[em-bee]

would you really have an answer?

actually, yes i would.

ok, to be fair, i have been sailing, so i learned a thing or two about knots, but i am also the inquisitive type that questions why things are the way they are. (your typical HN reader, as you say, i suppose). furthermore i have been moving around in the world a lot, which has naturally challenged many preconceived ideas.

i guess maybe my point is that being inquisitive is a natural part of learning and we should all be inquisitive when learning something.

i am unable to come up with an example of doing something without thinking about it, but i guess that is another case of not knowing what i don't know, or rather i can't think about it because i am not thinking about it.