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Thursday, May 10, 2012 - Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM

Camped at Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM, May 10, 2012
Camped at Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM, May 10, 2012

Night camp

Dry Camped - Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM

Skepticism is Helpful

If you want to notice things that seem wrong, you'll find a degree of skepticism helpful. I take it as an axiom that we're only achieving 1% of what we could. This helps counteract the rule that gets beaten into our heads as children: that things are the way they are because that is how things have to be. For example, everyone I've talked to while writing this essay felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting.

The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004

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