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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Brett Adcock

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Co-founded the hiring marketplace Vettery in 2013 and Archer Aviation in 2018, then set up Cover in 2023 and Hark in 2025; Forbes put his net worth at $23 billion in October 2026.

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12 books they recommend · 18 appearances

Recommends 12Appearances 18Profiles 2
More 2
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin
T2 Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Franklin's life as printer, scientist, diplomat and founder.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 6 others

Elon MuskElon Musk
T2 Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Anthony Pompliano and 9 others

Steve JobsSteve Jobs
T2 Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Steve Jobs's life and Apple's products, from forty interviews with him and many more.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 16 others

7 Powers7 Powers
T1 7 Powers
Hamilton Helmer · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Seven sources of lasting advantage, each a benefit plus a barrier to rivals.

Also recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Daniel Ek, Guy Spier and 5 others

Screw Business As UsualScrew Business As Usual
T4 Screw Business As Usual
Richard Branson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Elon Musk

The Innovator's DilemmaThe Innovator's Dilemma
T1 The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why well-run firms lose to cheaper, worse products that enter at the market's bottom.

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Aaron Levie and 26 others

The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsThe Hard Thing About Hard Things
T3 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 33 others

Zero to OneZero to One
T1 Zero to One
Peter Thiel · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Eric Weinstein and 35 others

SuperintelligenceSuperintelligence
T1 Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why machines smarter than humans pose a control problem to solve before they arrive.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Brad Feld, David Kadavy and 5 others

SapiensSapiens
T1 Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 37 others

Radical CandorRadical Candor
T3 Radical Candor
Kim Scott · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Scott's two-axis framework — care personally, challenge directly — gives a practical vocabulary for the feedback conversations managers routinely avoid. The quadrant model (Radical Candor, Ruinous Empathy, Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity) is one of the most operationally useful tools in management writing.

Also recommended by: Aileen Lee, David Cancel, George Hatzis and 6 others

OriginalsOriginals
T2 Originals
Adam Grant · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

How people champion new ideas, and how leaders can encourage originality.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Tony Hsieh, Alfred Lin and 6 others