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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Ron Conway

American venture capitalist, 'super angel' and philanthropist.

SV Angel

14 books they recommend · 10 appearances

Recommends 14Appearances 10Profiles 3
More 4
Founders at WorkFounders at Work
T3 Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Alexis Ohanian, Andrew Chen and 5 others

Talking to HumansTalking to Humans
T4 Talking to Humans
Giff Constable · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Four Steps to the EpiphanyThe Four Steps to the Epiphany
T4 The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Customer development: how startups find customers before building the full product.

Also recommended by: Marc Andreessen, Andrew Chen, Brad Feld and 1 other

Product Design for the WebProduct Design for the Web
T4 Product Design for the Web
Randy J. Hunt · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Art SpiritThe Art Spirit
T4 The Art Spirit
Robert Henri · 1930
Open LibraryGoodreads

A painting teacher's philosophical and practical notes on an approach to art.

Also recommended by: Jack Dorsey

Hatching TwitterHatching Twitter
T1 Hatching Twitter
Nick Bilton · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

The story of how Twitter was founded and of the founders who built it.

Also recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Casey Neistat and 1 other

The Idea FactoryThe Idea Factory
T4 The Idea Factory
Jon Gertner · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Bell Labs turned research into the transistor, the laser and information theory.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Mark Zuckerberg and 1 other

Gates of FireGates of Fire
T4 Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Chris Fussell

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, MHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
T4 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: David Cancel, Sam Altman

OnwardOnward
T3 Onward
Howard Schultz · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account: Schultz's 2008 return and the store closures.

Also recommended by: Tom Bilyeu

High Output ManagementHigh Output Management
T1 High Output Management
Andrew Grove · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 23 others

The Score Takes Care of ItselfThe Score Takes Care of Itself
T2 The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How a coach took the 49ers from 2 and 14 to three Super Bowls with set standards.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, David Cancel and 7 others

Thinking, Fast and SlowThinking, Fast and Slow
T3 Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charles de Vaulx and 31 others

Crossing the ChasmCrossing the Chasm
T2 Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why tech products stall between early adopters and the mainstream, and how to cross.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 12 others