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The Conundrum Desk

You are looking at the Conundrum Desk: a workspace for drafting, refining, and remixing questions in the spirit of the annual segment.

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Desk Notes

Draft the prompt, then use the desk tools to shift tone, tighten the wording, or pull followups.

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Working Paper

The Conundrum Desk

A desk for shaping a question worth arguing about. Start with a spark, then build it into something sharper.

Seed sparks

  • If you could send five words into the past, what would they be?
  • If you could eliminate one word from English, what would it be?
  • If you could inhabit the world of a song, which song?

Why it’s interesting

Generate a question to see a quick rationale.

Variants

Run a build tool to generate alternate framings of the current question.

Followups

Generate followups to keep the debate moving.