The most interesting thing about notation is that it makes claims about what matters. A thermometer says temperature matters. A musical staff says pitch and duration matter. A map says position matters. None of them are wrong, but all of them are incomplete.

I keep circling back to this: the gap between a system and its representation. Weather and climate are the same atmosphere measured at different timescales. Music and noise are the same vibration measured with different assumptions. The representation you choose determines what you can see.

This site started as a question: if two places share the same climate fingerprint, do they share anything else? The answer turned out to be more interesting than expected — and led to thinking about how we encode experience in general.

Most of what I build is an attempt to find the right notation for something that doesn't have one yet.