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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Daniel Burka

Canadian designer who worked on the original Firefox identity at silverorange, was creative director of Digg, co-founded Pownce and was a design partner at Google Ventures.

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10 articles · 13 books they recommend · 13 appearances

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How Buildings LearnHow Buildings Learn
T4 How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Buildings as processes that change after they are built, and how to design for it.

Also recommended by: Stewart Brand, Caterina Fake, Jason Fried and 2 others

Ruined by DesignRuined by Design
T4 Ruined by Design
Mike Monteiro · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Timeless Way of BuildingThe Timeless Way of Building
T4 The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: David Perell

Understanding ComicsUnderstanding Comics
T4 Understanding Comics
Scott Mccloud · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bret Victor, Ev Williams

Creativity, Inc.Creativity, Inc.
T2 Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Pixar kept a creative company working after success, and the habits it used.

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Alexis Ohanian, Allen Gannett and 10 others

Good Strategy Bad StrategyGood Strategy Bad Strategy
T3 Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ann Handley, Michael Batko, Ran Segall

Invisible CitiesInvisible Cities
T4 Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of Marco Polo describing imagined cities to the emperor Kublai Khan.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 1 other

The MezzanineThe Mezzanine
T4 The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads
Mountains Beyond MountainsMountains Beyond Mountains
T4 Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Paul Farmer, the doctor who co-founded Partners In Health, treating the poor.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates and 2 others

Thinking in SystemsThinking in Systems
T3 Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Meadows wrote this before systems thinking became a popular phrase, and it remains the clearest account of why short-term interventions in complex systems so often backfire. The chapter on leverage points is the conceptual core of what long-term thinking actually requires from decision-makers.

Also recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy, John Maeda and 2 others

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, Bret Victor, Jeff Atwood

Thinking, Fast and SlowThinking, Fast and Slow
T3 Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

The Death and Life of Great American CitiesThe Death and Life of Great American Cities
T1 The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs · 1961
Open LibraryGoodreads

What makes city streets work, and how 1950s planning and slum clearance broke them.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Chris Dixon, Sam Altman