Perec urged his readers to ‘question your teaspoons’.

The study also suggests that open-ended, intellectually inviting questions are what you have time for after you’re done with the business of survival.

As a culture, we have a persistent tendency to pretend that asking ‘what’ can be substituted for ‘why’. When we can, we avoid the murky waters of emotion and causation, and focus only on the measurable.

foxhog.

initial (diversive) curiosity

Skills come from struggle.

enduring (epistemic) curiosity;

Curiosity is the sweetest form of dissatisfaction.

writer Kevin Drum, ‘The internet is making smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.’