🔍 Issue #5 — The Disappearing Question

Jesse Cope
June 04, 2025

We live in the age of instant answers.
Just ask. And the machine replies.

But something strange is happening.

We’re asking fewer questions.
We’re jumping straight to results.
We’re outsourcing our curiosity.

It’s subtle — but real.

Why wonder when you can just query?
Why sit with a problem when GPT can “solve” it?

But here’s the thing:
Asking is the most human thing you can do.

Questions are messy.
They hold tension.
They’re the pause before insight, the detour before discovery.

AI doesn’t wonder. It doesn’t get stuck.
It doesn’t toss and turn over the right question.

But you do. And you should.

The future doesn’t need more people who can Google the answer.
It needs more people who know how to ask a better question.

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
— Thomas Berger

Questions worth your attention:

❓ The Surprising Power of Questions – Harvard Business Review
Explores how asking questions can unlock value in organizations, spur learning, and fuel innovation.
🧠 The Right Question Institute
A nonprofit teaching kids and adults how to ask smarter questions.
📚 A More Beautiful Question – Warren Berger
A whole book (and blog) on the power of inquiry in a fast-answer culture.

What question have you been avoiding lately?

🧠 Stay morehuman.
See you next week.
— morehuman