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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David Perell

Writes essays, runs the writing school Write of Passage, and hosts How I Write, a weekly podcast on which writers explain their process; also curates Writing Examples.

Write of Passage

David Perell essays

90 articles · 12 books they recommend · 12 appearances

Recommends 12Writing 90Appearances 12Links 1
More 4
12 Rules for Life12 Rules for Life
T4 12 Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Twelve rules for living, each drawn from clinical practice, biology and myth.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alex and Books, Ana Fabrega and 6 others

Antifragile: Things That Gain from DisorderAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
T3 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Incerto volume 4

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 24 others

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
T2 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert 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

The Timeless Way of BuildingThe Timeless Way of Building
T4 The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Daniel Burka

The War of ArtThe War of Art
T3 The War of Art
Steven Pressfield · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Pressfield's book on resistance applies with particular force to musicians, where the gap between technical facility and creative output is often enormous. The concept of 'turning pro' — treating creative work as a practice with professional discipline regardless of whether it pays — is the mental shift that separates hobbyists from people who actually finish records.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Alex and Books and 10 others

Tao Te ChingTao Te Ching
T4 Tao Te Ching
Laozi · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eighty-one short chapters on the Tao, the founding text of Taoism.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Jack Dorsey, Jack Ma and 5 others

The Psychology of MoneyThe Psychology of Money
T4 The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Twenty short essays on why behaviour matters more than knowledge with money.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal and 9 others

The Lessons of HistoryThe Lessons of History
T2 The Lessons of History
Will Durant, Ariel Durant · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recurring patterns drawn from world history: biology, morals, religion, economics.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 11 others

Understanding MediaUnderstanding Media
T4 Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan · 1964
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Power of MythThe Power of Myth
T3 The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Campbell on the recurring stories cultures tell themselves

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Nat Eliason, Eric Weinstein and 2 others

The Boron LettersThe Boron Letters
T4 The Boron Letters
Gary Halbert · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Letters from prison to a teenage son on direct-mail copywriting and living well.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason

The Bible
T4 The Bible
Various
Goodreads