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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Tesla

Cars and aerospaceelectric-vehicles

Electric vehicle and energy company whose survival, production crises and founder have produced both admiring and adversarial book-length accounts.

Books 9Experts 1Recommenders 14People 1

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  1. Power PlayTim Higgins, 2021
  2. Insane ModeHamish McKenzie, 2018
  3. LudicrousEdward Niedermeyer, 2019
Elon MuskElon Musk
T1 Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Musk's life from South Africa and PayPal to running SpaceX and Tesla at once.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Anthony Pompliano and 10 others

Elon MuskElon Musk
T1 Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Two years shadowing Musk, across SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and the buying of Twitter.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Terrance McArthur

Power PlayPower Play
T2 Power Play
Tim Higgins · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Tesla from its founding disputes through the Model 3 production crisis to 2020.

The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Ba
T3 The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
Steve LeVine · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

The global race to build a better lithium-ion battery for electric cars.

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car
T3 Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car
Lawrence D. Burns, Christopher Shulgan · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Autonomy from the incumbent and Waymo side.

Insane ModeInsane Mode
T3 Insane Mode
Hamish McKenzie · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Tesla and the global shift away from the combustion engine.

LudicrousLudicrous
T3 Ludicrous
Edward Niedermeyer · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sceptical account of Tesla's manufacturing and safety claims.

Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous CaDriven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
T3 Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
Alex Davies · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

The self-driving contest Tesla bet its valuation on.

Volt Rush
T3 Volt Rush
Henry Sanderson · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Lithium, cobalt and nickel supply chains behind the EV build-out.

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