Monthly Archives: March 2022
Why I Quit
I sent out the last edition of my Explore and Observe newsletter this weekend. I started it in the summer of 2019 thinking with the goal to share something I’m passionate about with a lot of other people. I saw it as an asset, something that would grow with time and hopefully provide significant benefits…
GPS
I’ve read a fair bit on navigation techniques and books never fail to point out how GPS is bad for your brain. The general story is that spatial navigation exercises the hippocampus, a region of the brain also closely linked with episodic memory, spatial reasoning, and other important functions. An overreliance on GPS means you…
The Wild Places
Another quote from the ever adroit Robert MacFarlane on maps that I’ve been pondering lately. “Before it was a field science, cartography was an art: this was the first thing I had understood. We are now used to regarding cartography as an endeavor of exacting precision, whose ambition is the elimination of subjectivity from the…