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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Bret Victor

Interface designer, computer scientist and electrical engineer known for his talks on the future of computing; designed interfaces at Apple from 2007 to 2010.

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Bret Victor

8 articles · 31 books they recommend · 4 appearances

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More 6
Beautiful EvidenceBeautiful Evidence
T4 Beautiful Evidence
Edward R. Tufte · 2006
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Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Jeff Atwood

Designing for PeopleDesigning for People
T4 Designing for People
Henry Dreyfuss · 1955
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

Envisioning InformationEnvisioning Information
T4 Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to show complex information on flat paper or screens, with many examples.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Jeff Atwood, Kevin Rose

Logic and DesignLogic and Design
T4 Logic and Design
Krome Barratt
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Making ComicsMaking Comics
T4 Making Comics
Scott McCloud · 2006
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Also recommended by: Kevin Kelly

Meggs' History of Graphic Design
T4 Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis · 2025
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Reinventing ComicsReinventing Comics
T4 Reinventing Comics
Scott McCloud · 2000
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The Humane InterfaceThe Humane Interface
T4 The Humane Interface
Jef Raskin · 2000
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Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Dustin Moskovitz

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
T4 The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper · 1999
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Understanding ComicsUnderstanding Comics
T4 Understanding Comics
Scott Mccloud · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Daniel Burka, Ev Williams

Mathematics
T4 Mathematics
A. D. Aleksandrov · 1965
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Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

New Horizons in GeometryNew Horizons in Geometry
T4 New Horizons in Geometry
Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian, Tom M. Apostol · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Elements of Graphing DataThe Elements of Graphing Data
T4 The Elements of Graphing Data
William S. Cleveland · 1985
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The Nature of Mathematical ModelingThe Nature of Mathematical Modeling
T4 The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
Neil Gershenfeld · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Techniques for mathematical modelling, aimed at simple, efficient computer code.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Visual Display of Quantitative InformatiThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information
T4 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Daniel Burka, Jeff Atwood

Visual ExplanationsVisual Explanations
T4 Visual Explanations
Edward R. Tufte · 1997
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Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Jeff Atwood

Where Mathematics Comes FromWhere Mathematics Comes From
T4 Where Mathematics Comes From
George Lakoff, Rafael Núñez · 2000
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Hacker's DelightHacker's Delight
T4 Hacker's Delight
Henry S. Warren Jr. · 2002
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Simulation and Its DiscontentsSimulation and Its Discontents
T4 Simulation and Its Discontents
Sherry Turkle · 2009
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Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
T1 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson · 1985
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MIT's introductory computer science text, taught through Lisp and Scheme.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Paul Graham, Max Levchin

The Little SchemerThe Little Schemer
T4 The Little Schemer
Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Paul Graham, Susan J. Fowler

What the Dormouse SaidWhat the Dormouse Said
T4 What the Dormouse Said
John Markoff · 2005
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Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Kevin Kelly

The Ecological Approach to Visual PerceptionThe Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
T4 The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
James J. Gibson · 1979
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The Origin of ConsciousnessThe Origin of Consciousness
T4 The Origin of Consciousness
Julian Jaynes · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads

The theory that consciousness is learned, arising from a once two-chambered mind.

Also recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Adam Robinson and 2 others

Snow CrashSnow Crash
T4 Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a hacker in a corporate-run America and its virtual world, the Metaverse.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant, Alexis Ohanian and 11 others

Rules of Play
T4 Rules of Play
Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Eric Zimmerman · 2003
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The Clock of the Long NowThe Clock of the Long Now
T3 The Clock of the Long Now
Stewart Brand · 1999
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Brand's book is the founding document of institutional long-term thinking. It proposes a 10,000-year clock as a forcing function for civilizational patience, and along the way develops the concept of pace layers — the idea that different structures (fashion, commerce, governance, culture, nature) change at radically different speeds, and that confusing these speeds is the root of most short-termism.

Also recommended by: Phil Libin, Stewart Brand

Being ThereBeing There
T4 Being There
Dave Furman · 2016
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The Art of Doing Science and EngineeringThe Art of Doing Science and Engineering
T4 The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard Hamming · 1996
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The Domestication of the Savage MindThe Domestication of the Savage Mind
T4 The Domestication of the Savage Mind
Jack Goody · 1977
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T4 About Face
David H. Hackworth · 1989
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