Programmer and educator. Keeps a public bookshelf with a short comment on every book.
loved
No way around it — Dune is probably the best science fiction I’ve ever read.
Marked “Great book!” on his public bookshelf.
2026-08-16·rakhim.org ↗
DuneBook
by Frank Herbert, 2006
Who uses, recommends or left Dune, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
5 people
Chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X; founder of xAI and The Boring Company.
loved
I love Dune, but Frank Herbert – a genius writer – was obviously tripping balls writing that book.
Replying on X to a question about House Atreides in the Dune novels.
2024-03-06·x.com ↗
Founder and CEO of Khan Academy.
loved
Books: Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher in the Rye, Dune, Ender's Game (the entire series), Foundation Series, Lord of the Rings, Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke), Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courth (Twain), Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice.
Answering "Your favorite book? Movie?" in his 2011 Reddit AMA as founder of Khan Academy
2011-12-28·reddit.com ↗
Entrepreneur and essayist; worked at Palantir on health and biology projects, and was a Visiting Scholar in AI at the Mercatus Center.
loved
On his Favourite Books page, "an arbitrary subset of some of the best books I've read", listed as "Dune (1965)".
Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.
recommended
The book is worth reading for its own sake, and it's particularly worth reading (in my opinion) to get a sense of how it has impacted so much of sci-fi and pop culture.
His standing 'books' page listing the books he has written about and spoken about, with a paragraph on each.
2021-03-06·visakanv.com ↗