What is question formulation?

Example: You read a paper on decision-making under uncertainty. Instead of highlighting three sentences, you write one question: 'Under what conditions does gathering more information actually reduce decision quality?' That question sits in your knowledge system for weeks. Then a colleague mentions analysis paralysis in a meeting, and the question fires — connecting two domains you never would have linked if you'd only stored the highlight.

This concept is part of Atomicity and Decomposition in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for atomicity and decomposition.