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Foundation

Isaac Asimov · 1951

Recommended by 4 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Sal Khan liked it
Khan Academy was inspired in part by the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. The concept of collecting and spreading knowledge for the benefit of humanity deeply resonated with me.

on blog.khanacademy.org · 26 Feb 2025 · Report

Balaji Srinivasan recommends it
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked

on balajis.com · 2 Feb 2025 · Report

Elon Musk liked it
Asimov’s Foundation books were a strong influence on me as a child

on X · 6 Jun 2023 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.