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
Has anyone ever studied or written about physicians & sex? Are disembodied overworked doctors who ignore pee/eat signals able to drop into body & have good sex? How do we code switch from body as disease to body as pleasure? Would any doctors even talk about this? đź’Ą #medtwitter
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
Three questions I’ve enjoyed the answers to lately
1) what’s the hardest thing you’d do if the rule was you couldn’t ever tell anyone about it?
2) a genie gives you three wishes, what do you ask for?
3) what game are you playing and what problem unlocks the next... See more
So I’m asking, What is the change I’m trying to make? And, Who’s it for and what’s it for? And then I ask things like, What’s the medium that will help it get there? Is it a blog post, or a talk? Or is it a book? What box does it fit in?
Engineering is (unconsciously) driven by the assumption that humanity’s needs for speed, comfort, materialism, and convenience are limitless. What if we introduced limits (economic, human, and ecological limits) to people’s needs? How would engineers design the things we use in a world that sets limits to growth?
Nowadays, there are four things that are gonna decide if I have a good day. Did I sleep enough? Did I connect deeply with people I love? Did I get some time to myself? Did I make choices for my body that felt good—like, did I take a good walk, did I eat healthy, did I exercise? If I get those four things in place, usually my days are pretty good.