In the past I found that I had poor spacial awareness - a few months ago I started using navigation apps solely in the “north up” orientation. this is much less intuitive when navigating, but forces me to think spatially about where i am and I’ve found has helped me retain much more spatial context about my environment.

I’m much more able to navigate without the map than I was before I started this experiment - and it’s had the added benefit of giving me the ability to know what part of the 101 I’m on solely by the angle and shape of the nearest exit.

I hope eventually AI gets to a point where I can split the difference between ambiguous and incidental friction like this, although tbh I’m not really sure what that would look like.