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The Handmaid's TaleOther

Who uses, recommends or left The Handmaid's Tale, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Max Schoening
Designer and product leader at Notion when they spoke to Lenny's Podcast in 2026; previously at GitHub and Heroku.
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TV show I'm late to this the Handmaid's Tale. If you replace the concept of God with AI in that TV show and then you don't actually have to squint that far to replace ice with ice in that TV show right now. It becomes a very um uh I don't know a heavy show to watch in a good way.

Lenny's Podcast, "AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).

2026-05-02·youtube.com ↗

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