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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JH

Jordan Hughes

Australian product and web designer who created Untitled UI, a Figma UI kit and design system, in 2021; earlier head of design at UpGuard, and built and later sold goodbooks.io.

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26 books they recommend · 2 appearances

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ExhalationExhalation
T4 Exhalation
Ted Chiang · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Nine science-fiction stories, each working through one idea with care.

Also recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 1 other

Jurassic ParkJurassic Park
T4 Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Richard Branson

RecursionRecursion
T4 Recursion
Blake Crouch · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ran Segall

The Day of the JackalThe Day of the Jackal
T4 The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth · 1971
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
T4 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Goodreads
The Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the Rings
T4 The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of the quest to destroy a ring of power that corrupts all who use it.

Also recommended by: Reid Hoffman, Alexey Moiseenkov, Elon Musk and 4 others

Skin in the GameSkin in the Game
T3 Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Incerto volume 5

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ana Fabrega, Ben Horowitz and 11 others

Stillness is the KeyStillness is the Key
T3 Stillness is the Key
Ryan Holiday · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Cal Newport

The Almanack of Naval RavikantThe Almanack of Naval Ravikant
T4 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Naval Ravikant's ideas on building wealth and being happy, gathered from his talks.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Nat Eliason and 8 others

The Obstacle Is the WayThe Obstacle Is the Way
T3 The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday, James Altucher and 3 others

Design Is a JobDesign Is a Job
T4 Design Is a Job
Mike Monteiro · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads
Refactoring UIRefactoring UI
T3 Refactoring UI
Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Where most design books stay in the abstract, this one opens with specific visual decisions: spacing scales, type hierarchies, color palette construction, shadow systems. Written by developers who taught themselves visual design, it's unusually practical and works equally well for product designers who want stronger visual intuition.

Also recommended by: Charlie Marie Prangley

User FriendlyUser Friendly
T4 User Friendly
Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Austen Allred

Atomic HabitsAtomic Habits
T4 Atomic Habits
James Clear · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Build habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.

Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 20 others

Deep WorkDeep Work
T4 Deep Work
Cal Newport · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why distraction-free concentration is rare and valuable, and how to train for it.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Nir Eyal, Abi Tyas Tunggal and 5 others

So Good They Can't Ignore YouSo Good They Can't Ignore You
T3 So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Career capital before passion; building rare and valuable skills

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alexis Ohanian, Kevin Kelly and 1 other

Eating AnimalsEating Animals
T4 Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

We Are the WeatherWe Are the Weather
T4 We Are the Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!""Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
T4 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard P. Feynman · 1984
Open LibraryGoodreads

A physicist's stories, from fixing radios as a boy to Los Alamos and beyond.

Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Matt Mullenweg and 18 others

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

How Not to DieHow Not to Die
T4 How Not to Die
Dr. Michael Greger · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

The evidence for a diet that can prevent and treat the leading causes of death.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Karlene Markham and 1 other

The Score Takes Care of ItselfThe Score Takes Care of Itself
T2 The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How a coach took the 49ers from 2 and 14 to three Super Bowls with set standards.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, David Cancel and 7 others

RangeRange
T2 Range
David Epstein · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Early specialisation works only where rules are stable; elsewhere breadth wins.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Abi Tyas Tunggal, Alex Lieberman and 10 others

The TigerThe Tiger
T4 The Tiger
John Vaillant · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Bryant Chou, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 1 other

MoneyballMoneyball
T1 Moneyball
Michael Lewis · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the Oakland A's won on a small payroll by buying players the market undervalued.

Also recommended by: Joel Greenblatt, Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams and 1 other

Creative SelectionCreative Selection
T3 Creative Selection
Ken Kocienda · 2018
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Insider account by the engineer who built the iPhone keyboard.

Also recommended by: Chris Dixon, Keith Rabois