Venkatesh Rao

This is probably the longest I’ve gone without flying in years... last was early February. A trip every few months kinda drove my medium-term life tempo. Airport routine + short break + hotel room is like a life paragraph break. Now it’s one run-on paragraph.

Feels like an asshole thing to say, but my point is the routine of breaks in routine, not the flying around spewing c02 into the upper atmosphere

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I guess people with less traveling work get their paragraph breaks with weekend trips? That’s also shot now since we have an aging cat who requires a lot of care, and pet sitters are dicey now. Without the cat we’d likely be doing a lot of weekending.

Up in the air —> the grounded game It’d be fun to watch a sequel to the George Clooney movie where he plays the same character through Covid

This reminds me of a point about a planetary physics point: habitability requires plate tectonics. Without quakes, planets don’t circulate many of the elements necessary for life. I think phosphorous and some others. You need lifequakes or life becomes uninhabitable

I can feel creativity drying up without airport-hotel phosphorous cycle