Chip Maxwell – Proust Questionnaire

Chip Maxwell, Vice President of Business Development at the Indy tech startup Giggil, joins us this week on the Proust. You can connect with Chip on LinkedIn, or follow him on Twitter.

1. What is your most marked characteristic? My ability to listen and thus converse. Or maybe my right dimple.
2. What is the quality you most like in a man? I like a sense of camaraderie – it shows humility and character.
3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? An easy laugh, and a big smile to go with it.
4. What do you most value in your friends? Their taste in food, because the best things in life happen during, or after, a great meal.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I was going to answer this later, but… procrastination.
6. What is your idea of perfect happiness? In a national park, or another continent, with my family, after a long hike, with a good beer, at sunset.
7. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Homeless and hungry.
8. Who are your favorite writers? Bill Bryson, The Coen Brothers, Jimmy Page, Mark Twain, James Brown
9. What is your current state of mind? Analytical. My work is technical, so I get in modes where strict logic rules.
10. What is your motto? Live life well.
11. What is your greatest fear? I’m not sure – I don’t focus much on fears.
12. What is your greatest extravagance? Time – I spend it, waste it, burn it, and otherwise disregard its finiteness.
13. On what occasion do you lie? Questionnaires.
14. What do you dislike most about your appearance? Don’t look now, but I have a bald patch on my chin.
15. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “Right,” “Okay,” and “It is what it is.”