consultants are literally hired to ask the dumb-sounding questions and take the blame for unpopular decisions; our only superpower is cultivating perpetual beginners-mind https://x.com/jonnym1ller/status/1640775824637927427
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Reply · Sep 12, 2021@rupenp @krishnanrohit Yep, consultants biggest superpower is that we can afford to shut down the high status blowhard to pursue an interesting line…Reply · Sep 13, 2021@krishnanrohit These responses illustrate how consultants take all the blame, none of the credit... Which is def part of what makes them useful! 😂…Reply · Sep 12, 2021@rupenp @krishnanrohit (and then weave a tenuous link to the blowhard's fave topic and credit him with the great idea so he leaves happy to sell it to…Quote tweet · Dec 6, 2025the best prompters have strong theory of mind, not the best ability to do the tasks themselves https://x.com/IntuitMachine/status/1997131059805163542