adrienne maree brown: What problem are you still trying to solve?

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.

Recorded adrienne maree brown said elsewhere, not written here

how do I, in my lifetime, do my part to help return the species to itself?

Justin Scott Campbell, Longreads, 24 April 2018 source ↗

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Founder and executive chairperson of Biocon

I really want to bring an innovative drug to the global market.

Recorded Rediff.com, 10 August 2011 source ↗

Tom Lubbock Art critic

The mystery of summoning up words. Where are they in the mind, in the brain? They appear to be an agency from nowhere. They exist somewhere in our ground or in our air. They come from unknown darkness. From a place we normally don't think about.

Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010, 7 November 2010 source ↗

Akio Toyoda President of Toyota Motor Corporation, 2009–2023; chairman from 2023

I constantly fear that Toyota will go back to being an ordinary company. When that fear spreads to many people, it will be too late. Even with the title of president, it took me 14 years to change Toyota, but things could revert in a flash.

Recorded overseas dealer representatives and guests, Akio Toyoda’s Juku, Toyota Times, 14 November 2023 source ↗

Sonia Sotomayor Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2009–present

And in many, many parts of the world, if you’re going to deprive a parent of custody of their child, you better give them a lawyer. And we don’t. We have an unequal representation of people in our court system. And that does, I think, provide an injustice that we don’t pay enough attention to.

Recorded Robert Yablon, University of Wisconsin, PBS Wisconsin, 7 September 2016 source ↗