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As smart and rich as this guy was, and I know very little of him besides his critique of cryptocurrencies, I wonder about his empathy. That dorm design...https://youtu.be/VKXOQ8duhRg

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The lack of windows sucks, but there's another term in the equation -- one the high-brow architecture critics I guess think beneath their dignity to mention. And that is: All rooms have a single bed, meeting the prime requirement for a young couple's first "love nest".

Furthermore I'll argue that "sexiling" is really a gross injustice, and damaging to the education of the sexilee, as if he hadn't already been dealt a pile of misery. The Munger dorm then shows great social wisdom and benevolence in its proactive elimination of sexiling through architectural design.

The reason for the design was to put the communal areas by the windows so people would come out and mix. It seems popular at the one they built https://youtu.be/LzsjKdGehb0

This sounds like an academic version of the "return to office" mandates.

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