perennially great questions to ask
because questions are the most important things you can have
perennially great questions to ask
Imagine your life as a book. What title would you give to the current chapter, and what is going to be the next?
What aspect of your work is hardest to copy? How can you amplify it?
3-2-1: On becoming hard to copy, the power of fundamentals, and three qualities that matter
Which of my strongest beliefs are formed on second-hand information vs. first-hand experience?
If I could not compare myself to anyone else, how would I define a good life?
Whose views do I criticize that I would actually agree with if I lived in their shoes?
Who do I envy that is actually less happy than I am?
Looking back, am I any good at anticipati... See more
If I could not compare myself to anyone else, how would I define a good life?
Whose views do I criticize that I would actually agree with if I lived in their shoes?
Who do I envy that is actually less happy than I am?
Looking back, am I any good at anticipati... See more
Morgan Housel • A Few Questions
Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
paulgraham.com • What You'll Wish You'd Known
Describe your ideal self—the qualities you’d most like to embody—in five words. Then, to find your shadow self, locate the opposing qualities of each one. The shadow self describes the parts of ourselves we most ardently reject and repress. I think my ideal self would be: insightful, generous, authentic, funny, discerning. That means my shadow self... See more
Haley Nahman • #222: In what specific way are you annoying?
Talk about potential mistakes before they happen and people start looking for ways to prevent them.
Talk about actual mistakes after they happen and people start looking for reasons to defend their actions.
What do we need to be talking about now, so we can learn the lessons before we need them?
Talk about actual mistakes after they happen and people start looking for reasons to defend their actions.
What do we need to be talking about now, so we can learn the lessons before we need them?
3-2-1: On finding the best way to do something, how timing shapes communication, and making unreasonable requests
What do you gain by doing this? And what do you lose?