translation.en: 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.
translation.zh: 有关于斯大林的， 关于乌兹别克斯坦人民 是怎么被视为穆斯林的， 甚至还有关于怎么制造原子弹的， 但我的感觉并不好， 像是给自己制造了障碍， 然后还要自己跨过去， 我完全感受不到 身处学习社团里时的那种兴奋， 当时的我们就像一群地图发烧友， 聚集在地图制作公司， 试图更好地理解 和描绘我们所处的世界。