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Wed, 21 Aug 2024

I DON'T KNOW

If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the following game when you attend a conference or a user group meetup or even a work meeting. The game is:

If someone asks you a question, and you say “I don't know”, you score a point.

That's it. That's the game. “I don't know” doesn't have to be perfectly truthful, only approximately truthful.

I forgot, there is one other rule:

If you follow up with something like “But if I had to guess…” you lose your point again.


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