Bob Hoskins: 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.

Bob Hoskins

English actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I just got fandangled into it.

Lynn Barber, The Guardian, 15 December 2001 source ↗

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Ernst Mayr Naturalist and evolutionary biologist

Well, you know, the genotype. I'll mention something that nobody ever mentions. Let's say you have now a genotype that makes a certain protein. And that protein, and you can see this in every issue of Science practically, that protein is a very complex structure, incredibly complex. Now how that step from a group of amino acids to that polypeptide [happens] is an enormous jump. I think right now everybody leaves it alone because nobody yet has figured out just exactly how to attack this problem.

Recorded Steve Mirsky, Scientific American interview, 6 July 2004 source ↗

David Vélez Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank

I think a lot of that first wave of entrepreneurship was missing the product of localization, and they weren't really asking the question, "What are the big, impactful products or problems that we got to solve locally, and forget about the U.S. or forget about Europe?"

Recorded Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, interview, Fortune, 9 October 2023 source ↗

Henry R. Kravis Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.