> If caring about it is one of the criteria for a good initial
question, then the optimal question varies from person to person.
with another submission posted some 15 minutes later [0] noting
J. R. Ackerley’s ability to make anything compelling through the sheer
weight of care
The "best essay" for an author is certainly cantered on their care.
Yet I feel in the current nonchalant, urbane and cynical climate if
the audience sense any sniff of "care", it is to be savaged.
Unless it tickles something sentimental or ironic, care is despised
and dismissed as weakness that "doesn't make a living" or is some
wonky "ideology".
But then people would call me cynical for saying that :)
> If caring about it is one of the criteria for a good initial question, then the optimal question varies from person to person.
with another submission posted some 15 minutes later [0] noting J. R. Ackerley’s ability to make anything compelling through the sheer weight of care
The "best essay" for an author is certainly cantered on their care. Yet I feel in the current nonchalant, urbane and cynical climate if the audience sense any sniff of "care", it is to be savaged.
Unless it tickles something sentimental or ironic, care is despised and dismissed as weakness that "doesn't make a living" or is some wonky "ideology".
But then people would call me cynical for saying that :)
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39663046