Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Ford Motor Company

Cars and aerospaceautomotive

The archetypal American mass-production company, and the subject of a deep literature on Henry Ford, the assembly line and repeated near-death turnarounds.

Books 8Experts 1Recommenders 2People 1

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  1. The ReckoningDavid Halberstam, 1986
  2. My Life and WorkHenry Ford, Samuel Crowther, 1922
  3. American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor CompanyBryce G. Hoffman, 2012
The ReckoningThe Reckoning
T1 The Reckoning
David Halberstam · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

Ford and Nissan side by side, showing why US carmakers lost to Japan.

My Life and WorkMy Life and Work
T2 My Life and Work
Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther · 1922
Open LibraryGoodreads

An industrial philosophy of mass production, written at the height of the Model T.

Ford: The Men and the MachineFord: The Men and the Machine
T2 Ford: The Men and the Machine
Robert Lacey · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

Three generations of Fords, Henry, Edsel and Henry II, and their company.

Wheels for the WorldWheels for the World
T2 Wheels for the World
Douglas Brinkley · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Ford Motor Company from 1903 to the end of the 20th century.

Recommended by: Paul Graham

The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the AmerThe People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
T2 The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
Steven Watts · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Henry Ford as a shaper of American culture as much as of its industry.

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight toAmerican Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
T3 American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
Bryce G. Hoffman · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 2006-2010 turnaround told with close management access.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

My Forty Years with FordMy Forty Years with Ford
T4 My Forty Years with Ford
Charles E. Sorensen · 1956
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Paul Graham

I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of HenryI Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
T4 I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
Richard Snow · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Tight narrative of the Model T years; the best short account.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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