How I Answer Questions I Don't Know (A Scientist's Framework)

Chat with Greg Fridman · Jul 23, 2026 · 7m

I got a question I don't know how to answer, applied my standard framework, and then decided the framework itself was worth a video. Here is how I handle questions outside my field: what I say, who I say it to, and how I actually research an answer without letting Claude hallucinate at me.

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00:00 A question I can't answer, and my usual technique

00:18 Why I'm sharing the framework itself

00:30 Quick intro, Greg Friedman, PhD bioengineer, startup co-founder

00:40 The question: glass substrates and laser-induced deep etching for chips

01:28 Reminder that plasma is a wide field, and…