The question
What is your favourite side project?Originally asked
Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work
Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I love curating things in general. I love writing. It might actually be the solution to my problem, my dilemma that I don't know what to do. It's because I like to do everything. I like to appease that nature of wanting to dabble in things.
Laura Brown, harper by Harper's BAZAAR, Harper's Bazaar, 9 February 2015 source ↗
Email. Or call a good friend. Reading this reminds me that I should instead read poetry. Or write.
Thanks for asking, this is a bit of a cool side project for me. The main thing that motivated me to start it was just a general feeling that I had more than I needed and that I should give back. I donate money through a charitable foundation (rather than just through personal checks) in the hope that it will inspire others to consider supporting causes that they believe in.
I had nothing to do, so I start to figure out the motion of the rotating plate. I discover that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble rate—two to one. It came out of a complicated equation! Then I thought, “Is there some way I can see in a more fundamental way, by looking at the forces or the dynamics, why it’s two to one?”
I actually did write a novel. I worked on it for five years, and then I shelved it because it was bad.
I won't allow people's shit limit what I do.
A walk-in wardrobe!
I was filming T4 at T in the Park one year, and one person kept shouting, "Popworld cunt" at me. That sucked.
Realising adults don't know everything.
Playing ping pong in LA.
To be blonde. It was just my ambition in life. Just to be blonde.
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