If you ask the top people for their opinions first, you won’t get effective advice from the people below them.
A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.
When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.
Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.
When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.
Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
At Los Alamos, visitors Niels Bohr and brother Harald obeyed Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry by running their ideas on the current work by Richard Feynman before asking anyone higher up.
by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025
Get the Kelly’s Rule of Inquirymug. As AI improves, fewer people will be able to demonstrate by virtue of their intelligence that they are not computers.
As AI becomes better at diagnosing than doctors, Turing's Lemma applies. Customer service is a profession in which Turing's Lemma does not yet apply, unfortunately.
by WhatwasIsaying February 5, 2025
Get the Turing's Lemmamug. How was I supposed to know?
by WhatwasIsaying February 27, 2025
Get the HWISTKmug. In blackjack, you try to get as close to 21 wogo.
On the Price is Right, you win if you're closest to the price wogo.
On the Price is Right, you win if you're closest to the price wogo.
by WhatwasIsaying July 16, 2023
Get the wogomug. IMS, she preferred a fuss being made of her birthday but not of Valentine's Day.
IMS, when this problem came up in the past, a shorter HDMI cable solved the problem.
IMS, this is the club I was told not to use a credit card in, if I didn't want to be double-charged for alcohol.
IMS, when this problem came up in the past, a shorter HDMI cable solved the problem.
IMS, this is the club I was told not to use a credit card in, if I didn't want to be double-charged for alcohol.
by WhatwasIsaying February 16, 2025
Get the IMSmug. Mail sent to an address by the government to ask for confirmation that the resident still lives there; if the resident does not respond, e.g., because s/he mistakes it for junk mail, the state uses non-response as its excuse to purge the voter from its rolls
The (in)accuracy of non-response to assess residency can be corroborated by comparing purged name-address pairs with recent USPS and Amazon shipments.
The (in)accuracy of non-response to assess residency can be corroborated by comparing purged name-address pairs with recent USPS and Amazon shipments.
I never returned that poisoned postcard, which explains why I had to fill out a provisional ballot. I wonder if it was counted.
by WhatwasIsaying February 15, 2025
Get the poisoned postcardmug. A terrible thing happens when you don’t promote: nothing.
Source: Anonymous copywriter for WDVA radio in Virginia, 1975, appearing in an ad in The Danville Register
Misattributed to P.T. Barnum c. 1999
Source: Anonymous copywriter for WDVA radio in Virginia, 1975, appearing in an ad in The Danville Register
Misattributed to P.T. Barnum c. 1999
Barnum’s Law dictates that having an elevator pitch ready in case the CEO asks you what your function is could be a matter of keeping your job.
by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025
Get the Barnum’s Lawmug.