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This distinction between ambiguous and incidental friction is brilliant. Was just talking about it with my wife because your specific example of a map has been a running debate between us. I just pick the least cost path via the algorithm to the point where I have poor spatial awareness. My father in law insists on using paper maps because he wants to know where everything is to be helpful. For me, the ease of the al…
In the past I found that I had poor spacial awareness - a few months ago I started using navigation apps solely in the “north up” orientation. this is much less intuitive when navigating, but forces me to think spatially about where i am and I’ve found has helped me retain much more spatial context about my environment. I’m much more able to navigate without the map than I was before I started this experiment - and i…
People who speak those languages have an almost supernatural way of knowing where is north intuitively, because they HAD to do it to communicate.