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Trust systems in the digital age (Qz) Field guide to the electoral landscape (Big Picture) The world is not getting worse (GeekWire) Glenn Greenwald on the state of modern media (NYMag) Cosmopolitanism (ABCD) Please support the blog by shopping through my Amazon Link. As a podcast host, I am constantly in search of better questions to ask my guests. I recently read the following passage in Kevin Kelly’s The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. I wanted to share it and challenge you to ask better questions. A good question is not concerned with a correct answer. A good question cannot be answered immediately. A good question challenges existing answers. A good question is one you badly want answered once you hear it, but had no inkling you cared before it was asked. A good question creates new territory of thinking. A good question reframes its own answers. A good question is a probe, a what-if scenario. A good question skirts on the edge of what is known and not known, neither silly nor obvious. A good question cannot be predicted. A good question will be the sign of an educated mind. A good question is one that generates many other good questions. A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do. A good question is what humans are for. In the spirit of this passage, I want to share a question I heard in a recent conversation with some friends. Hope it creates some new territory for thinking.
“Are you running from something or running towards something?”
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