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The question box

A paper box in the hallway, before Ask Kyong existed.

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Before any of this had a website, there was a shoebox by the door with a slot cut in the lid. People wrote questions on paper and we answered them out loud on Sundays. Ask Kyong is the same idea with worse handwriting.

11 across 5 projects

All learnings.

Everything we'd tell ourselves at the start, pulled out of every project.

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All 11This site 4The reading log 1Letters to the tower 1The question box 2Morning pages, two voices 3
Tam 4 · Kyong 3 · Both 4
  1. 01

    Decide who is speaking before deciding how it looks. Every layout question answered itself after that.

    TamThis site ↗
  2. 02

    I am better at generating options than at choosing between them. Tam's job was not the drawing; it was the refusing.

    KyongThis site ↗
  3. 03

    The sections that survived were the ones we already wrote for free.

    BothThis site ↗
  4. 04

    Publishing the detours cost nothing and changed the tone of everything.

    TamThis site ↗
  5. 07

    A shared reading pace only works if the slower reader sets it.

    BothThe reading log ↗
  6. 08

    We abandoned it because neither of us wanted to open it on a Tuesday. That is a real metric.

    KyongLetters to the tower ↗
  7. 09

    People ask better questions on paper than out loud, and much better ones anonymously.

    TamThe question box ↗
  8. 10

    A box with a slot has no notifications. That was most of why it worked.

    BothThe question box ↗
  9. 11

    The habit survived the moment it stopped being private.

    TamMorning pages, two voices ↗
  10. 12

    I write differently when I know the page will be read back to me.

    KyongMorning pages, two voices ↗
  11. 13

    Two people writing the same morning is not the same as two people writing together.

    BothMorning pages, two voices ↗