good questions
on the art of asking questions, as well as examples of good questions to use in all areas of your life - team building, interviewing, improving relationships, research, and more
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good questions
What have I enjoyed the most over the last 3.5 years? What was it about those things that I enjoyed?
With an empty calendar, what am I drawn to? How do I want to spend my time?
Who have I learned the most from? Who do I want to learn from? What kind of games could we play together?
What are the rituals I need to develop to continue being able to
In contrast, good planning explores, imagines, analyzes, tests, and iterates. That takes time. Thus, slow is a consequence of doing planning right, not a cause. The cause of good planning is the range and depth of the questions it asks and the imagination and the rigor of the answers it delivers. Notice that I put “questions” before “answers.”
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Their gospel of optimisation ignores the fundamental question: what’s the point of being 10x more productive if we’re not 10x more fulfilled?
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