Ola Aiyegbayo
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Ola Aiyegbayo
behold the beauty of the follow-up question.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
The questions you ask are signifiers that you are listening. Try to construct each question as a follow-up to a previous answer.
Steve Portigal • Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
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
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
The very premise and structure of this book is to teach you to ask more probing questions. It starts with the most important, and sometimes hardest, question: “What's the problem?”
Jordan Goldmeier • Becoming a Data Head
What is the problem we are trying to solve? Why is this a problem? Is this the most important problem to solve? How do you know this? What would the answer to this problem enable you to do in terms of outcomes (which is changing human behaviour)?
Change is inevitable; your job as an observer is to find out where and how it will occur. The answers to that question can often be surprising.
Christian Madsbjerg • Look
What football had not witnessed, Anderson and Sally felt, was an analytics revolution. Plenty of people were reading the numbers and taking note of what they said: these are the players who have sprinted the most, these are the number of shots we have taken and the rest. But nobody – as far as they could tell, at least – was trying to find out what
... See moreRory Smith • Expected Goals
It boils down to identifying the right data (signal) in the big data (noise) and the ability to ask the right questions of the signal in order to generate actionable insights. There is also need for thick data as well.
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
If you want to make someone think, ask them a question. A good question can change someone’s perspective, which can change everything. “A change in perspective,” said Alan Kay, “is worth 80 IQ points.”
Eddie Shleyner • Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter
Closed questions are also bad questions. Instead of surrendering power, the questioner is imposing a limit on how the question can be answered. For example, if you mention your mother and I ask, “Were you close?,” then I’ve limited your description of your relationship with your mother to the close/distant frame. It’s better to ask, “How is your
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