“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”
— Isaac Asimov

Uncertainty & Belief

• When does uncertainty improve judgment rather than degrade it?
• Is confidence more dangerous than ignorance?
• If two people see the same facts and disagree, what is actually different between them?
• Do we update beliefs because of evidence, or because of social permission?

Systems & Incentives

• What breaks first when a system scales: trust, information, or incentives?
• Which systems feel stable only because their failures are slow?
• If no one intends a bad outcome, where does responsibility live?
• How often do systems optimize what’s measurable over what matters?

Learning & Tools

• When does a tool clarify thinking, and when does it replace it?
• Do better tools create better judgment—or just faster mistakes?
• How much understanding disappears behind clean interfaces?
• Is explanation a test of understanding, or a performance?

Models & Reality

• When does a model quietly turn into a belief?
• What do models hide by being precise?
• Are we more afraid of being wrong, or of being wrong publicly?
• How often do we mistake consistency for truth?

Craft & Attention

• What does patience buy that speed cannot?
• When does simplification become distortion?
• How do you tell the difference between elegance and omission?
• What deserves sustained attention in a world optimized for interruption?

Meta

• Which questions keep returning under different disguises?
• How many disagreements are really about language?
• What changes when thinking itself is treated as a design problem?
• Which questions only feel important in retrospect?