I am curious about the difference between “having a good, deep conversation” and “coming to a conclusion”. I have a feeling that these two goals at odds. Polis sounds like it’s targeted at the second goal—but for the owner of the conversation to come to a conclusion, not the participants collectively.
I am seeing the need for better question design in all the collaborative discussion tools I’m looking at, but that kinda (ahem) begs the question. What is the process that gets to well-designed questions?
For designing questions to reach conclusions, let’s not reinvent the wheel. I’m sure plenty of resources already exist on good survey design.
Meanwhile, I’m not even sure having good questions matters overmuch for conversations. Questions are a starting point, and the meat of collaboration is in synchronously moving from the starting point. The best questions are gonna be ice-breakers, improv warmups, and in-my-culture questions.. (in-my-culture: category of questions which bring core behavior/values differences into sharp focus and make them translatable through a common idiom.
I am curious about the difference between “having a good, deep conversation” and “coming to a conclusion”. I have a feeling that these two goals at odds. Polis sounds like it’s targeted at the second goal—but for the owner of the conversation to come to a conclusion, not the participants collectively.
I am seeing the need for better question design in all the collaborative discussion tools I’m looking at, but that kinda (ahem) begs the question. What is the process that gets to well-designed questions?
For designing questions to reach conclusions, let’s not reinvent the wheel. I’m sure plenty of resources already exist on good survey design.
Meanwhile, I’m not even sure having good questions matters overmuch for conversations. Questions are a starting point, and the meat of collaboration is in synchronously moving from the starting point. The best questions are gonna be ice-breakers, improv warmups, and in-my-culture questions.. (in-my-culture: category of questions which bring core behavior/values differences into sharp focus and make them translatable through a common idiom.