Ardal O'Hanlon: What problem are you still trying to solve?

The question

What problem are you still trying to solve?

Originally asked

Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work

Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact closing prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Ardal O'Hanlon

Irish comedian and actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I was always a watcher.

The Guardian, The Guardian, 27 December 2013 source ↗

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell Radio astronomer; discoverer of pulsars

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.

Recorded Louise Walsh, University of Cambridge 'Journeys of Discovery' interview series, 1 January 2020 source ↗

Albie Sachs Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

We haven’t crossed the frontier of unemployment, of poverty, of dispossession, of landlessness, of homelessness, of lack of access to health, to education, all those different things. We just have to keep going steadily, steadily, to plan well, to involve the people and not simply deliver things from the top and hope that people will be grateful, and get upset when they’re not grateful.

Recorded Interview, Cape Town, South Africa, American Academy of Achievement, 3 July 2009 source ↗

adrienne maree brown Writer and facilitator; author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism