Nick O’Connor

Saying what you actually want

Coming soon.

Ask someone what they want from a piece of work and you usually get a description of the work, not the outcome. Ask again and you get a longer description. The thing they actually wanted turns up three rounds later, and often they had not put it into words before.

This is about why that happens, why it matters more now than it did, and what it looks like to get good at it.

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