Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Endorphins from Good Questions

 Does anyone else get a serotonin blast or endorphins when then generate a good question (to the web, to an expert, to a rando)?

Recently, I've had two unrelated experineces where I finally had generated enough context on a subject to generate good, actionable, valid questions that subsequently furthered my work and exploration of a new topic. It's such a jolt to my system that I love this.

I used to get the same kind of feelings (and neurochemical feedback) from completing a hard problem, or getting a program to run, etc. But these days, it's mostly just around generating a sufficiently good question that I'm no longer blocked in my work. Totally splendiferous.

I have nothing to link here sadly. It's just a blog post about feelings.

NOTE: I've had some of these sensations when working with Google AI and Microsoft Github Copilot. Asking great questions, i.e., prompting, is key to a useful productive interaction with these AI tools.