Question & Think

Letters for people who never stopped asking "why" and "what if."

We're mostly trained out of it. As kids we ask why constantly—then somewhere along the way we learn to have answers instead of questions, to look certain, to move on.

This is a place that does the opposite. Where curiosity gets followed instead of filed away, and things get taken apart to see how they actually work. The point is understanding — not sounding clever.

It's done in the open, one piece at a time. Some land, some don't. That's the deal with learning out loud.

If you still like asking why—or want to start again—come read along.

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I'm Jacek (Jack) Iciek. I trade precious metals in London, and I'm a father.

As a kid I asked why about everything. My own father's answer was always the same two words—question and think. Then life did its usual thing. I got busy, got certain, stopped asking. Writing, which I'd loved as a boy, was one of the first things to go.

At 40, I decided to reset. I got my health back, lost the weight, cleaned up how I was living—and picked writing back up after twenty-odd years away. I'm a beginner again, on purpose. That's the fun part.

So I named the whole thing after my father's instruction, and started asking why again—out loud, in public, one piece at a time.

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