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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Terrance McArthur

Runs McArthur Capital from Naples, Florida, investing in securities, real estate, small businesses and ventures; has invested in Gumroad, Italic and Varda and sits on the board of the non-profit Community Crew.

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Walter Isaacson · 2003

Franklin's life as printer, scientist, diplomat and founder.

Roger Lowenstein · 1995

Buffett's life from Omaha and Graham's class to building Berkshire Hathaway.

Tren Griffin · 2015

Synthesis of his mental-models framework, not a life.

Walter Isaacson · 2023

Two years shadowing Musk, across SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and the buying of Twitter.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Sam Walton · 1900

How Walmart grew from one Arkansas store by cutting costs and prices.

Phil Knight · 2014

How a running-shoe importer became Nike, surviving one cash crisis after another.

Alice Schroeder · 2008

Buffett's life to 2008, written with full access to his files and his friends.

Paul Kalanithi · 2016

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 asks what makes life worth living.

Peter Lynch · 1989

The amateur's edge argument from the Magellan record.

Charlie Munger · 2005

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

Mohnish Pabrai · 2007

The explicit argument for cloning rather than originating ideas.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Guy Spier

Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner · 2015

The Good Judgment Project; the practices that measurably improve forecasts.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison and 8 others

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005

Rare, unforeseen, high-impact events drive history, explained only after the fact.

Andy Weir · 2021

A novel of an amnesiac astronaut sent to stop a microbe that is dimming the sun.

James Clear · 2016

Build habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.

Napoleon Hill · 1937

Thirteen principles of getting rich, claimed to come from studying 500 wealthy men.

Vaclav Smil · 2020

Seventy-one short pieces that correct common impressions with plain arithmetic.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg

Walter Isaacson · 2001

Jennifer Doudna, co-developer of CRISPR gene editing, and what followed it.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates

Richard P. Feynman · 1984

A physicist's stories, from fixing radios as a boy to Los Alamos and beyond.

Frank Slootman · 2021

How leaders drive hypergrowth by raising standards, focus and urgency.

Also recommended by: Jason Calacanis

Nick Bilton · 2013

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

Also recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Casey Neistat, Ron Conway

Ryan Peterson

A children's story of the small digger that worked to free the stuck ship Ever Given.

Also recommended by: Keith Wasserman

Morgan Housel · 2020

Twenty short essays on why behaviour matters more than knowledge with money.

Matthew Walker · 2017

How lack of sleep damages nearly every system in the body, and what sleep does.

David Sinclair · 2019

The case that ageing is a disease that can be treated, and the theory behind it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012

Incerto volume 4

Viktor E. Frankl · 1968

Life in Nazi concentration camps, and logotherapy: finding meaning to survive.