Open Questions

Richard Feynman had a number of methods to support his work and his prolific output. One of them was a method that helped him experience the world through the lens of a set of questions he was working on and thinking about — a set of twelve questions he called his “favorite problems”

"You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, "How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

In that spirit, here are some of my own favorite problems — the questions I’m grappling with as I talk to people.

Questions About AI and Education

How do we ensure that students learn to think in the age of AI?