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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Who Got There First?
The tracker fired at 18:58:36. The thing that decides whether tracking is allowed finished loading at 18:58:37. Everything on that page was correctly configured.
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Whose Battle Was It?
The stack got chosen in four syllables and nobody asked a follow-up question. Battle-tested. Which battle, fought by whom, against what, in what year?
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Are They Trusting You, or Spending You?
A senior developer, two and a half years on the project, is asked to remove the white background from nine placeholder images. He found three explanations for it. Every one of them was about him.
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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.