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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Nick Crocker

Invests in Australian founders as a partner at Blackbird, where he set up the Melbourne office and led the investments team; earlier started the healthcare company Sessions and worked at Boxee and MyFitnessPal.

Blackbird Ventures

Nick Crocker on Medium

10 articles · 19 books they recommend · 20 appearances

Recommends 19Writing 10Appearances 20
More 4
A Bigger PictureA Bigger Picture
T4 A Bigger Picture
Malcolm Turnbull · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads
BelieverBeliever
T4 Believer
David Axelrod · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads
Personal HistoryPersonal History
T1 Personal History
Katharine Graham · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Running the Washington Post through the Pentagon Papers, Watergate and a strike.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Diana Kimball and 2 others

Rising StarRising Star
T4 Rising Star
David Garrow · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads
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

AstroballAstroball
T4 Astroball
Ben Reiter · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads
Beta Ball
T4 Beta Ball
Erik Malinowski
Goodreads
Collision Low CrossersCollision Low Crossers
T4 Collision Low Crossers
Nicholas Dawidoff · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
In the Firing Line
T4 In the Firing Line
Ed Cowan · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Education of a CoachThe Education of a Coach
T4 The Education of a Coach
David Halberstam · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Bill Belichick's life and career coaching the New England Patriots.

Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday

Double DownDouble Down
T4 Double Down
Mark Halperin, John Heilemann · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Best and the BrightestThe Best and the Brightest
T4 The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Fifth RiskThe Fifth Risk
T4 The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin

All the Pieces MatterAll the Pieces Matter
T4 All the Pieces Matter
Jonathan Abrams · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads
Bad BloodBad Blood
T1 Bad Blood
John Carreyrou · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Theranos reached a $9 billion value with blood tests that never worked.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Bill Gates, Andrew Chen and 6 others

LessLess
T4 Less
Andrew Sean Greer · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Craig Blair

Red NoticeRed Notice
T2 Red Notice
Bill Browder · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

An investor in Russia is expelled, his firms seized, and his lawyer Magnitsky dies.

Also recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai and 5 others

Age of AmbitionAge of Ambition
T4 Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison

EvictedEvicted
T4 Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eight Milwaukee families and two landlords through repeated evictions, 2008-09.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Emmett Shear and 2 others