More rambles
So it occurs to me that driving is mostly 'management'. If you think of yourself as an old-fashioned sonar/radar screen, where the line goes around and 'blips' whatever it detects...each 'detect' (in our brains) encodes estimated speed, direction of travel, mass (inspecifically like 'that's a big truck' or 'that's a bicycle'), to some extent accelleration (though it's notoriously hard to do with any accuracy), and estimated time of impact. ie. he's 10 seconds away. Then, we discard information that's not useful in this moment, or for the next three seconds, or whatever our estimated time for our turn or lane transition or parking job or whatever we're doing.
In other words, a lot of the 'skill' of driving is knowing what information to discard as irrelevant and what is immediately important. As we grow more experienced, we do this more and more, sometimes to our peril as in 'california stops', but in general it works. Because? There is so much information intake involved in driving (or managing) that we simply can't handle it all, at once and use it for any useful purpose. It's just data overdose. This same thing seems consistent with managing a large group or company, as keeping up with all the threads becomes exponentially more difficult as the group grows linearly. It's why we have sergeants and assistant managers, in the real world.
K.
In other words, a lot of the 'skill' of driving is knowing what information to discard as irrelevant and what is immediately important. As we grow more experienced, we do this more and more, sometimes to our peril as in 'california stops', but in general it works. Because? There is so much information intake involved in driving (or managing) that we simply can't handle it all, at once and use it for any useful purpose. It's just data overdose. This same thing seems consistent with managing a large group or company, as keeping up with all the threads becomes exponentially more difficult as the group grows linearly. It's why we have sergeants and assistant managers, in the real world.
K.