Smoke always misleads you in searching your position. In many cases, modern instruments such as GPS failed to track your position. The only way left in front of you is to walk calmly without thinking that you are in amidst of some unknown periphery

Right now there are thirty-one satellites zipping around the world with nothing better to do than help you find your way to the grocery store.

The funny thing about GPS was it didn’t always send you in the right direction.
I knew that if I took a right and took Twelfth instead, I’d get there faster, so I turned right. Ozzy did not approve.
“Wut the foock?

The relevance of these special properties of the hippocampus and their role in map learning comes from a consideration of the massive upsurge in our use of technology for wayfinding. By focusing on the blue dot of a phone map, rather than looking about at our surroundings and making the effort to form a genuine map, we are short-circuiting the processes that we've learned to use over previous millennia. As far as finding our way is concerned, we have become striatal stimulus-response machines, racing through time and space like feverish maze mice hunting for cheese.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

As we sit here, continents are adrift, like leaves on a pond. GPS tracking shows North America & Europe currently moving apart at the same rate your fingernail grows, or about two yards in a human lifetime.