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How I Work

Lifehacker, put to people about their working day

3 questions, 18 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else.

What side project are you most glad you pursued?

Derek Sivers

Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want

Recorded · Derek Sivers · 2009

The proudest achievement of my life at that time was that software.
Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964

Recorded · Winston S. Churchill, Painting as a Pastime, Project Gutenberg Canada · 1932

Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind.
Rosa Parks

Civil-rights activist

Recorded · Academy of Achievement

We work with young people, from the ages of 11 to 17. Our main program is the Pathways to Freedom.
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Every question in this set

  1. What side project are you most glad you pursued? 4
  2. Which problem are you still chipping away at? 12
  3. Who makes your work possible behind the scenes? 2

The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.