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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Jim Simons's quantitative fund, whose Medallion returns are the best on record; extreme secrecy means one book carries the subject.

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T1 The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Jim Simons's Renaissance used maths and data to earn the best returns on record.

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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the MakMore Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
T2 More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hedge funds from Alfred Winslow Jones in 1949 through Soros, Robertson and beyond.

“It's hard to imagine anyone will ever write a better book on the subject.” — Paul Graham

Source: Paul Graham on X (Apr 8, 2021)

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham, Josh Wolfe and 1 other

The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
T2 The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
Scott Patterson · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

The intellectual line from LTCM to the 2007 quant unwind.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the SFortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
T3 Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
William Poundstone · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Kelly criterion for sizing bets, from Bell Labs to casinos and hedge funds.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
T3 The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
James Owen Weatherall · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

How physicists and mathematicians came to run money; useful context for Simons.

Recommended by: Eric Weinstein

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