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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JD

John D Saunders

Runs 5Four, a branding and web design agency he started after working as an agency digital marketing director; also founded Black Illustrations, a library of diverse illustrations downloaded over 100,000 times.

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8 articles · 15 books they recommend

Recommends 15Writing 8
More 2
EssentialismEssentialism
T4 Essentialism
Greg McKeown · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

A method for finding the few activities that matter and dropping the rest.

Also recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Nat Eliason, Ran Segall and 9 others

Miracle MorningMiracle Morning
T4 Miracle Morning
Hal Elrod · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

A daily morning routine, the SAVERS, meant to change results before the day starts.

The 4-Hour WorkweekThe 4-Hour Workweek
T3 The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Tim Ferriss's book belongs on a personal-finance list not for its investment advice but for its income argument: the fastest way to reach financial independence may be redesigning how and where you work rather than cutting spending to the bone. The 'new rich' framework is deliberately provocative, and the specific tactics age poorly, but the income-side case remains underweighted in most FIRE writing.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Ev Williams and 19 others

Think and Grow RichThink and Grow Rich
T4 Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill · 1937
Open LibraryGoodreads

Thirteen principles of getting rich, claimed to come from studying 500 wealthy men.

Also recommended by: Jim Clayton, Mohnish Pabrai and 7 others

Burn Your Portfolio
T4 Burn Your Portfolio
Mike Janda · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
Don't Make Me ThinkDon't Make Me Think
T3 Don't Make Me Think
Steve Krug · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Krug's web usability primer has stayed relevant for over two decades because its core argument — that good interfaces require no instruction — is timeless. The chapters on navigation conventions and usability testing with five users are still the most practical introduction to the discipline.

Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Andy Budd, Austen Allred and 5 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

The E-Myth RevisitedThe E-Myth Revisited
T2 The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Small firms fail when technicians run them; build systems that run the business.

Also recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Ali Abdaal, Andrew Wilkinson and 5 others

The Lean StartupThe Lean Startup
T2 The Lean Startup
Eric Ries · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Build, measure, learn: test what customers want with small experiments.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Sheryl Sandberg, Andrew Chen and 16 others

Value Proposition DesignValue Proposition Design
T4 Value Proposition Design
Alexander Osterwalder · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads
DOTCOM SecretsDOTCOM Secrets
T4 DOTCOM Secrets
Russell Brunson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads
Purple CowPurple Cow
T2 Purple Cow
Seth Godin · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Advertising has stopped working; build products remarkable enough to talk about.

Also recommended by: Tony Hsieh, Cindy Eckert, David Cancel and 2 others

Profit FirstProfit First
T4 Profit First
Mike Michalowicz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Cash discipline for small businesses; a system, not an accounting theory.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ran Segall

Step by Step Guide to Building Wealth from $
T4 Step by Step Guide to Building Wealth from $1
John D Saunders · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads
How To Win Friends and Influence PeopleHow To Win Friends and Influence People
T2 How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie · 1936
Open LibraryGoodreads

Techniques for handling people, being liked and winning others to your view.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 12 others