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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John Brooks

T2JournalistsFinancial history and ideas

Wrote on finance for The New Yorker for many years and published fiction and nonfiction, best known for his account of the 1960s Wall Street bull market. Died in 1993.

The New Yorker

Business Adventures collects twelve reported case studies - the Edsel launch, the 1962 market break, the Texas Gulf Sulphur insider-trading case - that show how judgment failed inside real firms rather than in theory. Once in Golconda and The Go-Go Years narrate the 1920s boom and the 1960s conglomerate mania from the participants' side, at the level of individual decisions.

3 books of their own · 200 articles

Books 3Writing 200Profiles 3

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  1. Business AdventuresJohn Brooks, 1969
  2. The Go-Go YearsJohn Brooks, 1973
  3. Once in GolcondaJohn Brooks, 1969
Business AdventuresBusiness Adventures
T2 Business Adventures
John Brooks · 1969
Open LibraryGoodreads

Twelve New Yorker stories of business, from the Edsel's failure to the 1962 crash.

“Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read.” — Bill Gates

Source: Gates Notes review of Business Adventures

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 1 other

The Go-Go YearsThe Go-Go Years
T2 The Go-Go Years
John Brooks · 1973
Open LibraryGoodreads

Wall Street in the 1960s: performance funds, conglomerates and the paperwork crisis.

“Both books are outstanding histories of Rockefeller and Standard Oil and then of the booming 1960s.” — Christopher Bloomstran

Source: Semper Augustus 2022 Letter to Clients, 'Books and Stuff', p. 75

Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai

Once in GolcondaOnce in Golconda
T2 Once in Golconda
John Brooks · 1969
Open LibraryGoodreads

Wall Street from 1920 to 1938: the boom, the crash, the Depression and reform.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Brendan Moynihan

Business AdventuresTwelve New Yorker stories of business, from the Edsel's failure to the 1962 crash.1969T2Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 1 others
The Go-Go YearsWall Street in the 1960s: performance funds, conglomerates and the paperwork crisis.1973T2Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai
Once in GolcondaWall Street from 1920 to 1938: the boom, the crash, the Depression and reform.1969T2Mohnish Pabrai, Brendan Moynihan

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