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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Niki Scevak

Partner at Blackbird; founded Startmate after moving back to Sydney in 2010, and before investing started two software companies and lived in New York.

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49 articles · 12 books they recommend

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AnthemAnthem
T4 Anthem
Ayn Rand · 1936
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams

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

The FountainheadThe Fountainhead
T4 The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand · 1943
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of an architect who will build only by his own judgment, whatever it costs.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams, Iman Gadzhi and 4 others

PrinciplesPrinciples
T2 Principles
Ray Dalio · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Decision rules from building Bridgewater: radical truth and radical transparency.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Nat Eliason, Andrew Lokenauth and 27 others

Setting the TableSetting the Table
T2 Setting the Table
Danny Meyer · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Enlightened hospitality: put employees first, then guests, community and investors.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Fred Wilson and 2 others

Done DealsDone Deals
T3 Done Deals
Udayan Gupta · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Oral history interviews with the first generation of VCs.

Zero to OneZero to One
T1 Zero to One
Peter Thiel · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Eric Weinstein and 35 others

Homo DeusHomo Deus
T3 Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Harari's concern — that humans may cede decision-making to opaque systems through preference rather than coercion — reframes the alignment problem as a cultural and political challenge, not only a technical one. Less rigorous than Bostrom or Russell, but more widely read, making it a useful lens for understanding public discourse.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Nat Eliason and 6 others

SapiensSapiens
T1 Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 37 others

Elon MuskElon Musk
T2 Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Musk's life from South Africa and PayPal to running SpaceX and Tesla at once.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Anthony Pompliano and 9 others

Poor Charlie's AlmanackPoor Charlie's Almanack
T1 Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Speeches making the case for a latticework of mental models from many fields.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 25 others

The Hero with a Thousand FacesThe Hero with a Thousand Faces
T2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell · 1949
Open LibraryGoodreads

The one pattern of the hero's journey that runs through myths across cultures.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 1 other