Ola Aiyegbayo
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Ola Aiyegbayo
The skilful bookshop owner and the gifted editor have lessons for our professional lives as well as our pleasures. Can you make connections other people cannot? Can you identify a helpful analogy? Will you bring an outsider’s perspective? Can you reconfigure existing information in a new and original way? Can you take one position while still inhab
... See moreEd Smith • Making Decisions
behold the beauty of the follow-up question.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
This is what questions do: they pull the right stuff into your brain.
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers Long Questions/Short Answers
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss
Gillian Tett • Anthro-Vision
My job is to ask the right questions, find answers to them and let my curiosity lead me to better questions.
Rule of thumb: You should be terrified of at least one of the questions you’re asking in every conversation.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
In an expert-run industrialized economy, there’s a lot of pressure to be the one who’s sure, the person with all the answers. Far more valuable is someone who has all the questions. The ability to figure out what hasn’t been figured out and see what hasn’t been seen is a significant advantage. Rarest of all is the person with the humility (and conf
... See moreseths.blog • All the Answers | Seth's Blog
But then the counting started, and with it came an explosion of new information. The advent of modern sports analysis techniques means that now data is collected on every detail of every ball in every First Class or List A cricket match in the world. For many of those matches and for all internationals and major T20 leagues we also have Hawk-Eye (o
... See moreBen Jones • Hitting Against the Spin
Data analytics and asking the right questions of the data. Collecting the right data is the first step and then asking the right questions of it is the second and them testing the answers for validity and reliability is the third step.
There was one other key finding in the Harvard study of speed daters: Follow-up questions are particularly powerful. “Follow-ups are a signal that you’re listening, that you want to know more,” one of the researchers, Michael Yeomans, told me. Follow-up questions make reciprocity easier (“Your favorite part of college was ultimate frisbee? Me too!
... See moreCharles Duhigg • Supercommunicators
Most important, to squeeze insights out of Big Data, you have to ask the right questions. Just as you can’t point a telescope randomly at the night sky and have it discover Pluto for you, you can’t download a whole bunch of data and have it discover the secrets of human nature for you. You must look in promising places—Google searches that begin “m
... See moreSeth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies
Only the right questions and right skill sets will get the right answers and insights out of the right data slide from big data.