Begin.

Write down answers, thoughts and questions as you go.
Book mark and return to what takes too long or confuses.
Document interrelations, anecdotes, analogies, metaphors and thoughts.
Highlight questions to explore or share with others. End.

Question what did, is, could, should and shouldn’t.

Investigate unknowns. Weigh author and self bias.

Confirm assumptions. Learn from misconceptions. Contemplate. Debate.
Consider what may happen after what could probably happen next.
Execute. Examine new information. Begin again.

Why is this thus?

What is the reason for this thusness?

Artemus Ward

To leave others better off for my having existed.

…the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course,

fully and in its own right.

The second generation receives it clear

of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on.

For if the first could charge it with a debt,

then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation.

Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid

during the course of its own existence.

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Have many betrayed their children’s future,
by indenturing offspring to finance a more pleasant present?