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 Szabo

Computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer known for his research on smart contracts and digital currency.

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150 articles · 21 books they recommend · 10 appearances

Recommends 21Writing 150Appearances 10Profiles 1
More 3
Conquest, Tribute and TradeConquest, Tribute and Trade
T4 Conquest, Tribute and Trade
Howard J. Erlichman · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads
GlassGlass
T4 Glass
Alan Macfarlane · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads
Masters of the WordMasters of the Word
T4 Masters of the Word
William J. Bernstein · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Black Book of Communism
T4 The Black Book of Communism
Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek
Goodreads
The Columbian ExchangeThe Columbian Exchange
T4 The Columbian Exchange
Alfred Crosby · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Fourth Part of the WorldThe Fourth Part of the World
T4 The Fourth Part of the World
Toby Lester · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Measure of Reality
T4 The Measure of Reality
Alfred Crosby
Goodreads
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern EuroThe Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
T4 The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads
To Rule the WavesTo Rule the Waves
T4 To Rule the Waves
Arthur Herman · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads
A Splendid ExchangeA Splendid Exchange
T2 A Splendid Exchange
William J. Bernstein · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Long-distance trade from Mesopotamia and the spice routes to modern globalisation.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Mohnish Pabrai

The Fatal ConceitThe Fatal Conceit
T4 The Fatal Conceit
F.A. Hayek · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

A critique of socialism: why morality and markets are not products of reason.

The Wealth of NationsThe Wealth of Nations
T1 The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 1776
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the division of labour and free markets make a nation rich.

Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Patrick Collison and 6 others

The 10,000 Year ExplosionThe 10,000 Year Explosion
T4 The 10,000 Year Explosion
Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How lactose tolerance, malaria resistance and blue eyes evolved in 10,000 years.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Red QueenThe Red Queen
T2 The Red Queen
Matt Ridley · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sex evolved as a defence against parasites, and that shapes human mating.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Naval Ravikant, Seth Klarman

The Selfish GeneThe Selfish Gene
T1 The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads

Selection acts on genes; bodies are vehicles that genes build to copy themselves.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Charlie Munger and 9 others

A History of Western TechnologyA History of Western Technology
T4 A History of Western Technology
Friedrich Klemm · 1959
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Most Powerful Idea in the WorldThe Most Powerful Idea in the World
T4 The Most Powerful Idea in the World
William Rosen · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai

Getting To MaybeGetting To Maybe
T4 Getting To Maybe
Richard Michael Fischl · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads
Atlas ShruggedAtlas Shrugged
T4 Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand · 1936
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel in which industrialists vanish from an economy run by government directives.

Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 17 others

Money Changes EverythingMoney Changes Everything
T2 Money Changes Everything
William N. Goetzmann · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Finance as a technology that built civilisation, from clay tablets onward.

Metaphors We Live ByMetaphors We Live By
T4 Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff · 1980
Open LibraryGoodreads

Metaphor as a basic mechanism of thought that shapes how people understand the world.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Matt Mullenweg, Tristan Harris