Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
Paul Graham • What You'll Wish You'd Known
Peter Thiel will also sometimes ask potential hires, “What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?”
Peter Thiel will also sometimes ask potential hires, “What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?”
The perils of niching down
ungated.life
Questions like “what are you compulsive about?” can sometimes reveal the other person’s elephant. Or: “Where have you experienced a moment of ignition, when you saw some older person doing an activity and you intuited that they were wired the same way you were, and you said to yourself ‘I want to be that’?” Or: “How would your spouse/sibling/parent... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog
"Because novels come from long-marinated and unregarded anxiety, from silent anxiety…" - Martin Amis