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
Their gospel of optimisation ignores the fundamental question: what’s the point of being 10x more productive if we’re not 10x more fulfilled?
337 / Productivity’s empty promise
“Is what I’m about to do conducive to life?”
The Overview: Life's Genius
“How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?”
—Jerry Colonna
this hurdle I have to jump over each time I write: How can I say this more crisply? When I write (which is really just to say: when I think) it all boils down to one simple, but utterly excruciating question: What am I really trying to say here?
Isabel Hazan • distillation
Research Questions That Could Have a Big Social Impact, Organised by Discipline
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Why am I so sure about this?
358 / The feed no longer surprises but sedates
Does the idea align with the zeitgeist and culture of the time?
Does the idea resonate with the repressed aspects of people's identities during that period?
Engineering is (unconsciously) driven by the assumption that humanity’s needs for speed, comfort, materialism, and convenience are limitless. What if we introduced limits (economic, human, and ecological limits) to people’s needs? How would engineers design the things we use in a world that sets limits to growth?