What Interview Questions Would Interest You?
Here's a good chance to have your opinion impact the site! The Indie Hackers interviews are great, but I'm looking to mix it up a little more.
If you could add anything to the question set, what would you add? What questions do you wish we asked? What kind of info do you feel like the interviews are missing?
This is highly personal, but I have pet peeves about interviews, generally speaking. I'm not pointing fingers at IH at all, I'm purely speaking from memory and past experience.
Questions that contain:
The most, hardest, easiest, simplest, best, worst... etc. No thanks. It shows, to me at least, a deep lack of preparation before meeting the guest on air.
Asking Peter Thiel about "his best investment" for example is boring as all hell.
I'd be excited to hear about the host using his products themelves, talking to his customers, reaching out to his partners and past employees. Finding out where his thought leadership is currently at and poking at this instead.
Depth, nuance and clarity.
That's what I'm interested in.
To be clear, I'm no journalist, nor even a good story teller at that. I'm simply sharing my own personal thoughts on the matter. :)
This is awesome feedback! Thank you!
Here's a good example I've heard recently on a podcast. I'm paraphrasing but it went something like:
Host
I was reading your latest book on consultative pricing and came across an interesting paragraph, it said "Specialization allows a firm to charge premium prices not thanks to better services but rather thanks to a lack of alternatives for customers." This was fascinating to me. I wonder what happens if a firm is in fact specialized, but still has many competitors... what then?
Guest
I'm glad you asked, that's such a sticking point when I coach. There's a central concept that I try to convey in my [...]
You can imagine how engaged the guest was at this question. It was fantastic.
You are most welcome :)