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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Drew Houston

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Co-founded the online storage service Dropbox and held 24.4% of its voting power before the 2018 IPO; on the board of Meta Platforms since 2020.

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Blue Ocean StrategyBlue Ocean Strategy
T4 Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Chan Kim · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to create new market space instead of fighting rivals over existing demand.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Aaron Levie and 4 others

Built to LastBuilt to Last
T1 Built to Last
Jim Collins · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

What eighteen long-lived companies did differently from close rivals in their fields.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams, Jack Ma and 2 others

First, Break All The RulesFirst, Break All The Rules
T4 First, Break All The Rules
Marcus Buckingham, Gallup Organization · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Simon Sinek

Good to GreatGood to Great
T2 Good to Great
Jim Collins · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

What eleven companies did to turn fifteen ordinary years into fifteen great ones.

Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 15 others

High Output ManagementHigh Output Management
T1 High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 23 others

Only the Paranoid SurviveOnly the Paranoid Survive
T1 Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to spot a strategic inflection point, when a tenfold force changes a business.

Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai and 10 others

PeoplewarePeopleware
T4 Peopleware
Timothy Lister, Tom DeMarco · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Jeff Atwood

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really WorksPlaying to Win: How Strategy Really Works
T2 Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
Roger L. Martin, A.G. Lafley · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Strategy as five linked choices, including where to play and how to win.

Also recommended by: Justin Kan, Meg Whitman

PrinciplesPrinciples
T2 Principles
Ray Dalio · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Decision rules from building Bridgewater: radical truth and radical transparency.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Nat Eliason, Andrew Lokenauth and 27 others

The Effective ExecutiveThe Effective Executive
T1 The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker · 1967
Open LibraryGoodreads

Effectiveness is learned practice: manage time, pick priorities, decide well.

Also recommended by: Ev Williams, Nat Eliason, David Cancel and 4 others

The Innovator's DilemmaThe Innovator's Dilemma
T1 The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why well-run firms lose to cheaper, worse products that enter at the market's bottom.

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Aaron Levie and 26 others

Hard DriveHard Drive
T2 Hard Drive
James Wallace · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

A critical history of Bill Gates and the early Microsoft, from Lakeside School on.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 2 others

In The PlexIn The Plex
T2 In The Plex
Steven Levy · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Google's technical and business decisions from Stanford research to 2011.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Charlie Munger and 2 others

The Everything StoreThe Everything Store
T2 The Everything Store
Brad Stone · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Amazon's first two decades, from an online bookshop to selling nearly everything.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 6 others

The Facebook EffectThe Facebook Effect
T2 The Facebook Effect
David Kirkpatrick · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Facebook from its Harvard origin to 2010, with wide access to Zuckerberg.

Also recommended by: Dustin Moskovitz

Founders at WorkFounders at Work
T3 Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Alexis Ohanian, Andrew Chen and 5 others

The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsThe Hard Thing About Hard Things
T3 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 33 others

The 15 Commitments of Conscious LeadershipThe 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
T4 The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fifteen commitments for leading from curiosity instead of defensiveness.

Also recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Austin Rief, Brian Armstrong and 2 others

The Score Takes Care of ItselfThe Score Takes Care of Itself
T2 The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How a coach took the 49ers from 2 and 14 to three Super Bowls with set standards.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, David Cancel and 7 others

Crossing the ChasmCrossing the Chasm
T2 Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why tech products stall between early adopters and the mainstream, and how to cross.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 12 others

Guerilla MarketingGuerilla Marketing
T4 Guerilla Marketing
Jay Conrad Levinson · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads
Steve JobsSteve Jobs
T2 Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Steve Jobs's life and Apple's products, from forty interviews with him and many more.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 16 others

Poor Charlie's AlmanackPoor Charlie's Almanack
T1 Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Speeches making the case for a latticework of mental models from many fields.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 25 others

Getting to YesGetting to Yes
T1 Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher · 1981
Open LibraryGoodreads

Principled negotiation: bargain over interests, not positions, and trade less.

Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Nat Eliason, Nate O'Brien and 2 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

Emotional IntelligenceEmotional Intelligence
T4 Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Julian Shapiro