finm

Yes, I changed the title to the linked page to ‘A path from Seattle’ from ‘Go east from Seattle’ because, from reading the comments here, I agree the original title was too misleading. Just updated the title of the Substack post also.

Author here — I agree the image is misleading (and added a caveat to be clearer, though I could have made the arrow smaller).

I don't think the question requires the reader to ignore what ‘east’ means, however. There is unambiguously one direction at Seattle (tangent to the Earth's surface) which is facing due east.

I also didn't mean to take a patronising/arrogant tone to the reader and I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave.

Author here.

Reading these comments I agree that the title is far too misleading (and unnecessarily so). Changed to “A path from Seattle”.

This could become a party trick: memorise 20 seconds of reverse speech, invite others to record and reverse it