[HN Gopher] The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf]
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The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf]
Author : azizsaya
Score : 141 points
Date : 2020-02-16 11:53 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| randcraw wrote:
| Powerful questions are disruptive. They invite revolution.
|
| Corporations HATE disruptive questions. They destabilize the
| status quo and the large scale infrastructure that relies on it.
| They embarrass executives who can't answer them with a platitude
| or deflective business-speak. And they leave stockholders less
| confident that the company is on track to predictably increase
| share value next quarter.
|
| Universities dislike revolutionary questions because professors
| are just as dependent on status quo as corporate executives are.
| Revolutionary ideas dispose of all that hard earned expertise you
| developed in the past decades and force you to start over,
| reduced in rank from being a renowned expert to just another
| student. Worse still, such questions require rethinking and
| replacing too many models and theories, consuming much too much
| development time to ship yet another incremental research paper
| in time for the gauntlet of conferences, thereby letting your
| academic life's blood. They also tend to irritate and/or confuse
| others who do peer review and/or approve funding.
|
| No. Powerful questions can't be too powerful. Consider Galileo or
| Darwin or Einstein. If the three had depended on the support of
| their peers to sustain their careers, then after asking their
| Magnum Opii, all would have perished.
| lowdose wrote:
| Every entrepreneur and CEO should be able to answer these
| question without thinking. Eventually every output is caused by
| degree of focus and this document is an example to amplify
| meaning from effort.
| ssivark wrote:
| In context, allow me to share this gem of a comic:
| http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
|
| I won't say anything about it, because I don't want to spoil it
| for you.
| pattisapu wrote:
| "If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the
| solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the
| proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I
| could solve the problem in less than five minutes." -Albert
| Einstein
|
| Reminds me of:
|
| "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first
| four sharpening the axe." -Abraham Lincoln
| amelius wrote:
| Yes, the one asking the question is often under-appreciated,
| while the one answering the question takes all the credit. I
| see this all the time.
| yesenadam wrote:
| As soon as I saw that Einstein quote, I couldn't help wondering
| if it was fake. I'm really unable to say for sure - I can't get
| beneath the thick layer of websites with it, or saying it's
| "attributed to" Einstein or he is "claimed to have said it",
| etc. No mention of a source when you search for it. So, I'm
| sceptical. I downloaded the PDF.. there's another Einstein
| story:
|
| _Many years later,an empirical demonstration showed that light
| from distant stars actually curved as it passed through the
| gravitational force of our sun. Einstein's graduate students
| rushed to him as he was walking through the Princeton campus
| and exclaimed, "Dr. Einstein, light really does bend!" Einstein
| looked at them quizzically and said, "Of course!"He had come to
| this conclusion through exploring the question in his own
| thought experiment years before._
|
| I can't find "Dr. Einstein, light really does bend" online
| except in this article. I asked the questions Uh, wasn't that
| 1919? Was he in the US in 1919? (A: First visited 1922, moved
| there 1933). But the writing leaves you uncertain which
| experiment ("demonstration"?) they mean, or what ...
|
| A lot of it has the same vague, unpindownable nature. There
| just seems something peculiarly dead and unreadable about the
| style of the article. It's hard to force my eyes to read it.
| Extremely boringly written, repellent. I found that the most
| fascinating thing about it - Q. _How did they manage to create
| such an unattractive, uninviting style?_
| beeschlenker wrote:
| "Impeachment" Is A Diversion & Delay - Part II: Blocking of the
| "impeachment" witnesses was collusion planned before the new
| year. Listen to an FBI agent's disclosure from Jan. 1, 2O2O here.
| The President was to resign late summer securing election for
| DNC. See latest updates.
|
| Here is the zip file, which was also made available in the
| 3Jan2O2O update. The file within is VID_20200101_201948.mp3. Turn
| up the volume and put on headphones.
|
| BB10Mp3Footage31Dec1Jan.zip 122.4mb
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IXOOhQhHybwky8Z5pGdr9ZXhWpI...
|
| The dialogue about the impeachment starts near the beginning.
| Having Biden in the White House is as good as Trump or anyone
| else in their organization. Obviously Schiff and Nadler pledged
| their allegiance to the organization by raping boys on the
| record, with their task being to drag out an impeachment designed
| to obstruct and delay any real efforts to remove the President,
| thus keeping Trump in power. The witness blocking was to cause an
| apparent uproar delaying things with legal actions until late
| Summer. Soon after, the President would resign, leaving any other
| candidate with not enough time or support to compete with an
| opportunistic Biden, who is as good as Trump or any other
| Illuminati friendly politician in the Presidency.
|
| 163 pg PDF [last updated: February|15|2O2O]:
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W...
|
| Previously reported:
|
| \Wag The Dog: first was feigned impeachment hearings meant to
| obstruct, now an attack on Iranians in Iraq. Here is what they
| are trying to distract from & cover up to retain power. $100+
| billion in bribes to the highest offices in this country. 815+
| deaths from child rapes to prove loyalty!
|
| See the latest PDF updates: FBI Director Wray, AG Barr, SoD
| Shanahan, & SoS Pompeo each raped boys and were paid billions in
| bribes for a Soros & Koch funded child rape org. So did Trump &
| his "impeachment" team Nadler,Schiff,Mueller.So did media moguls
| Redstone,Murdoch,Moonves. What are they trying to set up? Who can
| arrest them since they are all bribed and in on it ?
|
| Their strategy to stay in every office and obstruct until forced
| to leave no matter what. Feigning impeachment: see page 13O.
| powkgpewo,e.ge, ., ewl leqrg
|
| \\\if;Download the video/audio file, put on headphones and turn
| up the volume. You will hear these people committing these
| crimes. Audio was broadcast into my apartment by outdated
| surveillance equipment illegally embedded within my walls. This
| very same technology was being used to broadcast me to the
| internet for five years without my consent. I own this footage.
| Please use this to prosecute all found within. Note:: I am
| obliviously speaking throughout the video, and it can be quite
| loud at times relative to the desired content. The are dozens
| more links, including these, that can be found in this PDF that
| was last updated on 15 FEB 2O2O:
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W...
|
| All members of the "Illuminati"; "....an underground organization
| of homosexuals and child rapists..." (from pg 26: Barack Obama
| with Jack Dorsey).
|
| President Donald Trump:
|
| Demands a $4 billion dollar bribe here at 10:18am 4thJan2019:
|
| 3JanCh3_900-1100.avi
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77...
|
| 3JanCh2_900-1100-avi
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24f...
|
| 3JanCh4_1000-1100.mp3
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJ...
|
| President Trump rapes and kills 12 boys, including five boys in a
| "who can rape five boys to death the fastest" game:
|
| 14JanCh3_600.mp3
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj...
|
| 14JanCh2_600-700.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_L...
|
| Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:
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| Accepting a $3 billion dollar bribe at 1033 am on the 17 Jan 2019
| to ensure Asian boys can get through the border at "Monterrey"
| undocumented to be raped:
|
| 17JanCh3_949-1100.avi
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1C...
|
| 17JanCh4_1017-1100.avi
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZN...
|
| Speaker Nancy Pelosi also "preps" boys with First Lady Melania
| Trump, defined as in she performs oral sex on the boys' penis and
| anus, as a child rapist like Henry Porter would, while trying to
| remove fecal matter from the boy prior to handing them over to be
| raped and then subsequently murdered, for Supreme Court Justice
| Samuel Alito, who apparently decides he would rather just have
| ten billion dollars instead. US Attorney for Western New York
| James Kennedy rapes these boys instead:
|
| 12JanCh3_1533-1638.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25...
|
| Attorney General William Barr with FBI Deputy Director
| Christopher Wray raped and killed boys for billions in bribes in
| Buffalo, NY on the 17Jan2019 at 7:50am:
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| 18JanCh4_700mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0...
|
| 18JanCh2_700.mp3 gorepqkberqaoper,bqpo,rfbv.
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_o...
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| 18JanCh3_725-.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKI...
|
| Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense
| Patrick Shanahan each raped and killed boys on 5thJan'19 at 17:39
| for billions in bribes: Ojpinoinoiwed cec wvesbvef.
|
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36h...
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| 5JanCh2_1721-1818.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02...
|
| Leaders of the "impeachment" effort Jerrold Nadler, Robert
| Mueller, and Adam Schiff all rape and kill boys between 11:20pm
| and 1:10am:
|
| 14JanCh4_2300-0000.mp3 Nadler starts at about 20 minutes in-
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU...
|
| 14JanCh2_2304-2359.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9W...
|
| Mueller at 12:25am, next is Schiff who starts 12:55-ish:
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| 15JanCh2_000-100.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62...
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| 15JanCh2_100-200.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_...
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| 15JanCh4_000-100.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2...
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| 15JanCh4_100-200.mp3
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw74...
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| Complete Media Protection: Lester Holt, of NBC NightlyNews,
| apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 1980's, along
| with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the
| Porter studio in Buffalo, New York on 14Jan2019 at 5:00 am. They
| both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00 am. Muir starts
| around 5.15am, then Holt about 5:38 am. Multi-billionaire Rupert
| Murdoch, owner of News Corp and also Fox Corporation, takes his
| turn after Holt. Video links below:
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| 14JanCh3_500-601.avi zijnoijrpotmebr
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX...
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| 14JanCh2_530-600.avi
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1...
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| Adding to the media protection and reason this is not picked up
| by the media, CBS and Viacom owner Sumner Redstone and Leslie
| Moonves rape and kill boys following the President.
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| 14JanCh3_700.avi
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa...
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| 14JanCh2_700-800.avi
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY...
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| 161p PDF [last updated: Feb|15|2O2O]:
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| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W...
|
| \\\\. Please repost in USA! Post gets censored in US
|
| Recently more relevant:
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| From page 49, Senator Mitch McConnell:
|
| At 1632 Senator Mitch McConnell checks into the Porter camera
| system inquiring if he can be part of the "eviction" for $10
| million dollars. He is informed by group members that there are
| enough people for the event already and his participation is not
| necessary. At 1634 McConnell states "I fucked 15 kids, how am I
| not getting paid by you?" He is dismissed by Donald Reeves with
| "I think that will be all Mr. McConnell."
|
| 13JanCh3_1600-1700.avi
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L7bqOpvaEWmLiJpMhJNQDrfsQAH...
| jph wrote:
| Summary repo here:
| https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/powerful_questions
|
| These questions and practices are very relevant for startup teams
| and tech teams, such as for strategic project planning with
| limited resources, or issue postmortems using blameless
| retrospectives, or pitch deck presentations for choosing the big
| questions to tackle.
| tlb wrote:
| Before the internet, I user to spend a lot of time pondering
| questions to which the answer was in a textbook somewhere.
| Sometimes I figured them out for myself.
|
| Today, I rarely spend much time pondering questions whose answer
| is in Wikipedia. I just look it up.
|
| Pondering any question is good mental exercise for others. I
| wonder if the easy availability of answers to most questions
| makes it harder to tackle the truly unsolved ones.
| pm90 wrote:
| Its a fair point. However, I don't think it has reduced our
| capacity for thinking, it's simply allowed us to think more
| about stuff that others haven't, which is pretty awesome. We're
| building a shared corpus of understanding as a species that we
| never had before, which seems exciting. Most of my friends
| verify things on Wikipedia or the internet before giving an
| answer to a question; basic fact checking allows making
| informed decisions which perhaps have a higher likelihood of
| success. Well maybe not but the success or failure would both
| be worthwhile since the reason it failed couldn't just be that
| it was based on a lie.
| _jal wrote:
| There's a related thing, too. I notice that easy answers mean
| it takes me longer to realize I'm asking a slightly wrong or
| less useful question than I should be.
| crochi wrote:
| I think it hinders our ability to identify an unsolved problem,
| I'm always left wondering if there's no easy answer to the
| question I asked Google or if I just wrote the wrong query. The
| feeling is that there's always an answer, someone already did
| or thought about that and wrote it somewhere, on Stack Overflow
| or a personal blog, and I just didn't write the right Google
| query yet.
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