- Adjoints are all about joining things hence the name; much like chasing dependencies (arrows) between cells in a spreadsheet and then going back to the relational database where the sheet was extracted from. You have seamlessly jumped from algebraic morphisms to geometry without even thinking about it
- Homotopy is about finding "paths" between things and therefore imply some relative naming (coordinate) scheme is possible. The segments of a path arise due to torsors. Hence homotopy is associated with paths. UNIX paths and URLs come to mind