Dave Evans

I'm going to do an empirical thing called try it.

We call it prototyping.

So I'm going to make this move.

I'm going to go, I'm going to go talk to Chris and see how that goes.

You know, then what did I learn that day?

And then, you know, I'll go here and then I'll go over here.

It's a very jagged pathway.

Might go backward.

I might have to start over again.

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?