Hitting the floor is a great feeling and makes me realize that the adults weren’t actually saying anything that complicated or icky after all. Another brought me to the founding of ISIS.
Digging into another part of the story brought me to the end of World War I. My perfectionism kicks in and I end up refusing to stop going down the rabbit hole until I hit the floor.įor example, I kind of got the Iraq situation, but there was a lot of fog there too-so when I wrote a post about it, one fog-clearing rabbit hole took me all the way back to Muhammad in 570AD.
So then I research that new fog, and again, often come across other fog even further down. The way I approach a post like that is I’ll start with the surface of the topic and ask myself what I don’t fully get-I look for those foggy spots in the story where when someone mentions it or it comes up in an article I’m reading, my mind kind of glazes over with a combination of “ugh it’s that icky term again nah go away” and “ew the adults are saying that adult thing again and I’m seven so I don’t actually understand what they’re talking about.” Then I’ll get reading about those foggy spots-but as I clear away fog from the surface, I often find more fog underneath.
One type of WBW post is the “let’s just take this whole topic and really actually get to the bottom of it so we can all completely get it from here forward.” The ideal topic for that kind of post is one that’s really important to our lives, and that tends to come up a lot, but that’s also hugely complex and confusing, often controversial with differing information coming out of different mouths, and that ends up leaving a lot of people feeling like they don’t totally get it as well as they “should.” PDF and ebook options: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing (see a preview here), and an ebook containing the whole four-part Elon Musk series:Ī Wait But Why post can be a few different things. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, start with Part 1. This is Part 2 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies.
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