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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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How do you make a defensible choice when several urgent needs cannot all come first?
What helps the public trust instructions during an emergency?
What helps you return to ordinary life after a difficult shift or incident?
Which emergencies recur because a preventable system failure remains unfixed?
What does the public most misunderstand about the work between emergencies?
What small act makes a guest feel genuinely welcomed rather than processed?
Which detail appears minor to a guest but determines whether the experience works?
How do you recover after the service has clearly gone wrong?
What allows a team to coordinate well during the busiest and least forgiving hour?
Where can a hospitality business save money safely, and where does economising destroy the experience?
When is the customer not right, and how should a good operator respond?
What must be true for an investment thesis to be right, and which assumption is easiest to overlook?
How do you distinguish a risk worth taking from one that merely has an attractive upside?
What makes you say no to an opportunity that could still become very successful?
Which founder or management quality matters greatly but is hardest to evaluate before investing?
When is patience an advantage, and when does it become refusal to admit that the facts changed?
What responsibility follows from deciding where other people's money will go?