{"id":46,"date":"2026-02-03T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:25:04","slug":"40-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"40 questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my <a href=\"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/?p=1\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1\">previous post<\/a>, I talked a bit about how writing helps me think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the things that help me with that, is finding interesting prompts for writing. I stumbled over an excellent one a little while ago in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pom.show\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.pom.show\">podcast<\/a> I listen to. This one is especially interesting now the end of the year is rapidly approaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the list of 40 questions that Stephan Ango (CEO of Obsidian) asks himself every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Each year I ask myself these 40 questions.<br><br>This will be my eleventh year. It&#39;s still one of my favorite rituals. It helps me see how phases of my life wax and wane.<br><br>Each year since 2016, new translations come in. We&#39;re up to 30 languages! Thank you to all the contributors \ud83e\udd70 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bh6hH991vg\">https:\/\/t.co\/bh6hH991vg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; kepano (@kepano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kepano\/status\/1864322717819838883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I recently found it, i used the list &#8220;as is&#8221; today. It already helped me think about things and led to some frantic writing in my journal but also in my todo-app. I will probably change it a bit every year, but for now this was a great start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also helped me to identify some gaps in the things I keep track of over the year, so there will be some changes made to my &#8220;lifetrackers&#8221; as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go have a look, I can almost guarantee the list will make you think, and that always helps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I talked a bit about how writing helps me think. One of the things that help me with that, is finding interesting prompts for writing. I stumbled over an excellent one a little while ago in a podcast I listen to. This one is especially interesting now the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thinking","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timbruls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}