favourite questions
what questions guide your life?
favourite questions
How do I channel the embodied spirit of my past to charter into the abstract hyper landscape of my future?
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
how do I maintain my parallel practice? How can I create a structure where instead of competing with one another, they feed into each other?
“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
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?
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 learn to focus, pay attention to what I am paying attention to ?