A year after college graduation, my friend Sebin introduced me to an exercise that changed how I thought about direction-finding. She handed me a piece of paper and asked me to mind-map everything I actually thought about during a typical week, not what I thought I should be thinking about, but what genuinely occupied my mental space. The resulting map became a roadmap for the coming year: topics to read more about, people to seek out for conversations, rabbit holes worth exploring.