The Techno-Socratic Method
Socratic questioning applied to technology.
No
conclusions... just sharper questions.
"Socrates didn't sell courses... he just showed up and made people uncomfortable."
What are we questioning?
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How Many of Them Were the Same One?
They said it was the de-facto standard, the most used, the one everybody knows. Nobody in the room had written a line of it. So what exactly was being counted?
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Did It Say No, or Did It Decline to Say?
A database has three answers. Your report has two. Somewhere between the row and your eyes, one of them got quietly converted into the other, by five layers that each did the reasonable thing.
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Did You Ask for the Word, or the Work?
An eighteen-year-old behind a bar already thinks in pipelines, batches, and failure modes. He just never learned the words. So what is your interview actually testing for?
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Do You Know That You Don't Know?
A memory corruption, three job titles, everyone doing their job correctly, and still broken. The word senior only ever promised that you had been around a while. Who added the rest?
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Follow, Followed, Follow Up?
The meeting was invented to surface blockers. If it hasn't surfaced one in a year, who is it still protecting?