Are any of you old enough to have talked to someone who was alive back when our ancestors

used to give each other something they called directions.

There was a time when people didn't have black robots

that they kept in their phone that would tell them where to go

and black robots to know where everybody is

within a meter at any given time,

which I can't think of any potential problem ever with that.

So it makes sense that we completely went away from this old notion of directions.

But back in the day, apparently in simpler times with simpler people folks would be like,

hey I want to go to a place, but I don't know where that is. Could you tell me how to get there?

And then another person who did know how to get there would be like yeah first you go to the thing

and the other thing and then you look for this landmark and then you turn this way

and then you go to this thing but don't do that go to this other way instead and

then there you'll be to the thing and everybody's like oh thanks and then I'm told apparently it generally worked

well when our ancestors used to give these directions it seems to me that they would come in two parts.

There is the general don't get distracted by this stuff part, and then there was the more

specific, really be on the lookout here this really important detailed turn parts.

So that don't get distracted part would be like, all right,

well everybody knows the main highways.

You just get on the main highway, and as you're going along that you're going to go past the big red barn on the right.

Don't turn in there.

Then on the left you're going to see the stack of cars that look like Stonehenge, don't go in there.

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