I find that when asking questions to strangers, its best to think of it as building something for someone else to build something on top of—-that question has t

I find that when asking questions to strangers, its best to think of it as building something for someone else to build something on top of—-that question has to have a certain amount of polish. If you are struggling with the thing in general, its better to find a way to get someone to agree to give you their focused attention. That probably means hiring someone on https://codementor.io https://codementor.io Within a company however, you can often just say “I’m working on X and would like a walkthrough about Y. Can I put some time on you calendar?” However, you still delegating a task to your answerer and so you still want to put thought into how you can set your answerer up for success. There is a post by Julia Evans on asking questions of coworkers which is really helpful for thinking about how to do this: https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/ https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/