Daan Park, is it?
Then let’s put it this way. If you don’t have screen time, what are you doing?
What kind of things?
Music. You said you liked the “Hamilton” musical?
Anything else recently, anything new?
Background music.
Where do you live currently?
Very nice area. Why don’t you really like movies?
Do you do any sports?
Do you do e‑sports?
What kind of e‑sports?
Do you own any bitcoins anymore?
Oh, really?
Why?
There are different numbers concerning your IQ. What is it really?
Where does that number of 180, 160 come from?
You never did a test or something?
[laughs] That’s your…
Maybe a stupid question, but what is it like to be so intelligent?
You must be bored by a lot of people, right? Including myself, and I’m not saying this ironically.
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.
No, I don’t think so.
Right, but my job is rather to ask questions and not so much to talk.
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.
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]
You answered sometimes right away, before I even had to ask my question, I would say. Is that typical of you, would you say?
Maybe. Maybe it is.
No, just curious. I’m just asking anything that I think might be interesting. Very well.
You still must be bored sometimes. You’ve done this kind of interview hundreds of times by now, right?
Pretty crazy.
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 her and you?
Which in Taiwan at that time must have been quite something, right?
You studied here, and many Taiwanese people, they study abroad as well. Apparently, it seems to be something you do.
Yeah, which is abroad as well, right?
You didn’t feel the urge to go…
You never felt the urge to go to Cambridge or wherever, like many Taiwanese do, apparently?
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.
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?
Right. OK, thank you very much.
I’ll start now?
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.
It’s…
…expert interview.
Just so that it’s clear. You’re not frustrated with why am I talking about this.
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?
That sounds impressive. Do you have it on your laptop, here?
Can I see it?
When is this supposed to happen, this conference? I guess it’s online, right?
I’m a bit surprised, I have to say. Yesterday, of course, was a big day for you as part of the government.
You’re telling me how you write the conference abstract. This is quite interesting and quite telling about the way you work.
