Equal earth (https://equal-earth.com/ https://equal-earth.com/) is a good well designed map. I printed the pacific ocean centered version and have it on my wall

Equal earth (https://equal-earth.com/ https://equal-earth.com/) is a good well designed map. I printed the pacific ocean centered version and have it on my wall. There is a lot of conspiratorial woo about this topic, but it is genuinely useful to get a sizes right at a starting point for thinking clearly about the world. For example (orthogonal to the usual conspiracy talk), it's commonly thought that Russia is super important and unbelievably vast. But a good equal area map shows it's only a 1/3 bigger than Canada + Alaska (and considerably poorer). Likewise we are much more likely to travel at the world scale by plane with great circle routes. The mercator map is actually a less accurate guide to that type of navigation. That said it is still useful to have north be directly up and south, east and west be straight lines too. Hence google maps using an mercator-ish projection, to make the zoom from local navigation to the world size continue to preserve straight lines and angles. Mercator is overused but is useful.