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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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Whose work makes you envious?
Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them?
Who raised you, and how did their work and example shape the way you lead today?
Asked of someoneIf you could ask a job candidate only one question and had to decide on the spot whether to hire them, what would you ask?
Asked of someoneWhat is your theory of how success actually works in the field you work in — the dynamics underneath the surface?
Asked of someoneWhat belief do you hold that most people around you would reject or find surprising?
Asked of someoneTell us about a time you found a clever workaround in a non-technical system — rules, institutions, or social structures — and made it work for you.
Asked of someoneWhat is something surprising or amusing you have discovered, whether or not it relates to your work?
Asked of someoneWhen you put your name on something, how thoroughly should you have checked it first — and when have you signed off without checking enough?
Asked of someoneWhat is your strongest reason for seeking this office now?
Candidate questionWhich past decision best shows how you respond when your judgment proves wrong?
Candidate questionWhat single federal outcome would be your highest legislative priority during your first two years?
Candidate questionWhat limit should Congress enforce most firmly on a president of your own party?
Candidate questionWhat should federal debt held by the public equal as a percentage of GDP ten years from now?
Candidate questionWhat measurable change in health-care affordability should Congress achieve by the end of 2028?
Candidate questionWhat should be Congress’s primary goal for U.S. energy policy through 2030?
Candidate questionWhich AI-related risk most requires federal action before the end of 2028?
Candidate questionUnder what conditions would you vote to authorize sustained U.S. military hostilities abroad?
Candidate questionWhat evidence would you require before rejecting a state-certified federal election result?
Candidate questionWhat single federal action would most improve daily life in your district by the end of 2028?
Candidate questionWhat single federal action would most improve daily life in your state by the end of 2028?
Candidate questionWhat working assumption from your first decade did you eventually have to unlearn — and what belief replaced it?
What single measurable result should voters use to judge your first two years in office?
Candidate questionIf you replayed the last ten years with the same decisions but less anger, what would still have been worth the fight?