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friction — a practice of voluntary difficulty

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"Not all those who wander are lost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Navigate somewhere without your phone

Spatial navigation was once a survival skill that shaped hippocampal development. GPS has made it unnecessary. London taxi drivers who navigate by memory have measurably larger hippocampi than the general population. When we outsource wayfinding, we let a core cognitive system atrophy.

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