Deliberate interrogation, after Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen proposes a practice of “deliberate interrogation”: when you find someone who behaves or achieves things which totally break your models, seem unimaginable to you, you can learn much by interrogating them quite precisely:

• what were you thinking about when you did X?
• how did you decide to do Y?
• what made Z appealing?
• why didn’t you Q?
• how did you meet M?
• where did you discover N?

This observation was inspired by Jess Miller Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence