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
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
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!
It's a question most of us could do with asking ourselves. I think virtually everyone, except perhaps the very Zen or very old, goes through life haunted to some degree by the feeling that this isn't quite the real thing, not just yet – that soon enough, we'll get everything in working order, get organised, get our personal issues resolved, but
... See moreOliver Burkeman • What if you never sort your life out?
Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
is it possible for an artwork to reshape the fear and bias we have developed over the last two pandemic years towards the idea of being interconnected? how can we embrace co-presence, shared affect, and forces of nature that move between us and bind us in a way that is celebratory, creative, or poetic??
from: https://windchime.world/
Imagine you are at the end of your life and you are granted the ability to repeat one day. Which period of your life do you choose to repeat? Which phase of life would you want to go back to? Does that tell you anything about how you should be spending your time today?
3-2-1: On managing expectations, and the importance of trial and error
via Theaster Gates
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?