The Meta Question and the Hierarchy of Questions

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When building a project or product, there is always some big question that you need to know the answer to. The first question you have to ask is what is the biggest question I don't know the answers to. Then step two is now that you have that question, you need to go try to answer it. That's where the tool belt comes in. It's like, oh, I've got this tool belt of tools to help me answer the big questions.

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What are "shed" and "cake" projects? And how can you avoid "shed" projects? What is the "jobs to be done" framework? What is the "theory of change" framework? How can people use statistics (or statistical intuition) in everyday life? How accurate are climate change models? How much certainty do scientists have about climate change outcomes? What are some promising strategies for mitigating and reversing climate change?

Cassandra Xia (@CassandraXia) is the creator of Adventures in Cognitive Biases and co-founder of the non-profit Work on Climate. She is fascinated by how human biases affect the actions we take as a society and how to hack human psychology to get the change that we want. She is previously affiliated with the MIT Media Lab, MIT CS department, and Google AI. More of Cassandra's work can be found at cassandraxia.com and workonclimate.org.

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