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What problem are you still trying to solve?

30 answers answered between 1991 and 2026 one of 3 in How I Work

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Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work

Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact closing prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 9 Arts and letters 6 Politics and public life 7 Business and finance 4 Technology 1 Sport 3
Read by age Any age In their forties 1 In their fifties 2 In their sixties 3 Seventy and beyond 1
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Richard Ford Novelist and short-story writer
I sometimes I have the inability to see how I can do what I need to do at a high enough level for me to do it.
Recorded Robert Birnbaum, Interview, Identity Theory, 16 February 2002 source ↗
Tom Lubbock Art critic
The mystery of summoning up words. Where are they in the mind, in the brain? They appear to be an agency from nowhere. They exist somewhere in our ground or in our air. They come from unknown darkness. From a place we normally don't think about.
Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010, 7 November 2010 source ↗
David Hare Playwright and screenwriter
I would like to write a play which doesn’t disappoint me 20 years later.
Recorded Rob McGibbon, The Definite Article, Rob McGibbon, 27 August 2011 source ↗
Ursula K. Le Guin Novelist, poet and essayist
For a serious writer seriously concerned about any moral, social, political, environmental issues, it is a major concern. I’ve been wrestling with it ever since I was 18.
Recorded iurgi, Book View Café, 5 October 2015 source ↗
adrienne maree brown Writer and facilitator; author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism
how do I, in my lifetime, do my part to help return the species to itself?
Recorded Justin Scott Campbell, Longreads, 24 April 2018 source ↗

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