questions are the guide to life

Virginia Woolf, writing in her diary in 1933, expressed essentially the same thing: “What an odd coincidence! that real life should provide precisely the situation I am writing about!”

I truly think that autodidacts are responsible for all that is good and great about alternative culture.

dear Nick thanks for sending along the update you and Zach have made the right choice I predict you will find life is just beginning best regards Warren E Buffett

People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.
You don’t choose your passions. They choose you.

Jeff Bezos

The questions we ask reshape our reality.

This is what questions do: they pull the right stuff into your brain.

Are you building a practice or a cathedral?
- Yancey Strickler

Writers know this. Staring at a blank page with no question to answer is felt proof of Sartre’s observation: “Humans are condemned to be free.” (Maybe it had to be a writer who made that observation.) Fire up a blank page with a question in mind, however, and the world becomes grownup Blue’s Clues. You’re reading something or talking to someone and

It is clear that the path forward for me is to seek that balance of hard, valuable, and fun in every project I start, join, back, or advise. Hard is for intellectual engagement, the search for solution by any means necessary. Valuable is the knowledge that if this, whatever this is, works, the world will never be the same. Fun is the sense of