Love Asking Why

Wonder, out loud.

Some questions deserve more than a quick take. This is where they get one.

Love Asking Why is a publication of questions and their answers. You bring the question, the one you keep circling back to, and it gets answered in full: an original essay or a report, written by me or by an invited quest writer. No hot takes. No manufactured certainty. A real question, taken seriously, and followed wherever it leads.

How it works

  1. Ask. Send the question you cannot stop thinking about.
  2. We answer. I write it up, or invite a quest writer whose mind fits the question, as an essay or a report.
  3. Read, then ask the next one. The orbit keeps going.

Quest writers

Invited contributors are quest writers, and their pieces are Quests. They bring their own questions and answers. If you write, think, or build around a question worth chasing, there may be room for you here. Pitch the question you want to answer, and why you are the one to answer it.

Who's behind it

Thomas Tornatore. I spend my days on hard questions about how we decide, who owns the call, and what we should and shouldn't hand to machines. Love Asking Why is where I follow the questions that don't clock out: the ones about why we do what we do, and how we might do it better. I started it because my favorite conversations all begin the same way, with someone asking "but why," and I wanted a place to keep asking out loud, with people who love it too.

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