We just watched um Inception with the kids and they loved it and uh made me um appreciate Christopher Nolan. So, uh I and what a cool movie, cool. I love it's the type of movie when you watch your film and you can have conversations for two days afterwards about it. So, um just a great film.
Lenny's Podcast, "He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
I'm really a big fan of uh cursor. I think it's like changed. I'm uh I love creating software
Lenny's Podcast, "He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)", lightning round, favourite recently discovered product; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
competing against luck which was the the uh book that produced jobs to be done which is a framework I really believe in.
Lenny's Podcast, "He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
actually one book I do recommend is um Endurance, which is the story of Shackleton's trip to go to the South Pole. Um like half the book is him starving to death and eating seal meat with his uh crew of people frozen in their boat. Uh, I've never seen a better story of grit in my entire life. It's like kind of remarkable that it's a true story. Um, and you know, if you want to like if you're an entrepreneur going through a hard time, read that.
Lenny's Podcast, "He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
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