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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Stewart Butterfield

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Canadian billionaire who co-founded the photo-sharing site Flickr and the team-messaging application Slack.

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Stewart Butterfield on Medium

2 articles · 7 books they recommend · 28 appearances

Recommends 7Writing 2Appearances 28Profiles 3Links 2
Leadership and Self-DeceptionLeadership and Self-Deception
T4 Leadership and Self-Deception
The Arbinger Institute · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Girish Mathrubootham and 1 other

The Making of a ManagerThe Making of a Manager
T4 The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

What a new manager needs to know about leading people, meetings, hiring and feedback.

Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Jake Knapp

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking WheCrucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
T3 Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
Goodreads

Patterson et al. address high-stakes conversations where opinions differ and emotions run hot — conditions that describe most negotiations worth having. The STATE model and the concept of the pool of shared meaning give practitioners concrete tools rather than abstract principles.

Play AnythingPlay Anything
T4 Play Anything
Ian Bogost
Goodreads

Games please us because of their limits, and how to find play in the ordinary.

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of AbraTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
T2 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Lincoln brought his three rivals for the 1860 nomination into his cabinet.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Jamie Dimon

How to Change Your MindHow to Change Your Mind
T4 How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

The history and revival of psychedelic research, and the author's own trips.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Bryan Johnson, James Cameron and 6 others

The Courage to Be DislikedThe Courage to Be Disliked
T4 The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Alfred Adler's psychology taught through five nights of dialogue.

Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Andrew Wilkinson, Tim Ferriss and 10 others