favourite questions
what questions guide your life?
favourite questions
moments of silence, vaccum, being idle - in this overstimulated world
The question isn’t how do you balance work and life, but how do you create a healthy relationship among work and the various other important areas of life?
Infinite Play • Work Life Balance is Impossible
Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust. Just as calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI can nudge creative work toward the things humans are uniquely good at: thinking and feeling deeply.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
how can i remain connected with my family? as my life becomes larger, how can I remain rooted and anchored in spaces and people that have nurtured me (and continue doing so) for the first twenty years of my life?
Asking:
is the guide to deciding how far to take particular techniques or studies, and which to take up next.
What do I need to do, or to understand, to live with greater gusto and wider vision?
is the guide to deciding how far to take particular techniques or studies, and which to take up next.
The power of an attitude | Vividness
How can I prioritize wellness, both in my body and soul?
“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you can do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a compulsion
... See moreAndy, Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
A first step is to entertain possible selves:29 identify some people you admire within or outside your field, and observe what they actually do at work day by day. A second step is to develop hypotheses about how these paths might align with your own interests, skills, and values. A third step is to test out the different identities by running
... See moreAdam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Years may pass before you feel like you’re onto something, and this process will likely involve plugging your ears to the siren song of trends until you realize you actually have the same sensibility you had as a kid, it’s just grown up now. I like the word sensibility, I’ve started using it instead of taste when I’m trying to tap into something... See more