I'm making cheap electricity,
Originally asked
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.
David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 2 October 1997 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 25 →We work with young people, from the ages of 11 to 17. Our main program is the Pathways to Freedom. And we’ll be going from Memphis, Tennessee through ten other states, and Washington, DC, and to Canada. It began July 13th and ends August 8th. We hope to take as many young people and their chaperons as possible throughout these areas, and stop and have workshops and programs. They’ll be traveling in buses, and we hope that will inspire and give them a sense of history and also to encourage them to be concerned about their self and history and motivated to reach their highest potential.
Apart from my business I engage in civic issues. I do a lot of work with the Government of Karnataka, both for the biotech sector as well as for the city of Bangalore.
I used to love writing poems. Before I was with Coleen, just normal poems
More from Kurt Vonnegut
View profile →I don’t much want to play anymore. I enjoyed the game as a young man, but I don’t enjoy it now.
In our lives, we do our best to serve our community well, behave decently, and treat people well.
“Candide” by Voltaire, I guess.
Bad things happening to my children and grandchildren.
What makes life worth living are the saints I meet-they can be long-time friends or someone I meet on a street. They find a way to behave decently in an indecent society.
I don’t fucking know. I keep thinking I’ll die. Why do you think I smoke so much?
More on craft & work
- What is the worst job you have done? 239 answers
- What do you consider your greatest achievement? 204 answers
- How does a new work begin for you? 83 answers
- What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck? 80 answers
- How do you know when a piece of work is finished? 76 answers
- How much rewriting or revision do you do? 58 answers
Also answered this
Richard Ford, David Hare, Jia Tolentino, Alan Cumming, Adam Zagajewski, Adam Gopnik
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All craft & work questions
- The How I Work questionnaire — 3 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject