Lifehacker, put to people about their working day
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Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work
Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
3 questions, 18 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else. 18 of the answers are quoted from interviews in Academy of Achievement, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and elsewhere, each shown with its source. The people quoted did not answer on FLAPSS; members answer the same questions as themselves, and their answers are kept apart from the quotations.
Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2008
we can select one gene out of those 20,000 genes, and completely destroy that one particular gene so that we can understand the function of that particular gene.
Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2003
we know the fish, we know the worm, we know the fly, but we don’t know the links between and we don’t know, when we go back to the branches in evolution, we really don’t know what happened…
Radio astronomer; discoverer of pulsars
Recorded · University of Cambridge · 2020
They have a lot of extreme physics going on inside them and scientists use them to test theories of relativity on a cosmic scale. Einstein’s theories are checking out pretty well so far.
The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.