questions to ask someone you met on twitter
why are great love stories mostly written by men?
is public interest relevant to private law?
what did it mean to be Greek in the Roman Empire?
what are your favorite ordinary pleasures?
when did you last beg?
should people accept scientific statements they don’t understand?
but really, how does wifi work?
is venture capital more important than equity and debt markets for financing innovation?
do women really only wear makeup for themselves?
what are your medium term financial aspirations?
what counts as bullying?
what’s the optimal amount of time to spend kissing before sex?
which historical figure do you most identify with?
what makes a person indigenous?
what comes after postmodernism?
how often do you touch yourself?
true or false: humility can only be borne of humiliation
true or false: the world operates according to discoverable laws
true or false: morals have aesthetic criteria
true or false: fear always runs beneath greed
is there any inherent virtue in being a parent?
is it possible to forgive fully and yet resent?
is it possible to be extremely kind and yet selfish?
is it possible to hold strong aesthetic preferences and yet withhold judgement?
what’s your favorite compliment to receive?
is there something passé about being very loud in bed?
in what ways are you a fascist?
what’s your secret startup idea?
what question should people ask more often?
when were you the most unmotivated you’ve ever been?
what’s something you dislike about your mom?
if you really like someone, should you or shouldn’t you have sex with them on the first date?
why did dinosaurs exist for 200 million years without achieving advanced civilization?
what year will be the last Art Basel Miami?
is Nabokov’s fiction apolitical?
did people have rights in the Paleolithic era?
is privatization of public services a solution or a problem?
have you found product-market fit?
would you like to have a perfect memory?
is the loss of language diversity more or less tragic than the loss of biological diversity?
what’s more beautiful than people?
what’s more beautiful than beauty?
what are some of your unpopular aesthetic preferences?
does enough money create enough enough taste?
what’s the smallest thing for which you are grateful?
can the novel do anything that film can’t?
does the one who is always waiting suffer more or less than the one who’s never waited for anyone?
the diameter of the observable universe is about 93 billion light-years, but what is the size of the whole universe? is the universe infinite?
is ambition a virtue?
is thinking an action?
do you find it easier to talk about what you like or what you dislike?
what is the optimal amount of effort that should go into a personal website?
what’s a recurring failure of yours?
are exotic sexual positions mostly disappointing?
what is special about Elon Musk?
what’s a nice name for a child?
should calorie counts be shown on menus?
does behavioral economics indicate more that humans are not self-interested or that humans are not rational?
what’s your favorite equation?
do you understand your enemies?
do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems tell us anything about human intelligence?
what’s the relationship between imagination and ethics?
how plastic is the mature brain?
what’s the difference between superstition and faith?
do you want to get ice cream?
has anyone ever touched you here?
what wouldn't you do for love?
good questions
these are good! 59! 63!!