I took the 997 GT3 out to Liwa on a Thursday. Not to escape. To listen.

The desert strips everything away, including noise. I had retuned the dampers the night before. Adjusted rebound, softened preload just enough to smooth high-speed compression. It felt tighter, more honest.

No signal out there. Just the engine, the tires, and the road. Fascinating how a system behaves without interference tells you more than a dashboard ever could.

Most people think rest is stepping away from complexity. For me, it's just applying the same mindset to something analog. Cars, code, campaigns. It's all systems.

You don't learn from data. You learn from interaction.