good questions

I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”

as a leader, how do you decide whether to optimize or innovate?

not that you can’t do both at the same time — it’s really a matter of degree. but it’s an important matter of degree.

Now I can hold a sustained, tailored conversation on any of the topics I care about, from agnotology to zoosemiotics, with a system that has effectively achieved Ph.D.-level competence across all of them. I can construct the “book” I want in real time—responsive to my questions, customized to my focus, tuned to the spirit of my inquiry. And the