I was always a watcher.
The Guardian, The Guardian, 27 December 2013 source ↗
The question
Who helps you get things done?Originally asked
Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work
Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact support-network prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.
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J.K. Rowling
Novelist and screenwriter
I couldn’t have asked for better collaborators on the stage play than John Tiffany (director) and Jack Thorne (writer).
Jia Tolentino
Writer
I had help in the form of my friend and former editor Carrie Frye
Ahmed Zewail
Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999
I have had students and postdocs of the first class close to four hundred people.
Recorded
Heidi Aspaturian, Caltech Oral History Project, Caltech Archives Oral History Project, 2015
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Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
I have no team business-wise. I should mention that I have no assistant or team at all.
Recorded
Kelly Irving, community interview transcript, Expert Author Community, 29 August 2025
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