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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Packy McCormick

Writes Not Boring, a weekly newsletter of in-depth analyses of technology and startups sent to over 250,000 subscribers; its fund, Not Boring Capital, backs companies such as Ramp and Base Power Company.

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Ready Player OneReady Player One
T4 Ready Player One
Ernest Cline · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a teenager hunting 1980s-themed puzzles in a virtual world for a fortune.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Astro Teller and 6 others

Red RisingRed Rising
T4 Red Rising
Pierce Brown · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Sophie Bakalar

Stories of Your Life and OthersStories of Your Life and Others
T4 Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eight science-fiction stories, each working out one premise with rigour.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Tim Ferriss and 2 others

The Three-Body ProblemThe Three-Body Problem
T4 The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel in which a scientist answers an alien warning and invites first contact.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Sophie Bakalar and 8 others

The Fourth TurningThe Fourth Turning
T4 The Fourth Turning
William Strauss · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

American history as a repeating cycle of four generational turnings, each 20 years.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Mohnish Pabrai and 2 others

The Lessons of HistoryThe Lessons of History
T2 The Lessons of History
Will, Ariel Durant · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recurring patterns drawn from world history: biology, morals, religion, economics.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 11 others

Who Is Michael Ovitz?Who Is Michael Ovitz?
T2 Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Michael Ovitz · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Building Creative Artists Agency into Hollywood's top agency, then failing at Disney.

Also recommended by: Ben Horowitz, Benedict Evans and 3 others

7 Powers7 Powers
T1 7 Powers
Hamilton Helmer · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Seven sources of lasting advantage, each a benefit plus a barrier to rivals.

Also recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Brett Adcock, Daniel Ek and 5 others

LoonshotsLoonshots
T4 Loonshots
Safi Bahcall · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why organisations kill breakthrough projects, and how structure can protect them.

Also recommended by: Arianna Huffington, Bill Gates and 7 others

BlinkBlink
T4 Blink
Malcolm Gladwell · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

How snap judgments work, when to trust them and when they mislead.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams

ComplexityComplexity
T2 Complexity
M. Mitchell Waldrop · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

The founding of the Santa Fe Institute and the people who built complexity science.

Also recommended by: Bill Gurley, Jamie Dimon, Michael Mauboussin

Hillbilly ElegyHillbilly Elegy
T4 Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Jason Calacanis