Enia Titova on Nostr: I woke up in the dark, got dressed, and drove to a doctor’s appointment in San ...
I woke up in the dark, got dressed, and drove to a doctor’s appointment in San Mateo. The clinic is a mile from my former office so this drive is one I’ve done hundreds of times.
but today it felt... odd. anachronistic.
it’s not that the drive itself is bad: there are way worse places to be than 280 at dawn, inside a warm masterpiece of German engineering.
there’s hardly any traffic. no billboards from enterprise software startups shouting at each other about the superiority of their product offerings.
when I did this commute daily (because there isn’t public transit where I’m going), I treated it like moving meditation.
notice npub1wnr9lewx3j2vughqfs2qre78rad0p0n06f9cec7lc4zkj5raunlsx0w499 (npub1wnr…w499) still asleep in the folds of the hills. admire how the sun paints the trees a golden yellow.
in isolation, it’s not a bad diversion.
but when we *had to* do it daily? each of us inside a small metal box, suffocating the very view we feel privileged to admire?
that’s barbarian.
will we ever do it again?
but today it felt... odd. anachronistic.
it’s not that the drive itself is bad: there are way worse places to be than 280 at dawn, inside a warm masterpiece of German engineering.
there’s hardly any traffic. no billboards from enterprise software startups shouting at each other about the superiority of their product offerings.
when I did this commute daily (because there isn’t public transit where I’m going), I treated it like moving meditation.
notice npub1wnr9lewx3j2vughqfs2qre78rad0p0n06f9cec7lc4zkj5raunlsx0w499 (npub1wnr…w499) still asleep in the folds of the hills. admire how the sun paints the trees a golden yellow.
in isolation, it’s not a bad diversion.
but when we *had to* do it daily? each of us inside a small metal box, suffocating the very view we feel privileged to admire?
that’s barbarian.
will we ever do it again?