english: I read books about Stalin, and books about how the Uzbek people came to identify as Muslims, and I read books about how to make atomic bombs, but it just felt like I was creating my own hurdles, and then jumping over them myself, instead of feeling the excitement of being part of a community of learners, a community of people who are engaged together in the cartographic enterprise of trying to better understand and map the world around us.
non_english: Čitao sam knjige o Staljinu i knjige o tome kako su Uzbeci postali muslimani i čitao sam knjige o pravljenju atomskih bombi, ali sam imao osećaj da samom sebi stvaram prepreke i da ih sam preskačem, bez osećaja uzbuđenja zbog toga što sam deo zajednice učenika, zajednice ljudi koji su zajedno uključeni u kartografsko ustrojstvo unutar koga se trudimo da bolje razumemo i iscrtamo svet oko nas.