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Welcome, detail, recovery, team coordination, thin margins, customer limits, and invisible service craft.
12 questions, 177 answers on the record, from 136 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
What are you best at that nobody watching would notice?
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1993–2020; Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit 1980–1993
Recorded · New York Law School Law Review (digitalcommons.nyls.edu) · 1999
I have followed that advice - with, I confess, occasional lapses not only at home, but in the places I have worked, even in relating to my colleagues at the Supreme Court.
Novelist; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2006
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation (nobelprize.org) · 2006
For me, to be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the wounds so secret that we ourselves are barely aware of them, and to patiently explore them, know…
Composer, record producer and visual artist
Recorded · Pitchfork, reproduced in the More Dark Than Shark archive · 2017
I find that you’re a completely different person as a maker than you are as a listener. That’s one of the reasons I so often leave the studio to listen to things.
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
2 answers United States b. 1944
Playwright; two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
2 answers United States 1945–2005
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
3 answers United States b. 1961
Film director and screenwriter
2 answers South Korea b. 1969
Australian sprinter, 1990–2003
2 answers Australia b. 1973
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
2 answers United States b. 1924
British track cyclist, 1994–2013
3 answers United Kingdom b. 1976
Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
3 answers Germany b. 1942
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
2 answers United States
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
2 answers South Africa 1931–2021
Mountaineer and explorer; first ascent of Everest, 1953
2 answers New Zealand 1919–2008
Novelist, short-story writer and translator
2 answers Japan b. 1949
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