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The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Amanda Palmer • 8 highlights

How to have more meaningful conversations. The Rose-Bud-Thorn Framework:

Closed questions are also bad questions. Instead of surrendering power, the questioner is imposing a limit on how the question can be answered.

19 Things You Can Say to People in 10 Seconds That Sometimes Produce Insanely Outsized Effects

1. Yeah, someone *should* do that. Why not you?

2. Is there something you could do about that problem in the next five minutes?

3. That's a great thought - have you written it up somewhere? I'd be excited to share it if so.

4. Should you write a blog or