Why do so many of us computer programmers and other engineering and science geeks take up cycling? Think about it:
Why do so many of us computer programmers and other engineering and science geeks take up cycling? Think about it:
- It's an activity that centres on a mechanical device.
- It's a sport that involves repetitive movements.
- It's a sport that, as we practise it, doesn't involve a great deal of rapid and unpredictable demands to coordinate with other people in a team.
- It's an activity in which reciprocal social interactions are manageably brief and delimited, constrained as we are by riding single-file in the wind.
- It's all about maps and wayfinding.
Nick Martin has detailed logs of his cycling tour across North America, a feat of leisure of which I can only dream.