“What have you tried?”
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Early on, I picked up the habit of checking with him when some technical thing or other wasn’t working the way I expected:
- “I can’t connect to the thingamabob :(”
- “The whatchamacallit isn’t working :(”
- “How do I fix the doohickey?”
- etc.
Without fail, James’s response would be not an answer but a question, one that has shaped my thinking ever since:
What have you tried?
I just stuck that on post it note and stuck it to my monitor for tomorrow morning.
