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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JV

Jackie Vullinghs

Joined Airtree in 2018 and is now a partner; earlier sold equity derivatives at Citi and Merrill Lynch and was chief of staff at the London software startup Kalo, after studying history at Cambridge.

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20 articles · 13 books they recommend · 5 appearances

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Doughnut EconomicsDoughnut Economics
T4 Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth · 2017
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Narrative EconomicsNarrative Economics
T4 Narrative Economics
Robert J. Shiller · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

How popular stories spread like epidemics and drive economic events.

Stubborn AttachmentsStubborn Attachments
T2 Stubborn Attachments
Tyler Cowen · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why societies should put sustainable long-run growth almost above all else.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

Let My People Go SurfingLet My People Go Surfing
T4 Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Patagonia's founder on running a business against conventional growth logic

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, David Cancel and 2 others

The Messy MiddleThe Messy Middle
T4 The Messy Middle
Scott Belsky · 2018
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TractionTraction
T3 Traction
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alex Lieberman, Alexis Ohanian and 6 others

A Place of Greater SafetyA Place of Greater Safety
T4 A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel · 1992
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Girl, Woman, OtherGirl, Woman, Other
T4 Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo · 2019
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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, Diana Kimball and 2 others

The ONE ThingThe ONE Thing
T4 The ONE Thing
Gary Keller, Jay Papasan · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Extraordinary results come from narrowing focus to the one thing that matters most.

Also recommended by: David Cancel, Alexis Ohanian, Austen Allred and 2 others

The Righteous MindThe Righteous Mind
T4 The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt · 2012
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Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Tristan Harris, Tyler Cowen

The Ultimate Sales MachineThe Ultimate Sales Machine
T4 The Ultimate Sales Machine
Chet Holmes · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Noah Kagan

BehaveBehave
T1 Behave
Robert M. Sapolsky · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Explains an action by tracing its causes back from neurons to hormones to evolution.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Bryan Johnson and 4 others