One of my favorite topics is how to ask the right questions in complex situations, and my favorite thing to illustrate that is a Poirot-Hastings exchange in Agatha Christie's Lord Edgware Dies.
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My summary slide on what makes for good vs. bad question in mystery solving. These slides are from a 2011 talk btw. slideshare.net/vgururao/socal
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So far, I haven't found any really good questions by my criteria. The best I've found so far is "why does the money printer go brrr meme work so well right now?" Wrote up my answer in a newsletter yesterday, which is paywalled because I'm slightly evil. twitter.com/breaking_smart
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Short takeaway is: we are living through a collision of what I call polynomial normalcy escaped realities versus exponential weirdness escaped realities. I'm happy with that question and my answer, but need to find more, and better questions to ask and answer.
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