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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Delian Asparouhov

Partner at Founders Fund and co-founder of Varda Space Industries, which makes pharmaceuticals and materials in orbit; also co-created the Hill & Valley Forum, joining Washington and Silicon Valley leaders.

Founders FundVarda Space Industries

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14 articles · 15 books they recommend · 51 appearances

Recommends 15Writing 14Appearances 51
Atlas ShruggedAtlas Shrugged
T4 Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand · 1936
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel in which industrialists vanish from an economy run by government directives.

Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 17 others

Delta-vDelta-v
T4 Delta-v
Daniel Suarez · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads
FoundationFoundation
T4 Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1951
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel: a mathematician foresees an empire's fall and plans to shorten the dark age.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Adam Gazzaley and 10 others

Project Hail MaryProject Hail Mary
T4 Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of an amnesiac astronaut sent to stop a microbe that is dimming the sun.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Austen Allred, Brian Armstrong and 3 others

Red MarsRed Mars
T4 Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

The colonisation of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to a revolution.

SevenevesSeveneves
T4 Seveneves
Neal Stephenson · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Bill Gates

Stories of Your Life and OthersStories of Your Life and Others
T4 Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eight science-fiction stories, each working out one premise with rigour.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Tim Ferriss and 2 others

The MartianThe Martian
T4 The Martian
Andy Weir · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of an astronaut left alone on Mars who must survive until rescue.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Adam Ho, Bill Gates and 3 others

The Martian ChroniclesThe Martian Chronicles
T4 The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury · 1950
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Moon is a Harsh MistressThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress
T4 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein · 1965
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Paul Graham, Elon Musk

The Sands of MarsThe Sands of Mars
T4 The Sands of Mars
Arthur C. Clarke · 1951
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Three-Body ProblemThe Three-Body Problem
T4 The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel in which a scientist answers an alien warning and invites first contact.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Sophie Bakalar and 8 others

We Are LegionWe Are Legion
T4 We Are Legion
Dennis Taylor · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Case for SpaceThe Case for Space
T4 The Case for Space
Robert Zubrin · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads
Working in PublicWorking in Public
T2 Working in Public
Nadia Eghbal · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

How open-source software is really made and maintained, often by a few people.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan