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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Ann Handley

Strategists

Co-founded the marketing businesses ClickZ and MarketingProfs and was the first person to hold the title chief content officer; wrote Everybody Writes and sends the fortnightly newsletter Total Annarchy.

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Ann Handley articles

296 articles · 16 books they recommend

Recommends 16Writing 296
More 4
A Manual for Cleaning WomenA Manual for Cleaning Women
T4 A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads
Charlotte’s WebCharlotte’s Web
T4 Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White · 1952
Open LibraryGoodreads
James and the Giant PeachJames and the Giant Peach
T4 James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl · 1961
Open LibraryGoodreads
The New Rules of Marketing and PRThe New Rules of Marketing and PR
T4 The New Rules of Marketing and PR
David Meerman Scott · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads
UnMarketingUnMarketing
T4 UnMarketing
Scott, Alison Stratten · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads
Your Ad Ignored Here
T4 Your Ad Ignored Here
Tom Fishburne · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads
Good Strategy Bad StrategyGood Strategy Bad Strategy
T3 Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Daniel Burka, Michael Batko, Ran Segall

LinchpinLinchpin
T2 Linchpin
Seth Godin · 1960
Open LibraryGoodreads

Valuable work now needs people who do what can't be written into a job description.

Also recommended by: Michael Batko, Tom Bilyeu, Tony Hsieh and 1 other

We Should All Be FeministsWe Should All Be Feminists
T4 We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads
Where I Was FromWhere I Was From
T4 Where I Was From
Joan Didion · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads
One Man’s MeatOne Man’s Meat
T4 One Man’s Meat
E.B. White · 1941
Open LibraryGoodreads

Essays on farm life in Maine, written after leaving New York City.

The Elements of StyleThe Elements of Style
T4 The Elements of Style
William Strunk, E.B. White · 1920
Open LibraryGoodreads

Numbered rules of English usage and composition, with examples, under 100 pages.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, Kara Swisher and 2 others

The War of ArtThe War of Art
T3 The War of Art
Steven Pressfield · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Pressfield's book on resistance applies with particular force to musicians, where the gap between technical facility and creative output is often enormous. The concept of 'turning pro' — treating creative work as a practice with professional discipline regardless of whether it pays — is the mental shift that separates hobbyists from people who actually finish records.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Alex and Books and 10 others

Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
T4 Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Goodreads
Start with WhyStart with Why
T3 Start with Why
Simon Sinek · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sinek's Golden Circle (Why/How/What) is less empirically grounded than the rest of this list, but its core observation is accurate: people don't follow what you do, they follow why you do it. Useful for understanding how leaders communicate identity externally and why some inspire loyalty while others just manage compliance.

Also recommended by: Richard Branson, Tony Hsieh, Alfred Lin and 3 others

Rules of the Red Rubber BallRules of the Red Rubber Ball
T4 Rules of the Red Rubber Ball
Kevin Carroll · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads