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This site is a collection of articles generated from prompts. Every article begins with a question that explores an idea or concept that is of interest to me. An AI responds with a detailed answer, which is presented alongside an automatically generated and selected illustration. Even the pull quotes are automatically selected.
What makes this site special is that the questions are the focus, not just the answers. The prompts cover a variety of topics ranging from philosophy and technology to sports and design.
This entire site was designed and implemented using Claude Code—Anthropic's AI coding assistant—and is available, built and deployed on GitHub.
Our company has thrived by delivering reliable software and earning trust; one misstep with catastrophic downside can undo years of goodwill.
By scientifically designing work, we address the second and third causes of soldiering (flawed practices and natural easiness) directly.
Valuable and rare resources can only be sources of sustained competitive advantage if rivals cannot obtain or copy them.
Fair planners openly sought to promote America’s role as an overseas imperial power, using exhibits to argue that Western colonial expansion was uplifting 'primitive' peoples.
the very refutation of a theory… is always a step forward that takes us nearer the truth.”
If you see changes like discoloration, spots, clamped fins, or swelling, those are the fish’s way of showing distress.
Companies might increase their use of contractors and gig workers for peak workload periods instead of maintaining excess staff.
In this era, legal training was considered essential for statesmen.
The Mass’s evolution is a case study in this principle – change and continuity in harmony.
“a paradox is truth standing on its head to attract attention.”
Buying **two tickets** effectively lets you spread that fixed fee across both seats, **reducing the fee per ticket**.
I was in Kansas City, and I was running my own studio, Laugh-O-Gram… It was a real adventure.
but if handled poorly they become “a painful source of distraction and lost productivity”
“Marx’s writings were largely rejected or ignored by mainstream institutions in the 19th century.”
Marriage is you putting your skin in the game for someone else – you each commit significant resources, future time, and reputation to the partnership
Designers often gravitate toward rich jewel tones in maximalist spaces because they play well together.
If you bid much lower than necessary, you’ll still win, but you sacrifice profit that you could have kept.
Watching a sunrise, in particular, often engenders feelings of optimism and motivation – it’s the literal start of a new day, which many find energizing.
Driving under the influence of marijuana impairs motor skills and reaction time.
On bad weather days, lifts often run below their optimal speed or not at all, regardless of other demands.
Cut, and he will find you," coaches tell anyone playing with Jokic.
With modernization, death rates fall first - improvements in nutrition, sanitation, and medicine save lives, especially reducing infant and child mortality.
Vertical integration (acquiring suppliers or distributors) can 'mitigate the risk of supply chain disruptions and price volatility' by ensuring a steady in-house supply.
No finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia.
“A minimalist, ‘elegant’ model … turned out to be built on oversimplified assumptions – and when those failed, the damage was enormous.”
Anyone can recall or look up an answer, but it takes wisdom, experience, and often courage to ask a truly important question.
The city hosts famous events like the Chinese New Year Parade and one of the largest Pride parades in the nation.
Both systems underline the power of compressing experience into a static form that can later be unfolded to produce complexity.
Humans can always improve their understanding of the world through better explanations, and there is no ultimate limit to what can be known.
However, this breakneck expansion came at tremendous environmental and social cost.