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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Chamath Palihapitiya

Senior executive at Facebook from 2007 to 2011; his firm backs technology and healthcare companies and promoted SPAC deals. Co-hosts the All-In podcast.

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245 articles · 11 books they recommend

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Adult Children of Alcoholics
T4 Adult Children of Alcoholics
Janet Woititz
Goodreads
WantingWanting
T4 Wanting
Luke Burgis · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Rene Girard's theory that people imitate each other's desires, applied to business.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Garry Tan, Keith Wasserman and 1 other

Barbarians at the GateBarbarians at the Gate
T1 Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1988 bidding war for RJR Nabisco, the largest leveraged buyout to that date.

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai

The Great Mental ModelsThe Great Mental Models
T3 The Great Mental Models
Shane Parrish · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ana Fabrega, Jenny Chu, Matt Mullenweg and 1 other

AmericanaAmericana
T4 Americana
Bhu Srinivasan · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads
Disruptor (Seeker)Disruptor (Seeker)
T4 Disruptor (Seeker)
Arwen Elys Dayton · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads
Liar's PokerLiar's Poker
T1 Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Life on Salomon Brothers' bond trading floor in the 1980s mortgage-bond boom.

Also recommended by: Michael Burry, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 2 others

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide KThe Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
T4 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
Michael Craig · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Vital QuestionThe Vital Question
T4 The Vital Question
Nick Lane · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Patrick Collison

Fermat's EnigmaFermat's Enigma
T4 Fermat's Enigma
Simon Singh · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Life AscendingLife Ascending
T4 Life Ascending
Nick Lane
Goodreads