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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Jenny Chu

Designer, Technology

8 books they recommend

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Shape UpShape Up
T3 Shape Up
Ryan Singer · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Singer's alternative to continuous sprints: fixed time, variable scope, with shaping work done in advance to reduce ambiguity before building begins. Whether or not the specific Basecamp process translates, the argument against infinite backlogs and the emphasis on appetite over estimation are worth wrestling with.

Also recommended by: George Hatzis, Jason Fried

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 Design of Everyday Things
T3 The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Goodreads

The book that introduced affordances, signifiers, and feedback loops to a generation of designers. Norman's analysis of why doors, phones, and stoves confuse people is the clearest argument that bad design is a systems failure, not user error. Everything else on this list builds on this vocabulary.

Also recommended by: Ran Segall, Andrew Chen, Garry Tan and 8 others

Creativity, Inc.Creativity, Inc.
T2 Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Pixar kept a creative company working after success, and the habits it used.

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Alexis Ohanian, Allen Gannett and 10 others

The Great Mental ModelsThe Great Mental Models
T3 The Great Mental Models
Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ana Fabrega, Chamath Palihapitiya and 2 others

Ego Is the EnemyEgo Is the Enemy
T3 Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, David Cancel, Nat Eliason and 3 others

Designing Your Life
T4 Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett
Goodreads

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin

The Courage to Be DislikedThe Courage to Be Disliked
T4 The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Alfred Adler's psychology taught through five nights of dialogue.

Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Andrew Wilkinson, Tim Ferriss and 10 others