Member · 2026
I want to leave my children three foundational tools to navigate the world: Life skills: The practical capability and independence to take care of themselves, solve everyday problems, and…
Technology
People on the record here who work in technology, and what they were asked.
18 people · 154 answers
What would you most want to leave your children?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
Recorded · Semana · 2022
Queremos crear un ambiente familiar en donde no todo sea fácil, en donde no todo les caiga del cielo, sino que puedan construir su propio camino y tengan ese sentido de desesperación y esa…
Professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Recorded · Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science · 2007
Shortly after my terminal diagnosis, I knew that one of my biggest priorities was to create memories for my children.
Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on?
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Recorded · TIME · 2017
I read Stephen Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature a few years ago and got to talk to him about it after, which was a lot of fun.
Engineer and designer; led the iPod and iPhone teams at Apple, founder of Nest Labs
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2020
I regularly gift the book called In Praise of Shadows .
Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
Obvious I give out my own books fairly often: The Startup View , The Alliance . Recently I’ve been giving out another book of friend of mine, Joshua Cooper Ramos, The Seventh Sense .
Co-founder of Coursera and of Google Brain; founder of DeepLearning.AI
Recorded · DeepLearning.AI · 2020
Over the years, I have found a few resources for developing personal productivity that I love.
American computer scientist and businessman
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2019
It’s a great question. Neil Postman in general is a media thinker about some of the topics we’ve discussed today is just excellent.
What purchase of $100 or less has most improved your life in the last six months?
Founder of Digg; investor and podcaster
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
I hate to plug my other podcast, but on episode two I went out and interviewed this guy that is a master of pens. He knows more about pens than we do about anything else on earth.
Co-founder and chief executive of Duolingo; co-inventor of CAPTCHA
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022
Easy, easy. An electric toothbrush. I got the Oral-B iO. This changes your life. I mean you can’t go back. You can’t go back.
Founder and chief executive of Bumble
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
That’s a great question. Coconut oil. ... Everything. You can take a bath with it. You can put it in a smoothie. You can cook vegetables with it. You can actually put it on your skin.
Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
This is going to sound a little strange, but my trainer started recommending that I add moringa leaf powder to my tea.
Creator of Ruby on Rails; chief technology officer of 37signals
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
I have the question ready right here. I bought a skateboard about two months ago, which has a funny story in itself. ...
Everyone here · A–Z
Ali Abbasi, Bill Gates, Brian Chesky, David Vélez, Drew Houston, James Dyson, Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, Linus Torvalds, Nithin Kamath, Randy Pausch, Reid Hoffman, Steve Jobs, Sundar Pichai, Susan Wojcicki, Tim Cook, Tony Fadell, Whitney Wolfe Herd