Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
Vulnerability. Mutual admiration. Wide open communication. Yeah. Those are my big three.
What do you value most in your friends?
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What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck?
Craft & work
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In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to?
Daily life
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
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What do you need to believe in order to get through the day?
Values & belief
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What scares you about getting older?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
reconcile us to life as it is, and make us more real to ourselves.
Essay, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗
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Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Recorded
His own pledge letter, written on joining the Giving Pledge in 2010, The Giving Pledge, 2010
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Pelé
Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner
Loyalty. Most of my friends have been around me for decades.
Deep and complex thoughts delivered with a wicked sense of humor.
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Don’t read your reviews. […] Don’t write reviews. (Your judgment’s always tainted.) […] Don’t write letters to the editor. (No one cares.)
I’m actually suspicious of people who have a lot of friends.
I guess you’ve just got to take each day at a time
At 3am, worry seems to be my default mode.
It brings the freedom of having seen a lot of things and survived them.
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