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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Maria Popova

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Bulgarian-born essayist, poet and critic who in 2006 started the blog Brain Pickings, now The Marginalian, on books, art, philosophy and culture.

The Marginalian

The Marginalian

300 articles · 14 books they recommend · 29 appearances

Recommends 14Writing 300Appearances 29Links 2
More 4
Gift from the SeaGift from the Sea
T4 Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Goodreads
Letters to a Young PoetLetters to a Young Poet
T4 Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Goodreads
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
T4 Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan
Goodreads

Also recommended by: Elon Musk

MeditationsMeditations
T1 Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 1626
Open LibraryGoodreads

A Roman emperor's private notes reminding himself to live by Stoic principles.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant and 16 others

On the Shortness of LifeOn the Shortness of Life
T4 On the Shortness of Life
Seneca · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Life is not short; people waste most of it, and how to use it well.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Ryan Holiday and 2 others

Man's Search for Meaning
T4 Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

Life in Nazi concentration camps, and logotherapy: finding meaning to survive.

Also recommended by: Frank Martin, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 23 others

WaldenWalden
T4 Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Shane Parrish

A Brief History of TimeA Brief History of Time
T4 A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Richard Branson

CosmosCosmos
T4 Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Goodreads

Also recommended by: Richard Branson

When Breath Becomes AirWhen Breath Becomes Air
T4 When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 asks what makes life worth living.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Morgan Housel and 10 others

Tao Te ChingTao Te Ching
T4 Tao Te Ching
Laozi · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eighty-one short chapters on the Tao, the founding text of Taoism.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, David Perell, Jack Dorsey and 5 others

The Little PrinceThe Little Prince
T4 The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1945
Open LibraryGoodreads

A stranded pilot meets a prince from a tiny asteroid who tells him of his rose.

Also recommended by: Ricardo Semler

A Grief ObservedA Grief Observed
T4 A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis
Goodreads
Bird by BirdBird by Bird
T4 Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Writing advice focused on the fears and habits that stop people writing.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Matt Mullenweg and 7 others