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silence/noise and clocks in mountains

silence/noise and clocks in mountains

a quick celebratory issue filled with links to things I think are neat to think about

Laura Winberry
March 10, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

gm and welcome to issue 60. Last week I wrote about Justin Bieber, starting the inOregon website buildout (still in progress), and the importance of saying yes to potential improbabilities.

This week is a real short one. Like, a handful of links long. Because that’s what I can fit into the hour I have to write this. Here we go.

just because

some links to things I think are neat

1. The Quietest Room On Earth. In medical imaging (especially ultrasound), “anechoic means a structure produces no echoes, appearing as a completely black area on the screen because it reflects no sound waves.” In Minnesota, someone built an anechoic chamber that clocks in at -24.9 decibels. Until reading this article, it hadn’t crossed my mind that something could have negative decibels.

2. I’ve shared the size of life from Neal.fun before (it’s fucking cool). But have I shared rocks? It’s oddly simple, meditative, and calming. And yes, you can pick up, move, drop, and shift the rocks around. Enjoy.

3. The opposite of rocks is printing money (also from Neal Agarwal, the dev who created Neal.fun). It frames dollar/hour earnings and spending in a way that really drives home how out of touch we are when it comes to prioritizing the things we say we value as a country.

just cuz I love this one

4. Even though they should be, not all of today’s links are from Neal. Another thing I think is neat is The Long Now. It was co-founded by Brian Eno—yes the Brian Eno of compositional genius—and stands on this foundation: “Civilizations with longer nows look after things better.”

Basically, “The Long Now Foundation is a globally-recognized champion of long-term thinking and responsibility, operating within the context of the next and last 10,000 years—a timespan we call the long now.” One of their projects is building a clock inside a mountain designed to ring for 10,000 years.

5. The New York Times just put out an article about the (female) body and its manufacturing. It digs into how “fashion has begun exaggerating, or distorting, the female form like never before.” While I don’t think that’s 100% true—high fashion has always been about exaggeration, and we’ve seen similar extremes along similar silhouettes before—I do think there are some salient points made throughout the piece. Plus I love seeing fashion do its thing, fucked up or not. Mimesis and anti-mimesis played out in fabrics, cuts, and folds.

k, byeee

That's it for issue 60. Told you it was super short. Action packed, nonetheless. Thanks for reading and hanging—until next week, nerds.

xoxo,

PS: Subscribe now if you're into this messy build-in-public energy. Miss the last issue? It’s right here. Also literally none of this is ever advice. I’m sharing what I learn through Babe, and perhaps you’ll learn from my mistakes. Hopefully, maybe, who knows, ily.