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
Their gospel of optimisation ignores the fundamental question: what’s the point of being 10x more productive if we’re not 10x more fulfilled?
337 / Productivity’s empty promise
this hurdle I have to jump over each time I write: How can I say this more crisply? When I write (which is really just to say: when I think) it all boils down to one simple, but utterly excruciating question: What am I really trying to say here?
Isabel Hazan • distillation
How to balance investing in a great user experience with short term revenue generation?
Does the idea align with the zeitgeist and culture of the time?
Does the idea resonate with the repressed aspects of people's identities during that period?
Get good at asking the right questions. Elon said, the answer is usually the easy part. The hard part is asking the right questions. Questions are the only tool we have to inquire about this reality. It is our pickaxe to inspect the world we live in. It also happens to be the backbone of our cognition, we literally think in questions. Getting good... See more
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"The best advice is not to tell people what to do, but to ask them the right questions. Find out what's going on in their head, and help them frame that in a way that's useful." – @gtdguy
Visakan Veerasamytwitter.comLife 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
What are the layers of resistance you have to overcome?
Reid Hoffman and Tyler Cownen recently talked about how AI is good at answering questions but not at asking them—as The Diff noted on Saturday, that makes perfect sense given how the models are constructed: they're trying to predict the highest-probability next token, i.e. they're relentlessly searching for a local maximum. But good questions are a... See more