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Designer and architect; led the Mediated Matter group at the MIT Media Lab and founded the design company Oxman.
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The GodfatherOther Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather is definitely up there. Francis Coppola is one of my heroes.
Lex Fridman Podcast #394, at (02:03:34); transcript published by the host. Asked for the best film of all time.
2023-09-01·lexfridman.com ↗
War and PeaceBook Leo Tolstoy
Anything I can find online by Lenny Bernstein, it’s reading a nature paper, it’s War and Peace. It’s really revisiting all the texts that are so timeless for me
Lex Fridman Podcast #394, at (01:37:18); transcript published by the host.
2023-09-01·lexfridman.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
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