Reflection on On Trails by Robert Moor

              This was a really cool book recommended to me by a friend. It is all about paths and offers interesting perspectives on ecology and geography. I didn’t take too many notes, but the most profound thing I got from this book is that trails are key to life. In a forest, the spiral instinct kicks in when people are lost, so that without landmarks, the average lost hiker will move no further than 100 yards from where they got lost. Instead of going far in one direction, people will move around spiraling in circles for hours. I think this applies well to knowledge versus information. Information is a forest, and knowledge is a trail. You move nowhere when lost in tons of information, but with knowledge you can go far.