“In 2014, I was living in Bogota, Colombia in a neighborhood called La Soledad. The name means ‘loneliness’ or ‘solitude.’ And it was a fitting place for me to live. Loneliness is something I’ve felt much of of my life. And while I feel it sometimes when I’m alone. I feel it much more often when I’m with people.”
“And it’s amazing to me, there’s bacteria living in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, in that huge radiation environment. There’s life that’s living in boiling battery acid around volcanos. There’s life living in ice. There’s life living at the bottom of the ocean around hydrothermal vents, and not just microbial life — great, huge tube worms, and a whole ecosystem.
So I think that part of the lesson there is, we need to stop projecting what we think onto what we don’t yet know.”
What a lovely surprise to see in my Inbox, and what an even lovelier surprise to hear. I feel very honored that someone liked my work enough to include it, let along recite/record it for others to hear.
“A system that’s both complex and tightly coupled is dangerous. The complexity means there will occasionally be surprises. The tight coupling means that there will be no time to deal with the surprises.”
As a quick summary, the subject of Season 1 is the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a popular Baltimore high school senior who disappeared after school one day. Six weeks later, her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed is charged with her murder, and he eventually is found guilty.