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Life
Lists like this sure make me feel like an inferior slacker. Great read though!
“Every group of people who think for a living is going to be sad. Ignorance is bliss. So what’s the opposite?” – Chris Rock
We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
The textbook definition of a question is a sentence used to seek information, but it feels borderline criminal to reduce something as foundational as a question to something transactional.
I am comfortable with doubt and am constitutionally resistant to moral certainty, herd mentality and dogma. I am disturbed on a fundamental level by the self-serving, toddler politics of some of my counterparts – I do not believe that silence is violence, complicity, or a lack of courage, but rather that silence is often the preferred option when... See more