On keeping a question open longer than is comfortable把一個問題開著，比舒適更久一點
Curiosity is a muscle for tolerating the unresolved. Here is how I train it.好奇是一種忍受未解的肌肉。這是我訓練它的方法。
Closure feels like progress. You reach an answer, file the question, and move on lighter. Often that lightness is the cost, not the reward.
The questions that compound are the ones you can bear to leave open while you gather more of the world around them.
Train the tolerance
I keep a short list of questions I refuse to answer yet. They collect evidence quietly, across fields, until one day an unrelated reading snaps them into focus.
Curiosity, it turns out, is less about asking and more about waiting — holding the unresolved long enough for it to become interesting.
結案，感覺像進展。你抵達一個答案，把問題歸檔，然後輕鬆地往前走。很多時候，那份輕鬆是代價，而非回報。
會複合的問題，是那些你願意留著不答、同時持續蒐集周遭世界的問題。
鍛鍊那份忍耐
我留著一張短短的清單，上面是我拒絕現在就回答的問題。它們安靜地跨領域蒐證，直到某天，一段毫不相關的閱讀，讓它們瞬間聚焦。
原來，好奇與其說是發問，不如說是等待——把未解握得夠久，久到它變得有趣。
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