Lately I’ve been hiking the 125-mile-long Paumanok Path in eastern Long Island in sections. I love that it extends uninterrupted from Rocky Point in the west to Montauk Point in the east. It’s the network effect, which says that a network grows in value as it adds nodes. A long trail becomes better when a short trail through a special piece of woodland is incorporated into it. Conversely, the short trail attracts new attention and visitors.

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Persons: Robert Moor, “, tingle, ”, Walt Whitman Locations: Mount Washington, N.H, Maine, Georgia, Long, Rocky, Montauk, Chicago