Dave Evans

Seems terribly inefficient, except I'm learning my way forward till finally like, oh, that's it.

And then the destination I'm looking for finally appears and I land there.

But that boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing thing, very not a straight line.

In a wayfinding task, that bouncy line is literally the shortest distance between those two points because that's what mortals have to do.

You know, it's interesting, but it's inefficient.

I totally agree.

In fact, having been in the Valley for a long, long time, I know that now and then, you know, coders put tricks and jokes in code all the time.

And so I wonder if in the GPS code, you know, if I do the wrong thing on purpose, like it'll go straight and turn left on, you know, Alpine Street and I make a U-turn, you know, and then it says, okay, so go down the street and make another U-turn.

And I do it nine times.

On the 10th time, it's kind of go, come on, Dave.

What the heck?

Yeah, I tried like 15 mistakes and it's totally- The angry co-pilot feature.

And it's not even, by the way, it's not even when you did the wrong thing, you did the wrong thing.

For it to have been wrong, you had to have had access to information that would have told you it would have been right up front.

You didn't make a mistake.

You made a move.

You learned something that said, oh, continuing on the same collinear pathway would be suboptimal.

I'm going to actually make an adjustment now.

That's not a mistake.

It's just a move.