This morning I decided I am not going to take a job that I’ve been offered.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
The question
When did you last change your mind about something important?Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
This morning I decided I am not going to take a job that I’ve been offered.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
In the first few months of Nubank, I asked everybody to be here by 8:00 a.m. every day. I saw it as a test of people's commitment, and I was pretty rigid about it.
Oh, most days. I can watch a political programme and think, “That sounds a really good point.” Then someone will argue the opposite and I’ll think, “Yeah, he’s got a point as well.” I am constantly sitting on a fence.
I almost pulled out of my first solo tour because of impostor syndrome.
I used to think that technology could help education. I've probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I've had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent. It's a political problem.
Realising what adulthood is after waiting so long to get here.
Very silly boy.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
An office in the garden.
Making my mum proud.
Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
Gregory Porter, Rory Stewart, Clare Bailey Mosley, Sarah Perry, Johannes Radebe, Tamsin Greig
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