Apr 9, 2025
How to get better answers from your peers.
Instead of asking your peers to weigh in on different options and the best solution, just give them a solution. Stake a claim. Make it visible. Then let them shoot holes in it.
Framing it as “Here's my current thinking, based on the information I have today” does two things. It keeps you from sounding arrogant. And it opens the door for others to improve it. Feedback gets sharper. Responses come faster. The conversation shifts from “What should we do?” to “What's wrong with this?”
That's how you get to better answers...faster.
P.S. Not for every situation - just the ones where speed matters and your peers already trust you.
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