Episode 43: I Return Null
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2011
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Topic: Asking questions in order to find better questions
This week, Dan and Merlin pick up their discussion of asking better questions and how sometimes the point of asking a question isn't to get an answer, but to get another, even better question.
How do you do this? Blundell Chains, hypotheses, the clackity noise, and iteration.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, uh, there's so many reasons not to piss off the sound guy, you know, the guy |
| 0:07.7 | runs the board. |
| 0:08.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:09.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.7 | An excellent reason to never piss off the sound guy is he's probably the guy who gets |
| 0:14.2 | to pick the music, the plays right or you come up. |
| 0:17.7 | I was it. |
| 0:18.7 | I don't know if this was the case, but uh, everybody knows this, that, you know, you don't want |
| 0:23.2 | to have music with one of the show that's better than your band. |
| 0:25.9 | Oh. |
| 0:26.9 | I was at a show. |
| 0:28.9 | I think it was at bottom of the hill here in San Francisco. |
| 0:31.0 | And I don't know how you're pretty and super familiar with this band, but we were going |
| 0:33.8 | to see somebody or waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting and suddenly slamming out of the speakers |
| 0:38.4 | here. |
| 0:39.4 | Pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, new day rising. |
| 0:44.2 | And it's new day rising by who's could do, which is one of the most paint peeling, awesome, |
| 0:49.0 | beloved punk rock records of all time. |
| 0:51.1 | And it starts out with just thunderous three minutes of drumming and just screaming new |
| 0:54.5 | day rising. |
| 0:55.5 | And as soon as everybody in the room hears it, like, it's just, it's just boners and blood |
| 0:59.0 | loss all through the room. |
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