Might a Traveler's Biggest Mistake Be Asking the Right Question Too Late?
Useful questions have expiration dates.
Sometimes. A useful question may lose value once key decisions have already been made.
A traveler asks whether airport transportation is reliable only after landing late at night.
The hidden mechanism is timing dependency. Certain questions create value only before commitments become difficult to change.
A micro-scene illustrates this clearly: the answer is accurate, but every practical option has already disappeared.
The quality of a question matters, but its timing often determines whether it can still change the outcome.
