All work boils down to two questions, asks researcher alth0u
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-05
In a widely shared quip, researcher alth0u argues all work reduces to repeatedly answering two questions: "what is X actually?" and "what is good?" Define the thing, define quality, and loop forever.
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