I appreciate your illumination of the Scholastic format, and especially the quaestio phase. I find I often desire to understand the structure of a writer or spe

I appreciate your illumination of the Scholastic format, and especially the quaestio phase. I find I often desire to understand the structure of a writer or speaker’s thinking, so that I may gain a better sense of how they model the world. One reason why I am given to prefer long-form blog posts or forum replies from subject-matter experts over shorter form content. Answering 5 or 6 questions at once, which all may be divergent in their lines of inquiry, seems like it would help with that. For the questioners, as well, it might promote higher quality, better structured, or more incisive questions. If you’re not going to get a rapid-fire follow up, a la a cable TV debate show, you’re going to have to pack as much as you can into your single inquiry. I haven’t experimented much with how I present my thoughts, but much as Paul Graham has asserted repeatedly, I pursue longer-form writing to better structure my thoughts.