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Geography is 4 dimensional

Derek Sivers makes the case that geography can also be mentioned by time.

When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place – only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when. Unless you are in a place right now, you can only speak of it in past-tense.

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  • Geography is 4 dimensional

    Derek Sivers makes the case that geography can also be mentioned by time. When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place – only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when. Unless you are in a place right now,…

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