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Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry

If you ask the top people for their opinions first, you won’t get effective advice from the people below them.

A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.

When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.

Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”

At Los Alamos, visitors Niels Bohr and brother Harald obeyed Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry by running their ideas on the current work by Richard Feynman before asking anyone higher up.

by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025


rule of 90

The rule of 90 is referring to the appropriate number of certain things you'd need if a civil or worldly crisis were to occur and you'd be put into a survival situation.

For instance if a zombie apocalypse were to occur through the rule of 90 you'd need food to last atleast 90 days, a fire arm with atleast 90 rounds of ammunition, water to last 90 days and a map which shows atleast 90 miles squared of the surrounding area.

Again if you survived a plain crash through the rule of 90 you'd need to find supplies to last 90 days, you'd wait by the crash sight for 90 days to be rescued, when setting up a shelter you'd set it no more than 90,000 metres away from the crash sight.

And so on

by 5mi1e5 August 05, 2014


EA Catch-up Rule

When you are playing a video game and dominating the other team then suddenly the other team starts making a comeback very easily.

Originates from EA Sports where this phenomenon was first noticed.

I was winning 5-0 on Rocket League until the EA Catch-up Rule kicked in and the other team came back to tie in the final minutes.

by JYoTX January 16, 2017


Dyer’s Rule of Nutrition

Jay Dyer’s Rule of Nutrition states that you should never eat anything that has cartoon characters on its package. Basically, processed junk food.

Dyer’s Rule of Nutrition would rule out:
>Cocoa Pebbles
>M&Ms
>Cheetos
>Flintstones Gummies
>Count Chocula
>Lunchly

by WeAlsoDoSomeTrolling June 28, 2025


Rule 64

Yes, there’s a Skyrim Mod for that.

"Oh my god, I really want a Paarthunax with a bikini in Skyrim!"
Rule 64 is now active
"There's a mod for that, unfortunately I won't say what mod it is"

by Fahrenwx November 19, 2021


freshman rule

The freshman rule. The bet that kills all relationships. How the bet works is, some lads will have a competition to see how many new students they can sleep with.

Shall we have a bet? How about the freshman rule?

by LadThings March 14, 2017


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by SuelTameOresuTeMato May 02, 2025