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Curiosity, followed

Follow the question wherever it leads

CuriousBaba is a blog of open-ended essays and field notes. Each piece takes one question and follows it patiently, with room for nuance and a few good detours.

Where the questions lead

Three ways in

Essays tend to circle a few recurring angles. Here is where most of the writing begins.

Noticing

Small details

Close looks at ordinary objects and moments, asking what they reveal when read slowly.

Wondering

Open questions

Pieces that begin with a question and stay with it, letting the answer arrive, or not, on its own time.

Connecting

One idea, then another

Essays that follow a single thread from one subject to the next, tracing how ideas lead into each other.

New dispatches

Receive new essays as they arrive

A short note whenever a new piece is published. No schedule, no noise.