Very interesting. I’m telling myself I don’t have to take notes because you’re going to publish everything anyway.
And many more languages? Which language was it, even?
There are 14 officially recognized indigenous tribes in Taiwan?
Also the indigenous one?
All the songs?
You were singing along with her?
…so I get an idea of how you spend your time and what are your priorities.
Maybe you can tell me your whole day yesterday…
You’re telling me how you write the conference abstract. This is quite interesting and quite telling about the way you work.
I’m a bit surprised, I have to say. Yesterday, of course, was a big day for you as part of the government.
When is this supposed to happen, this conference? I guess it’s online, right?
Can I see it?
That sounds impressive. Do you have it on your laptop, here?
For example, something like you just mentioned your daily rhythm, your routine. It’s also very interesting to understand who you are and how you are working. What did you do yesterday working until one o’clock?
Just so that it’s clear. You’re not frustrated with why am I talking about this.
…expert interview.
It’s…
Great. This is going to be an, I hope, an in depth interview in order to write a portrait. There are going to be some also anecdotal and maybe even personal questions.
I’ll start now?
Right. OK, thank you very much.
They didn’t fit into the system, the way you didn’t, apparently. Would you say that’s true, and would you say this kind of educational system is actually a big opportunity for people like you to stand out even more?
Maybe very last question. I’ve used enough of your time. One of my Chinese teachers told me that actually many Taiwanese who are creative, like the founder of Foxconn, for example, they weren’t very good in school, apparently.
You never felt the urge to go to Cambridge or wherever, like many Taiwanese do, apparently?
You didn’t feel the urge to go…
Yeah, which is abroad as well, right?
You studied here, and many Taiwanese people, they study abroad as well. Apparently, it seems to be something you do.
Which in Taiwan at that time must have been quite something, right?
Right, yeah. Just thinking about you and reading even more about you, and how you left school when you were quite young already and stuff like that, Greta Thunberg came to my mind. I guess you admire her. You mentioned her a few times. Do you see any parallels between ...
Pretty crazy.
You still must be bored sometimes. You’ve done this kind of interview hundreds of times by now, right?
No, just curious. I’m just asking anything that I think might be interesting. Very well.
Maybe. Maybe it is.
You answered sometimes right away, before I even had to ask my question, I would say. Is that typical of you, would you say?
Anyways, you sometimes seemed a bit impatient. Maybe that’s not due to your intelligence or anything. Maybe you understood quicker what I wanted to say than I did myself. [laughs]
I just felt, and no offense. I have no problem with that at all. No personal feelings or anything. Again, last week in our interview, I was a bit slow sometimes. I hadn’t slept well. I was a bit tired. Anyways.
Right, but my job is rather to ask questions and not so much to talk.
No, I don’t think so.
You talk very quickly, for example. You get your ideas through very quickly. You talk very precisely, for example. Most other people don’t, so that’s a difference already.
You must be bored by a lot of people, right? Including myself, and I’m not saying this ironically.
Maybe a stupid question, but what is it like to be so intelligent?
[laughs] That’s your…
You never did a test or something?
Where does that number of 180, 160 come from?
There are different numbers concerning your IQ. What is it really?
Why?
Oh, really?
Do you own any bitcoins anymore?
What kind of e‑sports?
Do you do e‑sports?
Do you do any sports?
