Too busy to read?

If someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, 'Could you save that question until I'm finished - and well on my way home?'

'What's new?' is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question 'What is best?', a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream.

When asking for information, first express our own feelings and needs.