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Cartography
Cartography is the science of map-making.
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I like to ensure that I have music and art all around me. My personal favorite is old maps. What I love about old maps is that they are both beautiful and imperfect. These imperfections represent that some of the most talented in history were still very wrong (early cartography was very difficult). As the majority of my work is analysis and advisory, I find it a valuable reminder that my knowledge is limited. No matter how much data or insight I have, I can never fully “map out” any business. Ye
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― Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want
― Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want
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To have followed the speculative vision of Behaim in his famous globe, or of others like him, would have been disastrous, even though their work represents the cream of fifteenth-century mapmaking and was known to Columbus. Indeed, as one commentator has observed, if his chart had been based on the Behaim scenario, 'Columbus could not even have known of the whereabouts of the New World, much less discover it.'
Yet not only does he seem to have known where he was going but, on some accounts, when
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― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
