Calabazas Creek
Creek in Cupertino, Santa Clara County, California. Part of Cupertino.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion | Jenny Odell | subject | Odell notices a creek on Google Maps beside her childhood school, realizes she never registered it, and traces it from Table Mountain to the Bay. |
How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell (2019)
Source: How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion · How to Do Nothing · Readwise highlight
That is the only time that Calabazas Creek had surfaced to the level of my consciousness
- Role: subject
- In the book: Odell notices a creek on Google Maps beside her childhood school, realizes she never registered it, and traces it from Table Mountain to the Bay. In December 2017 she and her friend Josh slip through a chain-link gate and walk the dry creek bed past riprap, flood-control bags, a tunnel under Stevens Creek Boulevard and toward Apple’s campus.
- Why it matters: It is the chapter’s central worked example of re-rendering reality through sustained attention and of collective attention; the argument depends on this specific overlooked suburban creek.