Seeking Questions

Imagine you're tracking number of new user sign-ups by day on a website, and it looks like this: Hypothetical New Users by Day Basi...

Part 1 This all began with an intuition. I noticed that there are certain people I really like, sometimes complete strangers, not unusua...

Let's start with some obligatory opening material for any atheists reading this. Non-nonbelievers, cover your eyes/ears. Obviously the...

A few days ago I had the joy of listening to a designer and an engineer discuss a minor change to a web page. It went something like this: ...

What sort of environment lends itself to breakthroughs? This is a pretty broad question. Environment covers a lot of variables, including ma...

The previous post gave some background on Kuhn's theories about scientific development and breakthrough, and extended those ideas to in...

Thomas Kuhn Probably the best-known name in the field of science history is Thomas Kuhn. This post is mostly going to be background on ...