Questions to ask every decade
This is a list inspired by Kepano in his blog:
- What would you do if you had 6 months to live?
- What would you do if you had a billion dollars?
- What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago?
- What do you hope will be the same 10 years from now?
- What do you hope will be different 10 years from now?
- What is your idea of perfect happiness?
- When and where were you happiest?
- Why do you get out of bed in the morning?
- What do you consider the lowest depth of misery?
- What is your most marked characteristic?
- What is your greatest fear?
- What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
- What is the trait you most deplore in others?
- On what occasion do you lie?
- What is your greatest extravagance?
- What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
- What do you most dislike about your appearance?
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
- Which talent would you most like to have?
- What do people frequently misunderstand about you?
- What is the quality you most like in a man?
- What is the quality you most like in a woman?
- What do you most value in your friends?
- What do you consider your greatest achievement?
- If you could give everyone in the world one gift, what would it be?
- What was your greatest waste of time?
- What do you find painful but worth doing?
- Where would you most like to live?
- What is your most treasured possession?
- Who is your best friend?
- Who or what is the greatest love of your life?
- Which living person do you most admire?
- Who is your hero of fiction?
- Which historical figure do you most identify with?
- What is your greatest regret?
- How would you like to die?
- What is your motto?
- What is the best compliment you ever received?
- What is the luckiest thing that happened to you?
- What makes you hopeful?
End of post
Subscribe to get future posts via email (or grab the RSS feed). 2-3 ideas every month across design and tech
Read more
- Breadboarding, shaping, slicing, and steelthreading solutions with AI agentsproduct-management
- How I started building softwares with AI agents being non technicalagentic-engineering
- Legible and illegible tasks in organisationsproduct
- L2 Fat marker sketchesdesign
- Writing as moats for humanswriting
- Beauty of second degree probesdecision-making
- Read raw transcriptsknowledge
- Boundary objects as the new prototypesprototyping
- One way door decisionsproduct
- Finished softwares should existproduct
- Essay Quality Rankerobsidian
- Export LLM conversations as snippetsbrowser-extension
- Flipping questions on its headinterviewing
- Vibe writing maximswriting
- How I blog with Obsidian, Cloudflare, AstroJS, Githubwriting
- How I build greenfield apps with AI-assisted codingai-coding
- We have been scammed by the Gaussian distribution clubmathematics
- Classify incentive problems into stag hunts, and prisoners dilemmasgame-theory
- I was wrong about optimal stoppingmathematics
- Thinking like a ship
- Hyperpersonalised N=1 learningeducation
- New mediums for humans to complement superintelligenceai-coding
- Maxims for AI assisted codingai-coding
- Personal Website Starter Kitai-coding
- Virtual bookshelvesaesthetics
- It's computational and AI everythingai-coding
- Public gardens, secret routesdigital-garden
- Git way of learning to codeai-coding
- Kaomoji generatorsoftware
- Copy, Paste and Citecuriosities
- Style Transfer in AI writingai-coding
- Understanding codebases without using codeai-coding
- Vibe coding with Cursorai-coding
- Virtuoso Guide for Personal Memory Systemsmemory
- Writing in Future Pastwriting
- Publish Originally, Syndicate Elsewhereblogging
- Poetic License of Designdesign
- Idea in the shower, testing before breakfastsoftware
- Technology and regulation have a dance of ice and firetechnology
- How I ship "stuff"software
- Weekly TODO List on CLIcli
- Writing is thinkingwriting
- Song of Shapes, Words and Pathscreativity
- How do we absorb ideas better?knowledge
- Read writers who operatewriting
- Brew your ideas lazilyideas
- Vibescreativity
- Trees, Branches, Twigs and Leaves — Mental Models for Writingwriting
- Compound Interest of Private Notesknowledge
- Conceptual Compression for LLMsai-coding
- Meta-analysis for contradictory research findingsdigital-health
- Beauty of Zettelswriting
- Proof of workproduct
- Gauging previous work of new joinees to the teamleadership
- Task management for product managersproduct
- Stitching React and Rails togetherai-coding
- Exploring "smart connections" for note takingknowledge
- Deploying Home Cooked Apps with Railssoftware
- Self Marketing
- Repetitive Copypromptingwriting
- Questions to ask every decadejournalling
- Balancing work, time and focusproductivity
- Hyperlinks are like cashew nutswriting
- Brand treatments, Design Systems, Vibesdesign
- How to spot human writing on the internet?writing
- Can a thought be an algorithm?product
- Opportunity Harvestingcareers
- How does AI affect UI?design
- Everything is a prioritisation problemproduct-management
- Nowlifestyle
- How I do product roastsproduct
- The Modern Startup Stacksoftware
- In-person vision transmissionproduct
- How might we help children invent for social good?social-design
- The meeting before the meetingmeetings
- Design that's so bad it's actually gooddesign
- Breaking the fourth wall of an interviewinterviewing
- Obsessing over personal websitessoftware
- Convert v0.dev React to Rails ViewComponentsrails
- English is the hot new programming languagesoftware
- Better way to think about conflictsconflict-management
- The role of taste in building productsdesign
- World's most ancient public health problemsoftware
- Dear enterprises, we're tired of your subscriptionssoftware
- Products need not be user centereddesign
- Pluginisation of Modern Softwaredesign
- Let's make every work 'strategic'consulting
- Making Nielsen's heuristics more digestibledesign
- Startups are a fertile ground for risk takingentrepreneurship
- Insights are not just a salad of factsdesign
- Minimum Lovable Productproduct
- Methods are lifejackets not straight jacketsmethodology
- How to arrive at on-brand colours?design
- Minto principle for writing memoswriting
- Importance of Whytask-management
- Quality Ideas Trump Executionsoftware
- How to hire a personal doctor
- Why I prefer indie softwareslifestyle
- Use code only if no code failscode
- Personal Observation Techniquesdesign
- Design is a confusing worddesign
- A Primer to Service Design Blueprintsdesign
- Rapid Journey Prototypingdesign
- Directory Structure Visualizercli
- AI git commitscli
- Do's and Don'ts of User Researchdesign
- Design Manifestodesign
- Complex project management for productproducts
- How might we enable patients and caregivers to overcome preventable health conditions?digital-health
- Pedagogy of the Uncharted — What for, and Where to?education
- Future of Ageing with Mehdi Yacoubiinterviewing
- Future of Equity with Ludovick Petersinterviewing
- Future of Mental Health with Kavya Raointerviewing
- Future of Tacit knowledge with Celeste Volpiinterviewing
- Future of Rural Innovation with Thabiso Blak Mashabainterviewing
- Future of unschooling with Che Vanniinterviewing
- Future of work with Laetitia Vitaudinterviewing
- How might we prevent acquired infections in hospitals?digital-health
- The soul searching yearsentrepreneurship
- Design education amidst social tribulationsdesign
- How might we assist deafblind runners to navigate?social-design