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

sari and

Instead of asking: "Do you have any questions?", ask "What questions do you have?" The first almost always results in silence, while the second helps people feel comfortable asking questions.

alex and

Life is a series of problems to be analyzed and addressed. How do we fix our failing schools? How do we reduce violence? These problem-centered questions are usually the wrong ones to ask. They focus on deficits, not gifts. A problem conversation tends to focus on one moment in time—the moment when a student didn’t graduate from high school, the... See more

David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

sari

Very Little Gravitas

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sari

alex

University of Auntimoany Ethnographical Questionnaire

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phoebe

if being online makes me feel bad, why am I here? By that I mean, what am I here chasing? What am I hoping to get or fulfill? And is there a better way to get that?

Alara

as a leader, how do you decide whether to optimize or innovate?

not that you can’t do both at the same time — it’s really a matter of degree. but it’s an important matter of degree.

sari

We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”

The On Being Project • Living the Questions

Natalie Audelo

What does slow AI look like?

Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?

ssari

We’ve assumed that the way we interact with it is instantaneous. Are we sure that’s right? What if we want to see things, refine things, consider things. I think we want to mull them over. I think we want to discuss them.