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 are the layers of resistance you have to overcome?
"Are you still under the illusion that you'll one day reach a point in your life where you no longer have any problems?"
Oliver Burkeman • What if you never sort your life out?
re: generative AI: why should anybody be expected to read something you couldn't be bothered to write?
- Does this feel like something I’m uniquely capable of?
- Is this how I want to spend my time and energy?*
- What is the right shape/size for this project?
- What stresses does this add to my life?
- How should this feel if it’s going well?
Behzod Sirjani • Yet Another Year in Review - Year 03.5 — Behzod
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Warren Berger • 4 highlights
amazon.com
Now that we’ve made sharing information virtually effortless, how do we increase depth of understanding, while also creating a level playing field that encourages ideas that come from anywhere?
Ev Williams • New Decade, New Ideas
Latvia’s Flow won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and was created because he was somehow obsessed Blender, the free/open-source 3D modeling tool. It’s now consensus that it’s just a matter of time that an AI-made film could be a worthy contender in mainstream awards. Creative production pipelines are increasingly “node graph native.” ComfyUI’s... See more
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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.”
... See moreBent Flyvbjerg • How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Google is standardizing interview questions (finally?) so I am forced to retire my bootleg interview questions. In honor of the great service they've done over 200+ PM interviews, I'm going to do a thread that I expect no one to read but I have no other way to memorialize them.
Chris Perrytwitter.comgreat interview questions for PMs!