Some of these questions people could just type into Google. But the answers are more meaningful when they come from a trusted circle. And many inquiries aren’t about information: they are about sharing resources. When there is underlying trust, people become willing to offer up information that’s valuable, relational and risky: for example introductions to people in their network or honest reflections on a challenge.

Fabian Pfortmüller • Communities = human search engines?

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The question is a technology that children use to trawl for insights.

Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

As more knowledge workers spend their days prompting LLMs, it’s become popular to argue that asking good questions is becoming more valuable. What is less obvious but I think more interesting is that it will expose how little we actually care about answers, and in turn, what makes questions so valuable in the first place.

Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers Long Questions/Short Answers

A community will give you access to a collective set of knowledge, skills, and physical assets that vastly exceed your own.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

Proxy trust allows for better search results with the human search engine.Let’s say you’re part of a group of 500, in which you have 20 real, trusted relationships. Instead of searching across 20 people, with proxy trust your questions will now be considered by 200, maybe 300 people. That leads to better outcomes and it further strengthens the trus... See more