The Flying Officer

I Believe · Sep 22, 2026 · 13m

Thoughts from the week, in podcast conversation form.Joel: The watch is quiet. Dark. Day and night, you don’t know the difference.Joel: Every twelve hours, you set the clock. If it’s more than a second off, fast or slow, it’s out of spec. And you have to set all three clocks at once.Paige: Three clocks, one second. I hear that and feel like it’s important. I suspect you’re going to tell me it didn’t feel that way.Joel: You’re just setting the clock. It’s standard. Wherever we were in the world, we all had to agree on what time it was.Joel: I was a nuclear weapons officer for twenty-one years…