good questions
on the art of asking questions, as well as examples of good questions to use in all areas of your life - team building, interviewing, improving relationships, research, and more
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good questions
“Is what I’m about to do conducive to life?”
The Overview: Life's Genius
When you start managing someone, use your 1:1s in the first couple of weeks to understand their Context. Most new managers focus solely on Content (projects/goals/blockers). But Context + Content lets you move faster from Rapport to Credibility to Trust.
Example 1:1 questions:
Shreyas Doshitwitter.comWhy do social media platforms ignore good search capabilities?
How to balance investing in a great user experience with short term revenue generation?
Scott Alexander’s recent post argues that the best response to AI displacement isn’t optimization or doomerism—it’s play. Figure out what you actually want. Do the thing you love doing.
This is harder than it sounds. We’ve been socialized to optimize for homogeneity, not edge. But just as retail orderflow now moves institutional markets, the... See more
This is harder than it sounds. We’ve been socialized to optimize for homogeneity, not edge. But just as retail orderflow now moves institutional markets, the... See more
2026 Open Inquiries
how do we get people to awaken into their power and do stuff?
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live... See more
Maria Popova • Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
live your goddamn questions
"What would it look like if you took X seriously?"
