Yesterday I started participating in the website Quora. Quora is an online community for people to pose questions and answer the questions posed by others. It has been around in 2009 and had 17 million visitors as of February 2016.
At first I was unsure how to get involved. So far I have found three main ways of participating: reading questions that have been answered, answering questions that have been asked, and asking questions. To start I read some answered questions. They were fairly interesting but all over the place and there was definitely a shaky signal-to-noise ratio. I wanted to take a shot at answering some questions, even if I wasn’t the most qualified to do so, as a way to get more into it and get my brain juices flowing. It can be hard to find questions that aren’t already answered but I was able to find some. The topics I have focused on so far have been football, music (particularly songwriting), politics (particularly libertarianism), and management.
I’m hoping to continue answering questions as a brain exercise and to read some interesting threads with answered questions. I posed my first question today (about strategies for libertarian change) and am curious to see if I get any responses.