for folks who don't know about Retro, it's sort of like this small community photo sharing app in which you can only share um photos from each week from a given week as opposed to like all time. Um, and it basically has like none of the social media stuff. Like you can't really see like counts. It's not there's no ads, etc. Um, but one really nice thing is now that I've been using it for 2 years, I can now look back at each year and see like, oh yeah, this week two years ago I was doing this and it's become this really special way to like live through each week of my life
Lenny's Podcast, "The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it.", lightning round, favourite recently discovered product; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). The photo-sharing app.
I watched A Sentimental Value recently. I watched it on a plane, which is, you know, how how directors want you to watch their films. Um, but it's a it's a Norwegian film by the same director who did The Worst Person in the World. I think just the the pacing, the writing, the relationship between the characters is just really subtle and beautiful. Um, it's basically about this family, sort of a family drama, but also about this house that they lived in the entire their entire lives. It's beautiful cuz like the house is sort of a character. So, I don't know what else to say about that, but that was a really good movie.
Lenny's Podcast, "The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it.", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Joachim Trier's 2025 film; captions add "A" to the title.
Lenny's Podcast, "The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it.", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
the second one that I recommend to a lot of people is uh, a book called Insomniac City, which is written by Bill Hayes
Lenny's Podcast, "The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it.", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
I would also recommend obviously The Pit season 2.
Lenny's Podcast, "The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it.", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
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