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Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry

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.”
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.
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Cian Kelly

Cian Kelly,dosent like hot sauce and is very bent
Nah that lads acc so Cian Kelly
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Kellies

An extremely beautiful girl that is totally lovable, even though it doesn’t appear due to her extremely bubbly and contagious happy vibe she has been through a lot and is truly something to cherish. She’s the kinda girl that you meet online and despite having complications of communication, trust and overall withdrawal you would intimately stay with for 2 years and many more to come. Love her till you die because she is a beautiful cute smart charming and all around amazing person don't mess up because once you loose her trust is most likely gone and cherish her forever.
Kellies is so cool. I wish I were her.
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kelly

i wanna kelly;)
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Kelly

Super nice guy. Will do absolutely anything for you if the connection is real. He will call you things like "ethereal" and "majestic" if he sees that those terms fit. Male Kellys make the best friends. They are caring and sweet. Just good all around.
"Wow! Kelly is here!"
"Of course he is, he always shows up for his friends"
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Amber-Kelly

An “Amber-Kelly” is a woman that has multiple baby daddies, a drug addiction, a former career as a prostitute and likes to have intercourse with older men while going home to a cuckold that is around the same age or younger than her. Amber-Kelly has always been an independent thinking woman but has always been dependent on someone to take care of their kids. They are usually mediocre looking but have a smokin hot bid and a permanently wet snatch. Amber-Kelly’s favorite location is the methadone clinic or the Harnett County Courthouse.
1-“I heard you found a pretty, sweet girlfriend.”

2- “I did too until I found out she’s and Amber-Kelly and has a heroin addiction, 2 baby daddies, 3 abortions and a cuckold at home”
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