The best place to ask questions for me is the internet. It is regularly so hostile and rules lawyerly that I have to collect everything I know about the proble

The best place to ask questions for me is the internet. It is regularly so hostile and rules lawyerly that I have to collect everything I know about the problem into the post, and pre-empt every objection with an existing fact. And, once I do that, I'm almost always close enough to the solution that I don't need to press "post." Just typing what I know into the Stack Overflow window, and imagining all the objections to the question, structures my question to the point of finding the answer!