Lynn Borton
@choosetobecurious.bsky.social
Producer & Host of Choose to Be Curious radio show/podcast - we talk about research and theory, but mostly it’s conversations about how curiosity shows up in work and life. choosetobecurious.com
Now might be a good time to remind some folks that climate change and health hazards don’t really care if we believe in them or not.
February 13, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Now might be a good time to remind some folks that climate change and health hazards don’t really care if we believe in them or not.
Yale lecturer Jimmy Hatch offered what may be my favorite description of curiosity yet: "Curiosity is the thing that drives you to figure out who you really are."
Just the tip of his curiosity conversation iceberg. Link to full convo below... #choosetobecurious
Just the tip of his curiosity conversation iceberg. Link to full convo below... #choosetobecurious
February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Yale lecturer Jimmy Hatch offered what may be my favorite description of curiosity yet: "Curiosity is the thing that drives you to figure out who you really are."
Just the tip of his curiosity conversation iceberg. Link to full convo below... #choosetobecurious
Just the tip of his curiosity conversation iceberg. Link to full convo below... #choosetobecurious
James Hatch spent 26 years in military service, 22 of them as a Navy SEAL.
In 2019, at age 52, Jimmy enrolled as Yale's oldest freshman ever.
Now, he tries to bridge the growing divide between the two worlds that shaped him. #curiosity #courage #perspecive
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In 2019, at age 52, Jimmy enrolled as Yale's oldest freshman ever.
Now, he tries to bridge the growing divide between the two worlds that shaped him. #curiosity #courage #perspecive
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"Curiosity is the thing that drives you to figure out who you really are," with Jimmy Hatch
”Basically, being comfortable is dangerous. If you’re not asking questions and trying to figure out more about life, are you really living?” ~ Jimmy Hatch James Hatch spent 26 years in military servic...
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February 12, 2026 at 11:43 AM
James Hatch spent 26 years in military service, 22 of them as a Navy SEAL.
In 2019, at age 52, Jimmy enrolled as Yale's oldest freshman ever.
Now, he tries to bridge the growing divide between the two worlds that shaped him. #curiosity #courage #perspecive
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In 2019, at age 52, Jimmy enrolled as Yale's oldest freshman ever.
Now, he tries to bridge the growing divide between the two worlds that shaped him. #curiosity #courage #perspecive
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"The pedagogical question opens up and empowers the child to not only learn about what's been queried about, but also opening up the possibility that there could still be lots of other stuff to explore." --> @ebonawitz.bsky.social on pedagogical questions FTW!
Link to conversation below
Link to conversation below
February 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
"The pedagogical question opens up and empowers the child to not only learn about what's been queried about, but also opening up the possibility that there could still be lots of other stuff to explore." --> @ebonawitz.bsky.social on pedagogical questions FTW!
Link to conversation below
Link to conversation below
💥💥💥 I laughed out loud at this affirmation of why I keep doing this!
“I make it extremely clear to the students that they will be dissatisfied if they expect that there will be a clear definition of #curiosity by the end of the class..." @ebonawitz.bsky.social
“I make it extremely clear to the students that they will be dissatisfied if they expect that there will be a clear definition of #curiosity by the end of the class..." @ebonawitz.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 12:37 PM
💥💥💥 I laughed out loud at this affirmation of why I keep doing this!
“I make it extremely clear to the students that they will be dissatisfied if they expect that there will be a clear definition of #curiosity by the end of the class..." @ebonawitz.bsky.social
“I make it extremely clear to the students that they will be dissatisfied if they expect that there will be a clear definition of #curiosity by the end of the class..." @ebonawitz.bsky.social
Kids are #learning machines!
But how do they do it?
Cognitive scientist @ebonawitz.bsky.social is helping us understand how children learn to learn and what role #curiosity has to play in those processes.
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But how do they do it?
Cognitive scientist @ebonawitz.bsky.social is helping us understand how children learn to learn and what role #curiosity has to play in those processes.
lynnborton.com/2026/02/05/c...
Curiosity, Kids & Learning to Learn, with Elizabeth Bonawitz
Kids are learning machines! But how do they do it? Behavioral scientist Elizabeth Bonawitz is helping us understand how children learn to learn and what role curiosity has to play in those processes. ...
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February 5, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Kids are #learning machines!
But how do they do it?
Cognitive scientist @ebonawitz.bsky.social is helping us understand how children learn to learn and what role #curiosity has to play in those processes.
lynnborton.com/2026/02/05/c...
But how do they do it?
Cognitive scientist @ebonawitz.bsky.social is helping us understand how children learn to learn and what role #curiosity has to play in those processes.
lynnborton.com/2026/02/05/c...
At least the groundhog is curious!
February 2, 2026 at 5:08 PM
At least the groundhog is curious!
Prepping for a curiosity conversation about Chronolog.io and citizen science, I came across this wonderful assortment of cool efforts...Federally-funded research may be on the ropes, but you can't tell me people don't care! #citizenscience #choosetobecurious www.the-scientist.com/curious-mind...
February 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Prepping for a curiosity conversation about Chronolog.io and citizen science, I came across this wonderful assortment of cool efforts...Federally-funded research may be on the ropes, but you can't tell me people don't care! #citizenscience #choosetobecurious www.the-scientist.com/curious-mind...
"If we're using curiosity as a civic duty, then we're understanding before we're judging."
More universal wisdom from emergency doc Chris Ford.
#choosetobecurious
More universal wisdom from emergency doc Chris Ford.
#choosetobecurious
January 31, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"If we're using curiosity as a civic duty, then we're understanding before we're judging."
More universal wisdom from emergency doc Chris Ford.
#choosetobecurious
More universal wisdom from emergency doc Chris Ford.
#choosetobecurious
Uh-oh! The Big Jar of Wannabe Analogies is almost out of words.
You know how this works: at the end of (almost) every show, I invite guests to join me in making an analogy to curiosity with words we draw from my jar.
Please drop your word offerings below 👇
Thank you! #curiosity #analogy 🙏
You know how this works: at the end of (almost) every show, I invite guests to join me in making an analogy to curiosity with words we draw from my jar.
Please drop your word offerings below 👇
Thank you! #curiosity #analogy 🙏
January 30, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Uh-oh! The Big Jar of Wannabe Analogies is almost out of words.
You know how this works: at the end of (almost) every show, I invite guests to join me in making an analogy to curiosity with words we draw from my jar.
Please drop your word offerings below 👇
Thank you! #curiosity #analogy 🙏
You know how this works: at the end of (almost) every show, I invite guests to join me in making an analogy to curiosity with words we draw from my jar.
Please drop your word offerings below 👇
Thank you! #curiosity #analogy 🙏
“Curiosity is a protection against anchoring on a diagnosis.” Dr. Chris Ford was talking about medicine, but I think it’s pretty solid advice for living.
#choosetobecurious
#choosetobecurious
January 30, 2026 at 3:27 PM
“Curiosity is a protection against anchoring on a diagnosis.” Dr. Chris Ford was talking about medicine, but I think it’s pretty solid advice for living.
#choosetobecurious
#choosetobecurious
"When we stop being curious is when we stop seeing people as people" and other wisdom from emergency medicine's own Dr. Chris Ford.
Full convo linked below. #choosetobecurious
Full convo linked below. #choosetobecurious
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
"When we stop being curious is when we stop seeing people as people" and other wisdom from emergency medicine's own Dr. Chris Ford.
Full convo linked below. #choosetobecurious
Full convo linked below. #choosetobecurious
“#Curiosity – it’s not just for the scientists. It’s not just for the philosophers. It’s what drives the best clinicians in every emergency department and, frankly, in all of #medicine.” ~ Chris Ford,MD
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Curiosity in Emergency Medicine, with Dr. Chris Ford
How does an emergency department doctor manage the chaotic swirl of unknowns that show up at their door every day? What are they to make of the needs that emerge from the complex socioeconomic soup in...
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January 29, 2026 at 12:03 PM
“#Curiosity – it’s not just for the scientists. It’s not just for the philosophers. It’s what drives the best clinicians in every emergency department and, frankly, in all of #medicine.” ~ Chris Ford,MD
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"Being in relationship in a positive way really makers, and it's something that all of us can do."
A timely and timeless reminder from Palma Joy Strand Civity's co-founder and director of research. #choosetobecurious
A timely and timeless reminder from Palma Joy Strand Civity's co-founder and director of research. #choosetobecurious
January 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
"Being in relationship in a positive way really makers, and it's something that all of us can do."
A timely and timeless reminder from Palma Joy Strand Civity's co-founder and director of research. #choosetobecurious
A timely and timeless reminder from Palma Joy Strand Civity's co-founder and director of research. #choosetobecurious
"I see difference between being curious and practicing curiosity." ~ Malka Ranjana Kopell, co-founder Civity
We might feel curious but not feel able to act on it - so we talk about how to strike a balance and build community with little DIY strategies...
link to full convo below + BONUS segment
We might feel curious but not feel able to act on it - so we talk about how to strike a balance and build community with little DIY strategies...
link to full convo below + BONUS segment
January 23, 2026 at 6:06 PM
"I see difference between being curious and practicing curiosity." ~ Malka Ranjana Kopell, co-founder Civity
We might feel curious but not feel able to act on it - so we talk about how to strike a balance and build community with little DIY strategies...
link to full convo below + BONUS segment
We might feel curious but not feel able to act on it - so we talk about how to strike a balance and build community with little DIY strategies...
link to full convo below + BONUS segment
There just wasn't enough room for all the richness in my convo with Civity co-founders Malka Kopell & Palma Joy Strand, so there are 6 more great minutes.
"We're all just drops in the pond, putting those ripples out. No matter how small the gesture feels, it causes a ripple, nonetheless." Link VVV
"We're all just drops in the pond, putting those ripples out. No matter how small the gesture feels, it causes a ripple, nonetheless." Link VVV
January 22, 2026 at 12:54 PM
There just wasn't enough room for all the richness in my convo with Civity co-founders Malka Kopell & Palma Joy Strand, so there are 6 more great minutes.
"We're all just drops in the pond, putting those ripples out. No matter how small the gesture feels, it causes a ripple, nonetheless." Link VVV
"We're all just drops in the pond, putting those ripples out. No matter how small the gesture feels, it causes a ripple, nonetheless." Link VVV
Malka Kopell & Palma Strand co-founded Civity, a national NPO that works with people to build the relational infrastructure necessary for communities in which everyone has what they need to thrive.
#Curiosity plays an important part, but not just any curiosity…
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#Curiosity plays an important part, but not just any curiosity…
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Civity: Engaging Others with Respect, Empathy & Curiosity, with Malka Ranjana Kopell & Palma Joy Strand
Malka Ranjana Kopell and Palma Joy Strand are co-founders of Civity, a word they created to describe a culture of deliberately engaging in relationships of respect and empathy with others who are diff...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Malka Kopell & Palma Strand co-founded Civity, a national NPO that works with people to build the relational infrastructure necessary for communities in which everyone has what they need to thrive.
#Curiosity plays an important part, but not just any curiosity…
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#Curiosity plays an important part, but not just any curiosity…
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Any conversation with Keris Jän Myrick is a gift, this one perhaps in particular. What a privilege to join her podcast Unapologetically Black Unicorns and to feel our way forward together. Choosing to be curious as a strategy of #hope.
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“If They Steal Me of My Hope They’ve Taken Everything” with Lynn Borton | Unapologetically Black Unicorns
Lynn Borton (she/her) is a producer and host of nationally-syndicated radio show and podcast CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS and she is an Unapologetically Black Unicorn. They come together to explore how we can...
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January 21, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Any conversation with Keris Jän Myrick is a gift, this one perhaps in particular. What a privilege to join her podcast Unapologetically Black Unicorns and to feel our way forward together. Choosing to be curious as a strategy of #hope.
unapologeticallyblackunicorns.podbean.com/e/if-they-st...
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JUST TRY IT! #choosetobecurious
A curiosity practice for the ages, thanks to Alicia Towns Franken of Wine Unify.
A curiosity practice for the ages, thanks to Alicia Towns Franken of Wine Unify.
January 17, 2026 at 7:48 PM
JUST TRY IT! #choosetobecurious
A curiosity practice for the ages, thanks to Alicia Towns Franken of Wine Unify.
A curiosity practice for the ages, thanks to Alicia Towns Franken of Wine Unify.
When you put your nose in a glass of wine, just take a moment -- smell it.
What does i smell like before you even taste it?
And then taste it.
How has it changed?
Just ask yourself some questions.
It doesn't have to be so highbrow.
~ Alicia Towns Franken, Wine Unify
#choosetobecurious
What does i smell like before you even taste it?
And then taste it.
How has it changed?
Just ask yourself some questions.
It doesn't have to be so highbrow.
~ Alicia Towns Franken, Wine Unify
#choosetobecurious
January 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
When you put your nose in a glass of wine, just take a moment -- smell it.
What does i smell like before you even taste it?
And then taste it.
How has it changed?
Just ask yourself some questions.
It doesn't have to be so highbrow.
~ Alicia Towns Franken, Wine Unify
#choosetobecurious
What does i smell like before you even taste it?
And then taste it.
How has it changed?
Just ask yourself some questions.
It doesn't have to be so highbrow.
~ Alicia Towns Franken, Wine Unify
#choosetobecurious
Alicia Towns Franken embodies a tantalizing combination: #wine & a boots-on-the-ground effort to encourage and enable curiosity where barriers have long existed.
What if we make wine more #accessible by encouraging curiosity more #inclusively?
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What if we make wine more #accessible by encouraging curiosity more #inclusively?
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Wine & A Taste for Curiosity, with Alicia Towns Franken
Alicia Towns Franken embodies a tantalizing combination: wine --as another in my periodic series on curiosity and our senses--and an actual boots-on-the-ground effort to encourage and enable curiosity...
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January 15, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Alicia Towns Franken embodies a tantalizing combination: #wine & a boots-on-the-ground effort to encourage and enable curiosity where barriers have long existed.
What if we make wine more #accessible by encouraging curiosity more #inclusively?
lynnborton.com/2026/01/15/w... #choosetobecurious
What if we make wine more #accessible by encouraging curiosity more #inclusively?
lynnborton.com/2026/01/15/w... #choosetobecurious
"If you're interested in learning from failure, you have to be curious. You can't just say , 'Oh, it went wrong. It didn't work. Let's move on...'" ~ Samuel West, founder Museum of Failure #choosetobecurious
January 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM
"If you're interested in learning from failure, you have to be curious. You can't just say , 'Oh, it went wrong. It didn't work. Let's move on...'" ~ Samuel West, founder Museum of Failure #choosetobecurious
A great curiosity [or FAILURE!] prompt: ask yourself "what can I learn from it?"
More from Samuel West of Museum of Failure in comments.
More from Samuel West of Museum of Failure in comments.
January 10, 2026 at 7:38 PM
A great curiosity [or FAILURE!] prompt: ask yourself "what can I learn from it?"
More from Samuel West of Museum of Failure in comments.
More from Samuel West of Museum of Failure in comments.
A little something at the end of a very long week.
Especially now: get curious -- what lights you up?
#choosetobecurious
Especially now: get curious -- what lights you up?
#choosetobecurious
January 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
A little something at the end of a very long week.
Especially now: get curious -- what lights you up?
#choosetobecurious
Especially now: get curious -- what lights you up?
#choosetobecurious
"You think you have life figured out -- and that's a very dangerous notion -- because once you think you've got everything figured out, you stop being curious." ~ Samuel West, Museum of Failure
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January 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
"You think you have life figured out -- and that's a very dangerous notion -- because once you think you've got everything figured out, you stop being curious." ~ Samuel West, Museum of Failure
Link below to convo
Link below to convo