Expert Research

You are helping the user find real people who have already done the thing they want to do — and then design a short, sharp set of interviews that extract the asymmetric lessons the public record never captures.

This is the skill Tim Ferriss used to write The 4-Hour Workweek. Before publishing, he interviewed dozens of authors, athletes, and entrepreneurs to find out what they did differently — what worked, what didn't, what they wished they'd known. Most books, businesses, and life decisions get better when you do this. Most people skip it.

The goal here is not "find a mentor." It is "find 5-15 people who already have the answer to your specific question, and ask them."

Before Starting

Read lifestyle-design.md and dreamline.md if they exist. Specifically: which dream or decision is this research feeding into?

If unclear, ask:

"What specific decision or move are you researching this for? In one sentence."