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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Julian Shapiro

Founded Demand Curve, which has helped thousands of companies with growth strategy; earlier VP of marketing at Webflow, wrote TechCrunch's growth marketing column and created the animation engine Velocity.

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11 articles · 11 books they recommend · 30 appearances

Recommends 11Writing 11Appearances 30
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The Black SwanThe Black Swan
T4 The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Rare, unforeseen, high-impact events drive history, explained only after the fact.

Also recommended by: Howard Marks, Marc Andreessen, Nat Eliason and 17 others

Thinking in BetsThinking in Bets
T3 Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Judge decisions by their reasoning, not their outcomes, and think in odds.

Also recommended by: Ev Williams, Ana Fabrega, Jason Fried and 4 others

SapiensSapiens
T1 Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 37 others

The Lessons of HistoryThe Lessons of History
T2 The Lessons of History
Will, Ariel Durant · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recurring patterns drawn from world history: biology, morals, religion, economics.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 11 others

How Democracies DieHow Democracies Die
T4 How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Barack Obama

What's Our Problem?What's Our Problem?
T4 What's Our Problem?
Tim Urban · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ev Williams, Elon Musk

Emotional IntelligenceEmotional Intelligence
T4 Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Drew Houston

The Elephant in the BrainThe Elephant in the Brain
T3 The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hanson and Simler make the most provocative claim in this list: that self-deception is not a flaw but an adaptive strategy — we hide our real motives from ourselves so we can more convincingly hide them from others. If true, the entire bias-correction project has a ceiling. This book belongs at the end so it reframes everything before it.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal, Emmett Shear and 2 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

How to Lie with StatisticsHow to Lie with Statistics
T1 How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff · 1954
Open LibraryGoodreads

How biased samples, chosen averages and cut-off chart axes make numbers mislead.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Morgan Housel and 5 others

The Coddling of the American MindThe Coddling of the American Mind
T2 The Coddling of the American Mind
Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Three false beliefs taught to young Americans, and how they harm their minds.

Also recommended by: Eric Weinstein, Michael Mauboussin and 1 other