Curiosity. 7 notes.

What a beautiful thought: seek better questions.

The awesome Simon Willison hosted a session between Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic’s Claude Code team. Given that I love Claude Code, I wanted to watch the full video but didn’t have the time to. So I was reading the edited transcript that Simon published, and this stood out to me: Thanks to Claude Code, I…

Here I make the case for why you should fuck around more and find out.

From Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel biography: I was an untroublesome child who looked after herself. For a short time I went to the village kindergarten, but I didn’t feel too good there. My strongest memory of the place is of being made to have a lie-down in the middle of the day and of sitting in a tree when I didn’t want…

Henry Oliver on how to have good taste: When we prioritise our own reaction to art, we assume that those reactions are about the art. But if you are misreading a piece of writing, without knowing it, your feelings will be more to do with you than with the writing, and thus not a response to the writing at all. When we…

I believe going down rabbit holes is essential to living well. When something catches my attention—a “ripple”—I follow it wherever it leads, even if it seems random or pointless. These intellectual adventures have led me to the best books, projects, and ideas in my life. A few thoughts on tumbling down weird rabbit holes.

Sometimes, the most important discoveries come from simply wanting to know. This video by Betül Kaçar, “Why we explore, even when there’s no payoff,” is a beautiful reminder of the power of pure curiosity in science.