good questions
/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:
Why are we doing this?
Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.
What’s the simplest explanation?
What reaction should all the creative achieve?
What’s your most controversial opinion?
What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compound?
Are you solving a
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
Andy Matuschak https://x.com/andy_matuschak/status/1781444664127541449
The truth of anything is multidimensional and impossible to fully grasp. So a better question than “Is this true?” is “In what scenario is this true?”
Peter Thiel will also sometimes ask potential hires, “What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?”
“I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.” Sasha Chapin
Paul Graham