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Progress markers humans invented because moving forward feels better when something keeps score.
means Significant points or achievements that mark stages in a journey, project, or life.
from Literally stones placed along Roman roads, carved with the distance to the next town — measuring travel before the metaphor swallowed them whole and made every birthday a milestone.
Roman techEmpire-wide road system used numbered stone markers.
Golden zeroAll Roman roads measured from a central gilded milestone.
Meaning creepFrom physical distance to any meaningful achievement.