X: What's your dream job title?
Me: Sympathetic Sceptic.
X: ?
Me: I want to help people to get to the best thing they can, given their constraints, for their definition of best, at this time.
X: ...
Me: I want to help them by probing the idea of the thing, and the motivation for it, and the way it is made, and any other relevant and important factors to them right now.
X: ...
Me: And I want to offer to propose potential factors too, for as long as they feel it's helpful.
X: ...
Me: And I want to suggest alternative perspectives, with varying degrees of viability, to compare their thing to, until they are happy enough with a version of their thing for their current purpose and costs.
X: ...
Me: And I want to do that with humility, remembering that it's their thing not mine, and they can do whatever they want with whatever I have to say.
X: ...
Me: Not that I've given it a lot of thought, you understand.
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