What question would you like to be asked?
Pavlos posed the question as I hitch hiked back to my line after detouring back to Albania to see Jess, but it had slipped from my mind until just now when I overheard someone at the hostel ask, “What’s...
Here I keep a sporadically updated list of questions that I would like other people’s input on. You can email me with anything related to these questions, be it your own thoughts/contribution, a paper on the subject, a re-framing of the question, a question about the question etc. etc.
Pavlos posed the question as I hitch hiked back to my line after detouring back to Albania to see Jess, but it had slipped from my mind until just now when I overheard someone at the hostel ask, “What’s...
Where are you most peculiar? I think that’s a good question for figuring out where our purpose lies, that is, where our attention lingers. That thing that we return to again and again, which occupies an...
Does meaning exist without emotion? To state my bias upfront, I am attached (emotionally, how else) to the idea that meaning is inherently emotional, that without emotion there is no meaning. That said, I...
I’m interested in a life without keys, a world where keys are redundant, relegated to ornamental functions, where trust is sacred and unbroken. What does it say about our society that things, belongings,...
There is an explosion of activity in this space at the moment. People like Andy Matuschak are finding creative ways to fund research in this space while tools like Roam, Obsidian, Logseq, and Athens race to...
Is death the last chapter, or the infinite after? I realise this sounds like a complete waffle of a question, and for we secular souls it is certainly unanswerable in any concrete sense, but still I like to...
I don’t like this question, I’m not sure it’s a question that can be answered or even really explored, but still it has been rattling around in my head for so long that I feel the need to preserve it here....
We can go great stretches of time without any big changes occurring in our lives – sometimes big changes happen to us and we are forced to change, but this is not very interesting from the perspective of...