Vox, put to writers and thinkers
Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
Vox used this exact prompt throughout its named 9 Questions series on intellectual habits.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
5 questions, 93 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. 93 of the answers are quoted from interviews in Vox, The Guardian 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.
Comedian and writer; co-creator of 2 Broke Girls
Recorded · Vox · 2017
Overthinking. I tend to conflate the amount of time spent on something with how good it is. Sometimes intuition is better than proof, and gut instinct better than hours of “work.”
Entrepreneur and investor; owner of the Dallas Mavericks
Recorded · Vox · 2017
I’ll get half way through a book and then jump to another.
Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009
Recorded · Academy of Achievement
Often, what happens in science is you got a problem and you solve it, and then there’s not much else to do and you have to move on. But the ribosome turned out to be a rather rich gold mine.
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.