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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Warner Bros. / Time Warner

Media and entertainmentmedia-entertainment

A studio and conglomerate defined by serial mergers; the AOL deal alone generated several of the best merger post-mortems written.

Books 9Experts 2Recommenders 2
Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the CreatMaster of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner
T2 Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner
Connie Bruck · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Steve Ross's path from funeral homes and parking lots to the Time Warner merger.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Charlie Munger

Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner
T2 Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner
Nina Munk · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the AOL and Time Warner merger fell apart within four years.

Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner
T3 Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner
Alec Klein · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the AOL Time Warner merger, the largest in US history, fell apart.

There Must Be a Pony in Here SomewhereThere Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere
T3 There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere
Kara Swisher · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

The AOL side of the AOL Time Warner merger, reported as it collapsed.

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. StoYou Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
T3 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Richard Schickel · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Illustrated studio history tied to the documentary of the same name.

Warner Bros: The Making of an American MovieWarner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
T3 Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
David Thomson · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Short critical history of the brothers and the studio style.

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, RevolutioIt's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
T3 It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
Felix Gillette, John Koblin · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

HBO, the asset that carried the group through three owners.

The Brothers Warner
T4 The Brothers Warner
Cass Warner Sperling, Cork Millner · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Family insider history of the studio's founding generation.

Citizen TurnerCitizen Turner
T4 Citizen Turner
Robert Goldberg, Gerald Jay Goldberg · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Turner Broadcasting, absorbed by Time Warner in 1996.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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