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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Emmett Shear

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Co-founded the live video site Justin.tv and ran its spin-off Twitch as CEO until March 2023; briefly interim CEO of OpenAI in November 2023, and a part-time Y Combinator partner from 2011.

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15 books they recommend · 29 appearances

Recommends 15Appearances 29Profiles 2
More 4
ShōgunShōgun
T4 Shōgun
James Clavell · 1975
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ran Segall

SilverSilver
T4 Silver
Linda Nagata
Goodreads
The City & The City
T4 The City & The City
China Miéville
Goodreads
How Emotions Are MadeHow Emotions Are Made
T4 How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads
RationalityRationality
T3 Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Yudkowsky's collected LessWrong essays, free online and in compiled book form, develop the epistemic foundations that underpin his AI doom arguments. The reasoning about cognitive biases, Bayesian updating, and decision theory is independently useful; the AI safety arguments that follow are the most influential non-peer-reviewed work in the field.

The Elephant in the BrainThe Elephant in the Brain
T3 The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hanson and Simler make the most provocative claim in this list: that self-deception is not a flaw but an adaptive strategy — we hide our real motives from ourselves so we can more convincingly hide them from others. If true, the entire bias-correction project has a ceiling. This book belongs at the end so it reframes everything before it.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal, Julian Shapiro and 2 others

Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
T4 Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
David Friedman
Goodreads
Violence and Social OrdersViolence and Social Orders
T4 Violence and Social Orders
Douglass C. North · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads
EvictedEvicted
T4 Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eight Milwaukee families and two landlords through repeated evictions, 2008-09.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Keith Wasserman and 2 others

Poor People
T4 Poor People
Vollman
Goodreads

Poverty around the world in its hopelessness, brutality, pride and fear.

Order Without DesignOrder Without Design
T4 Order Without Design
Alain Bertaud · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Cities as labour markets, and planning that works with land markets.

Also recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The PrizeThe Prize
T1 The Prize
Daniel Yergin · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

The history of oil from the first Pennsylvania well to the Gulf War.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 2 others

MoneyMoney
T4 Money
Felix Martin
Goodreads
Nonviolent CommunicationNonviolent Communication
T4 Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Four steps to speak without blame: observations, feelings, needs and requests.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Dustin Moskovitz and 2 others

Quantum Computing Since DemocritusQuantum Computing Since Democritus
T4 Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Scott Aaronson · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison