Daily life
Six questions about how your days start, what you refuse, and the small habits you keep.
6 questions, 121 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
What is an unusual habit or small pleasure you are oddly fond of?
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
Recorded · Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine · 1976
one of my diseases, one of my things in life, is that anything that is secret I try to undo. And so the locks to those filing cabinets represented a challenge to me.
Essayist and novelist
Recorded · The Guardian · 2010
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter.
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
Recorded · Wired · 1996
We spent some time in our family talking about what's the trade-off we want to make. We ended up talking a lot about design, but also about the values of our family.
General
Twelve questions in FLAPSS wording — taste, daily life, craft, failure, and who formed you. The place to start if you have no idea where to start.
Identity & self
For a birthday, a quiet Sunday, or the week you realise you have been answering other people's priorities. Not a goal worksheet — the questions people answer differently at fifty than at twenty-five.
Reading & recommendations
Five questions about books you pass on, books that changed you, gaps on your list, and long-form work that stayed with you.