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Sunday, January 13, 2013 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Zero, Sandhill Cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 13, 2013
Zero, Sandhill Cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 13, 2013

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Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio 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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