Well Put
Questions

I ask questions that bring spaces, and people, to life.

Jędrek Stępień
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Jędrek Stępień

I'm Jędrek Stępień, a seeker of questions. Good questions are a bit like truffles: they're extremely precious, but they hide. I love searching for them, finding them, and sharing them with you.

Welcome questions into your space

Questions set in a public space

Well-put questions invite reflection and wonder into everyday life.

Jędrek Stępień presents

Why my questions taste different?

Is sugar a spice?

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Every time, my intention is to ask a question that isn’t trivial of course, but also one that does not intimidate. The question should feel easy at first, yet turn out more challenging than it appears.

What is the difference between a shy person and a coward?

Rare

I’m an educator at heart, and the goal of asking, for me, is always to enrich, never to impoverish or, worse still, to mine people for personal information. My questions will therefore orient you toward projection rather than introspection…

Heart or brain - who is a better decision maker?

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… but impersonal questions tend to be cold and they need to be warmed by mixing their accessibility with the safety of not having wrong answers. Every answer must count.

Does Mars have its own world, or is it part of our world?

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Some people roll their eyes at philosophical questions they have no hope of answering. Mine are not like that: my background is in linguistics, not philosophy. No prior knowledge other than speaking a language is needed to enjoy answering all of my questions and benefiting from their effect.

What is the link between fresh and cold?

Take away

Because the questions are about concepts, and not particular events, they are hard to exhaust all at once. Once seen, they keep working in the background, revealing new thoughts hours or days later, when you open your fridge door, for example…

… and if that’s not the case, it’s still an honor for me if you bring them home and share them with your loved ones.

The genius of language is so great that to meditate upon mere words leads to profound understanding.

Hermann Keyserling

Every context has its questions

I love posing the right questions in the right place. My questions amuse, make people think and bring our world to life.

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