Basketball coach; head coach of Stanford women's basketball 1985–2024
Recorded · Stanford Graduate School of Business · 2026
I think feedback is coaching. Sometimes it’s hard for people to hear feedback.
Values & belief
Eight questions about virtues, consensus, what being human means, who you admire, and when you changed your mind.
8 questions, 782 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
What belief do you hold that most people around you would reject or find surprising?
Basketball coach; head coach of Stanford women's basketball 1985–2024
Recorded · Stanford Graduate School of Business · 2026
I think feedback is coaching. Sometimes it’s hard for people to hear feedback.
Founder of Teach For America; chief executive of Teach For All
Recorded · Kathmandu Post · 2019
We focus on people and on cultivating local leadership: Wendy Kopp
Jazz tenor saxophonist and composer
Recorded · MusicRadar · 2026
I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I'm a person who believes this life isn't the be-all and end-all of everything.
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.