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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The Rational Walk

Funds, clubs and websites

Investing website started in February 2009; its writing now goes out mainly by email through the Rational Reflections newsletter, which began as a list of links to other writers' work.

The Rational Walk

100 articles · 25 books they recommend

Recommends 25Writing 100
More 8
BuffettBuffett
T1 Buffett
Roger Lowenstein · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran and 11 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

Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci
T2 Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Leonardo's life read through his notebooks, where art and science were one pursuit.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Austen Allred, Daniel Petre and 6 others

The Power BrokerThe Power Broker
T1 The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro · 1974
Open LibraryGoodreads

How an unelected official amassed power and used it to rebuild New York.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Jim Collins and 7 others

The Ride of a LifetimeThe Ride of a Lifetime
T1 The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Running Disney and buying Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox to add creative talent.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Alexis Ohanian, Ali Abdaal and 7 others

TitanTitan
T1 Titan
Ron Chernow · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Rockefeller built Standard Oil, faced its breakup and gave his fortune away.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 11 others

InfluenceInfluence
T1 Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Six principles of compliance, from reciprocity to scarcity, and how sellers use them.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 28 others

Man's Search for Meaning
T4 Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Also recommended by: Frank Martin, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 23 others

Talking to StrangersTalking to Strangers
T4 Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Melinda Gates, Patrick Bet-David

The Undoing ProjectThe Undoing Project
T3 The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Michael Lewis's account of the Kahneman-Tversky collaboration works as intellectual biography and as a second path through the research for readers who find academic writing slow. The friendship and its eventual fracture clarifies how two very different minds produced work that neither could have done alone.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai, Ray Dalio and 5 others

The Big ShortThe Big Short
T1 The Big Short
Michael Lewis · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

The few investors who saw subprime mortgage bonds would fail, and bet against them.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai and 4 others

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal ResThe Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
T4 The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
Christopher Leonard · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Quantitative easing told through Thomas Hoenig's dissents.

Too Big to FailToo Big to Fail
T1 Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Inside the meetings of bankers and regulators during the 2008 financial crisis.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates, Max Levchin

Common Stocks and Uncommon ProfitsCommon Stocks and Uncommon Profits
T1 Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Philip A. Fisher · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Buy a few outstanding growth companies, research them by scuttlebutt, and hold.

Also recommended by: Arnold Van Den Berg, Bill Stewart and 9 others

The Intelligent InvestorThe Intelligent Investor
T1 The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham · 1949
Open LibraryGoodreads

Treat stocks as parts of businesses and buy only with a margin of safety.

Also recommended by: Benjamin Graham, Christopher Bloomstran and 26 others

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
T1 Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Fred Schwed Jr. · 1940
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why Wall Street grows rich on fees while its clients' results stay ordinary.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nick Sleep, Warren Buffett and 3 others

The Great Mental ModelsThe Great Mental Models
T3 The Great Mental Models
Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ana Fabrega, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jenny Chu and 1 other

The Rational OptimistThe Rational Optimist
T2 The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Prosperity grows as trade and specialisation let ideas meet and combine.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Frank Martin and 9 others

How to Read a BookHow to Read a Book
T4 How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler · 1940
Open LibraryGoodreads

A method for reading hard books for understanding, not just information.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 2 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

The AlchemistThe Alchemist
T4 The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Daniel Ek and 8 others

The Psychology of MoneyThe Psychology of Money
T4 The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal and 9 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

MeditationsMeditations
T1 Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 1626
Open LibraryGoodreads

A Roman emperor's private notes reminding himself to live by Stoic principles.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant and 16 others

Atomic HabitsAtomic Habits
T4 Atomic Habits
James Clear · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 20 others