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It's funny you mention that reference, because while I like it, I was interested to note that it doesn't go into other areas that happen to be within the sphere
by themodelplumber 4y ago
It's funny you mention that reference, because while I like it, I was interested to note that it doesn't go into other areas that happen to be within the sphere of my own career specialty, areas which I have learned can be relevant in question-asking.
Specifically, Eric's writeup is subject-focused (what YOU do / don't do in order to get a result) rather than object-focused (what to keep in mind based on how people answer; how they are meeting their own subjective needs by answering in specific ways; why that's important to you and relevant to getting good answers, etc.).
This in turn is helpful to know about, because it can help you focus on community patterns and discover important blind spots in group cognition.
As an example, you could end up discovering that your question is effectively unanswerable for your own intents, and implies a broken system of another sort, despite your having received hundreds of passionate and detailed replies to the original question.
IMO there are probably so many perspectives on communication via questions that it's impossible to address them all with a simple framework, but it's kind of a fascinating thing to try, and a neat topic to learn about.