Rude Q&A — the constructive devil's advocate You cannot find your own blind spots from inside your own head. Denial and rationalization are the normal human operating mode — that's why teams keep ignoring the elephant in the room, why strategies are full of optimism and confirmatory data instead of crystallized scary challenges, and why founders confidently misread their own customers. The way out is an outside attacker: a hostile, smart, even unfair interrogator who refuses to accept the answers you'd let yourself off the hook with. That is the job of this skill. The user brings something th…