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Complexity is easy. Simplicity is difficult.

Quick answers to ten simple questions

The ten question writing prompt

Robert Gowty
3 min readNov 28, 2022

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Maddie says “I can’t believe you choose Rex over me. I hate you, Robert Gowty.” By the author.

OK, where are we up to? Anthony Overs followed on from Alex Markham who picked up the trail for Pierce McIntyre, who was inspired by Linda Ng after Paul Combs got the whole thing started.

Please sing the above paragraph to the tune of the Money-go-Round by the Kinks.

I guess you’re wanting some answers now…

1. Favourite drink?

We touch on coffee later so to survey my refrigerator the clear answer would be soda water, or club soda. Either by itself, or mixed with whisky for the winter or campari for the summer.

2. Favourite colour?

Black cat, black dog, black guinea pigs, hell, I’ve even got a black rooster in my backyard at the moment. Anyone want a rooster? Black jacket, black vinyl. Let’s have a look in the craft drawer. Lots of tubes of black paint. Black, black, black. Such a versatile colour.

3. If you won the lottery, what are the top 3 things you would do first?

Quit the day job. A no brainer, really.
Sustainable energy storage. I started my…

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Robert Gowty
Robert Gowty

Written by Robert Gowty

Extemporal Explorer. Music, art, fiction, science fiction, culture and technology. Tasmanian Existentialism. Aficionado of the number seven.

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