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# A field guide to getting lost
- URL: https://astrix-meridian.adrianoamalfi.com/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost/
- Published: 2026-07-20T17:43:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-20T18:07:47.000Z
- Description: Turn the phone face-down. Take the smaller road. A modest argument for not knowing exactly where you are.
- Author: Sana Okafor
- Tags: Field Notes

Getting lost is a skill we have mostly deleted. The blue dot always knows. But the blue dot has never once shown me anything worth stopping for — that is always down the road it did not recommend.

So: turn it face-down. Take the smaller road. Trust that you will end up somewhere, because you always do, and it is usually more interesting than where you meant to be.