How to Build a System to Understand Yourself
The Human Log
13 min readApr 16, 2019
The log is an interesting invention. It began with 16th century ships — surrounded with water, no land in sight, no sense of direction, and no sense of speed. What did you have to compare your speed with anyway?
The sailors were ingenious. They used a log — a real piece of wood — attached to a string. They’d throw it in the water and use…