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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Diana Kimball

Product leader at Gamma in San Francisco since June 2025; earlier an early-stage investor at Matrix Partners in B2B software and AI, and VP Product at Quip, which Salesforce bought in 2016.

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10 articles · 22 books they recommend · 3 appearances

Recommends 22Writing 10Appearances 3
More 5
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour BookstoreMr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
T4 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

MusashiMusashi
T4 Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa · 1936
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of Miyamoto Musashi's path from the Battle of Sekigahara to master swordsman.

Tenth of DecemberTenth of December
T4 Tenth of December
George Saunders · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bob Iger, Radhika Jones

The Last SamuraiThe Last Samurai
T4 The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Remains of the DayThe Remains of the Day
T4 The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Abi Tyas Tunggal, Jeff Bezos

Things Fall ApartThings Fall Apart
T4 Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Guy Proops, Jacqueline Novogratz and 1 other

When We Were OrphansWhen We Were Orphans
T4 When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads
H is for HawkH is for Hawk
T4 H is for Hawk
Helen MacDonald · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads
Personal HistoryPersonal History
T1 Personal History
Katharine Graham · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Running the Washington Post through the Pentagon Papers, Watergate and a strike.

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

The Folded ClockThe Folded Clock
T4 The Folded Clock
Heidi Julavits · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads
This Child Will Be GreatThis Child Will Be Great
T4 This Child Will Be Great
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads
Truth & Beauty
T4 Truth & Beauty
Ann Patchett
Goodreads
Ghetto at the Center of the WorldGhetto at the Center of the World
T4 Ghetto at the Center of the World
Gordon Mathews · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Power of GlamourThe Power of Glamour
T4 The Power of Glamour
Virginia Postrel
Goodreads
Close to the MachineClose to the Machine
T4 Close to the Machine
Ellen Ullman · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads
Magic and LossMagic and Loss
T4 Magic and Loss
Virginia Heffernan · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads
The $12 Million Stuffed SharkThe $12 Million Stuffed Shark
T2 The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
Donald N. Thompson · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

How prices are set in the contemporary art market, from dealers to auction houses.

Also recommended by: Tim Ferriss, Vinod Khosla

MindstormsMindstorms
T4 Mindstorms
Seymour A. Papert · 1980
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

American GroundAmerican Ground
T4 American Ground
William Langewiesche · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads
Living Contradictions
T4 Living Contradictions
Alison Jaggar
Goodreads
It’s Always PersonalIt’s Always Personal
T4 It’s Always Personal
Anne Kreamer · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads
Both Flesh and NotBoth Flesh and Not
T4 Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace · 1861
Open LibraryGoodreads