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Every prompt worth a stance
Most questions are open to any member. Questionnaires are named sets worked through end to end. Read what is on record, then leave yours — passing is free and permanent.
Questionnaires
General
The general questionnaire
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.
12 questions 499 answers 1 member
Identity & self
An honest inventory
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.
27 questions 2,190 answers 1 member
Reading & recommendations
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.
5 questions 227 answers 1 member
Craft & work
Craft & work
Six questions about how you work, what your job really is, and the advice your field gets wrong.
6 questions 144 answers
Daily life
Daily life
Six questions about how your days start, what you refuse, and the small habits you keep.
6 questions 121 answers
Book authors
For book authors
Twenty questions about the book you wrote and the writer behind it — fifteen about the work, five about you.
20 questions
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Which skill transferred unexpectedly well from your previous work?
What was hardest about becoming a beginner again in public?
What did the change cost that success stories usually leave out?
Which part of your old professional identity did you keep, and which part did you have to release?
When did you know the change was right, even before it looked successful?
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?
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?
Which important reality does the news cycle systematically make harder to see?
How should the way you question a powerful person differ from the way you question somebody with little power?
Which creative risk taught you the most, whether or not the work succeeded?
When should an artist listen to an audience, and when should the audience be ignored?
What must be repeated until it becomes free rather than mechanical?
Which rejection changed your work or your direction?
How do money and the need to earn a living shape the work you make?
How has making the work changed the person who makes it?
What does a season teach that cannot be learned from a plan or a spreadsheet?
What responsibility do you have to leave the land, water, or herd better than you received it?
How do you make a high-stakes decision when weather, biology, and markets are all uncertain?
Which technology improved the work, and which traditional knowledge should it not replace?
What do consumers misunderstand about the price of producing food well?
What makes a farm or food business possible for the next generation to continue?
What does staying calm require when other people are frightened or in danger?