Leah Gerber

Topics

The same question, pointed at different rooms.

Everything here is one inquiry. These are the places it keeps turning up, and the questions waiting in each.

Work & Business

  • What changed around you before your work did?
  • Why do two people leave the same meeting with two different meetings?
  • What have you never told a manager because there was no safe way to say it?

Creativity

  • What happened in the 24 hours before your best work?

Memory & Learning

  • Why do I remember everything about you except your name?

Relationships & Family

  • Can two people be in the same room and not be in the same environment?
  • What happens to your conditions when you live inside someone else’s?
  • What does a relationship need before either person can say what they need?
  • What happens to a marriage lived in a second language?
  • Do two people become each other’s environment?

Age & Time

  • Do your conditions change as you age, or does the world stop making room for them?
  • What did you need at twenty-five that you no longer need?

Identity

  • What happens when your environment changes who you think you are?

Education

  • Are we measuring ability, or performance under conditions we chose?

Health & Performance

  • How much sleep do you need, and how would you know?
  • What kind of break do you actually need?
  • When does time speed up for you, and what was true when it did?

Home & Environment

  • What environment reliably makes you worse at something you’re normally good at?

Life Design

  • What if productivity isn’t the right outcome?