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What is your favourite side project?

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Alex Honnold Rock climber; first person to free solo El Capitan
Thanks for asking, this is a bit of a cool side project for me. The main thing that motivated me to start it was just a general feeling that I had more than I needed and that I should give back. I donate money through a charitable foundation (rather than just through personal checks) in the hope that it will inspire others to consider supporting causes that they believe in.
Recorded Planetmountain.com, 2014 source ↗
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
The proudest achievement of my life at that time was that software. Wonderfully organized, extensible, and efficient: the culmination of everything I’d learned about programming in ten years. After a successful relaunch and Christmas rush, I was looking at my plan for 2008 and beyond. All my plans needed a huge effort for little reward, but were required for future growth. I had broken it into about 20 projects, each taking 2 to 12 weeks. But I wasn’t excited about any of them.
Recorded Essay on sive.rs, Derek Sivers, 13 October 2009 source ↗
Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
I became interested in the United Way, because, in our contract with the television networks, we had a certain amount of promo time for ourselves. It was so much money, about $40 million a year. We had a couple of extra minutes on each tape, on each network. We used them for a while on relatively self-serving things, and I thought, rather than have that time be spent on saying “the NFL is great,” we should try to use it for some good. That’s when we bound our relationship with the United Way.
Recorded Rancho Santa Fe, California, Academy of Achievement, 15 May 1991 source ↗
Ada Yonath Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009
I like reading, I like swimming.I go snorkeling if I can. But not because I’m stuck, but because I enjoy them. And when I am swimming or whatever, I find I have more time to think.
Recorded LW, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings source ↗

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