Why "Magnetic North"?

How I quit worrying and came to embrace "good enough"

There was a time that navigators looked towards a single unmoving star in the sky to keep themselves on course while they made their way across unfathomable distances in the sea. But there were some downsides: checking one’s bearings only at night left countless vessels lost. Then came the compass: an instrument that honed in on the magnetic pull of the…