British wheelchair racer, 1988–2007; member of the House of Lords
Recorded · People's Collection Wales · 2015
I love training. It's not just about the competing.
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Journalists & editors
Questioning, verification, correction, sources, attention, power, and what journalism systematically misses.
12 questions, 142 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
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What are you best at that nobody watching would notice?
Novelist; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2006
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation (nobelprize.org) · 2006
For me, to be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the wounds so secret that we ourselves are barely aware of them, and to patiently explore them, know…
Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
Recorded · YouTube (recording of the Caltech commencement address) · 2024
Of all of the things that I value most about my abilities, intelligence is not top of that list.
Every question in this questionnaire
- What kind of question most often opens a truthful answer rather than a rehearsed one? —
- How do you decide that a claim is sufficiently verified to publish? —
- When you put your name on something, how thoroughly should you have checked it first — and when have you signed off without checking enough? —
- What should a journalist do when a published account is materially wrong? —
- How do you protect a source without letting anonymity protect a weak claim? —
- Whose work do you read even when you disagree with them? 26
- When did you last change your mind about something important? 28
- What are you best at that nobody watching would notice? 26
- Which important reality does the news cycle systematically make harder to see? —
- What bad recommendations do people in your field repeat too often? 32
- What are you unwilling to optimise? 30
- How should the way you question a powerful person differ from the way you question somebody with little power? —
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