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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Mario Gabriele

Runs The Generalist, a publication of researched interviews, company case studies and guides on technology, artificial intelligence and venture capital.

The Generalist

The Generalist

300 articles · 13 books they recommend

Recommends 13Writing 300
Crime and PunishmentCrime and Punishment
T4 Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1928
Open LibraryGoodreads
Giovanni's RoomGiovanni's Room
T4 Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 1956
Open LibraryGoodreads
Invisible CitiesInvisible Cities
T4 Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of Marco Polo describing imagined cities to the emperor Kublai Khan.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 1 other

LolitaLolita
T4 Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1777
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ev Williams

Norwegian WoodNorwegian Wood
T4 Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Pale FirePale Fire
T4 Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 1945
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel built around a 999-line poem a fictional poet wrote in his last 20 days.

SiddharthaSiddhartha
T4 Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 1922
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a Brahmin's son in ancient India who seeks understanding his own way.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Naval Ravikant and 5 others

Slaughterhouse-FiveSlaughterhouse-Five
T4 Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1956
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Joel Connolly and 1 other

The AlchemistThe Alchemist
T4 The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Daniel Ek and 8 others

The Buried GiantThe Buried Giant
T4 The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Sense of an EndingThe Sense of an Ending
T4 The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Guy Proops

Things Fall ApartThings Fall Apart
T4 Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Diana Kimball, Guy Proops and 1 other

The Mind–Body Problem
T4 The Mind–Body Problem
Jonathan Westphal
Goodreads

The mind-body problem from Descartes to today, and a case for neutral monism.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison