Chair and chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices
Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like.
Recorded · MIT News · 2026
Professional practice
Scientists & researchers
A public account of uncertainty, evidence, negative results, collaboration, explanation, and ethical limits.
12 questions, 224 answers on the record, from 182 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
What does everyone in your world seem to agree on that you think is wrong?
Co-founder and chief executive of Zerodha
Sleep has to be, by far, the most underrated aspect of good health. I think sleeping less & working more is glorified.
Recorded · Nithin Kamath's blog · 2022
Condensed matter physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 2010
Instant information about everything and everyone often allows an individual opinion to compete with consensus and paranoia with evidence.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2010
Every question in this questionnaire
- Which unanswered question would most change your field if somebody resolved it? —
- Which problem are you still chipping away at? 12
- What evidence would make you abandon an idea you currently believe? —
- When did you last change your mind about something important? 28
- What did a failed experiment or negative result teach you that a successful result could not? —
- How has a setback or failure set you up for later success? 69
- What contribution from a collaborator changed the direction of your work? —
- What are you best at that nobody watching would notice? 26
- What makes you want to keep learning? 9
- What does the public most often misunderstand about what your field can know with confidence? —
- What does everyone in your world seem to agree on that you think is wrong? 80
- Which work could your field pursue but should choose not to? —
Who has answered
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
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Barack Obama44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
2 answers United States b. 1961
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Bill Clinton42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
3 answers United States b. 1946
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Charlie MungerVice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
2 answers United States b. 1924
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Christiane Nüsslein-VolhardDevelopmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
4 answers Germany b. 1942
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Daniel KahnemanPsychologist; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2002
2 answers Israel / United States 1934–2024
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David VélezCo-founder and chief executive of Nubank
4 answers Colombia
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Desmond TutuAnglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
4 answers South Africa 1931–2021
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Edmund HillaryMountaineer and explorer; first ascent of Everest, 1953
3 answers New Zealand 1919–2008
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Elinor OstromPolitical economist; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2009
2 answers United States 1933–2012
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George LucasFilmmaker; creator of Star Wars and founder of Lucasfilm
2 answers United States b. 1944
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Jensen HuangCo-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
2 answers United States b. 1963
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Jocelyn Bell BurnellRadio astronomer; discoverer of pulsars
4 answers United Kingdom b. 1943
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