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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Bryan Johnson

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Founded Braintree, which bought Venmo in 2012 and sold to PayPal for $800 million in 2013; then founded the brain-recording company Kernel and OS Fund, and is known for his anti-aging regimen.

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Future Literacy on Medium

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T4 Number
Tobias Dantzig · 1954
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How the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times to the twentieth century.

The Annotated Flatland
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When Einstein Walked with GödelWhen Einstein Walked with Gödel
T4 When Einstein Walked with Gödel
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ZeroZero
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Charles Seife · 2000
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DeviateDeviate
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Beau Lotto · 2017
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Man's Search for Meaning
T4 Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 1968
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Life in Nazi concentration camps, and logotherapy: finding meaning to survive.

Also recommended by: Frank Martin, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 23 others

Thinking, Fast and SlowThinking, Fast and Slow
T3 Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
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Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charles de Vaulx and 31 others

But What If We're Wrong?But What If We're Wrong?
T3 But What If We're Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman · 2016
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How present certainties will look to the future; outside view applied

Also recommended by: Marc Andreessen, Brad Feld, James Cameron

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
T2 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
Open LibraryGoodreads

A father and son's motorcycle trip framing an inquiry into what Quality means.

Also recommended by: Brad Feld, Mohnish Pabrai, Nick Sleep and 7 others

BehaveBehave
T1 Behave
Robert M. Sapolsky · 2017
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Explains an action by tracing its causes back from neurons to hormones to evolution.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates and 5 others

The End Of ScienceThe End Of Science
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John Horgan
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A Good ManA Good Man
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Mark Shriver · 2012
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A Mind at PlayA Mind at Play
T2 A Mind at Play
Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman · 2017
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The life of Claude Shannon, whose information theory underlies the digital age.

Also recommended by: Jim O'Shaughnessy, Paul Graham

PrinciplesPrinciples
T2 Principles
Ray Dalio · 2017
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Decision rules from building Bridgewater: radical truth and radical transparency.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Nat Eliason, Andrew Lokenauth and 27 others

SiddharthaSiddhartha
T4 Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 1922
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A novel of a Brahmin's son in ancient India who seeks understanding his own way.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Naval Ravikant and 5 others

How to Change Your MindHow to Change Your Mind
T4 How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan · 2018
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The history and revival of psychedelic research, and the author's own trips.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, James Cameron and 7 others

EnduranceEndurance
T2 Endurance
Alfred Lansing · 1959
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Shackleton's men survive after the ice crushes their ship Endurance in Antarctica.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Morgan Housel, Nat Eliason and 6 others