Curiosity is good, and well-directed curiosity is better. I probably didn’t state it well, and if I sounded discouraging I apologize. The point I meant to make is that the meta-question “what should I be thinking about?” is super valuable and should take precedence over many detailed questions like this one. Of course the logic of when to close the fridge might generalize to other important things, but I wasn’t seeing how, so I wondered if this was just one example of an important class of questions. The only class I was seeing was “things that distract you from important questions” but I could be wrong!
Curiosity is good, and well-directed curiosity is better. I probably didn’t state it well, and if I sounded discouraging I apologize. The point I meant to make is that the meta-question “what should I be thinking about?” is super valuable and should take precedence over many detailed questions like this one. Of course the logic of when to close the fridge might generalize to other important things, but I wasn’t seeing how, so I wondered if this was just one example of an important class of questions. The only class I was seeing was “things that distract you from important questions” but I could be wrong!