theory is like a government—often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and occasionally lethal” // Nassim Taleb
Something to ponder
You can choose your choices, not your outcomes.
Personal update
Unplugged and recharged yesterday for Rosh Hashanah.
Feeling energized for the new year.
Until next time,