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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Mike Maples, Jr.

Co-founded Floodgate as one of the first seed funds after 2004 and invested in Twitter, Twitch, Okta and Applied Intuition; earlier an executive at Tivoli Systems and Motive, and wrote Pattern Breakers.

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10 articles · 10 books they recommend · 24 appearances

Recommends 10Writing 10Appearances 24
Hope for the FlowersHope for the Flowers
T4 Hope for the Flowers
Trina Paulus · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
T4 Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
Goodreads

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The Count of Monte CristoThe Count of Monte Cristo
T4 The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 1920
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Sahil Lavingia

How Will You Measure Your Life?How Will You Measure Your Life?
T4 How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Business strategy theories applied to career, family and integrity.

Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 5 others

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On ItLove Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
T4 Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Kamal Ravikant · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant, Garry Tan

The Top Five Regrets of the DyingThe Top Five Regrets of the Dying
T4 The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Way Things WorkThe Way Things Work
T4 The Way Things Work
C. Van Amerongen · 1967
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Wealth of NetworksThe Wealth of Networks
T4 The Wealth of Networks
Yochai Benkler · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

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

Living ForwardLiving Forward
T4 Living Forward
Michael Hyatt
Goodreads

Also recommended by: Tony Robbins