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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Tim O’Reilly

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Irish-American author and publisher who popularised the terms 'open source' and 'Web 2.0'.

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10 articles · 33 books they recommend · 54 appearances

Recommends 33Writing 10Appearances 54Profiles 3
More 5
Babel-17/Empire Star
T4 Babel-17/Empire Star
Samuel R. Delany
Goodreads
Can You Forgive Her?Can You Forgive Her?
T4 Can You Forgive Her?
Anthony Trollope · 1800
Open LibraryGoodreads
Charlie ChanCharlie Chan
T4 Charlie Chan
Earl Derr Biggers · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads
DuneDune
T4 Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a feudal space empire fighting over a desert planet and its spice.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Stewart Brand, Andrew Chen and 7 others

Dune MessiahDune Messiah
T4 Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert · 1969
Open LibraryGoodreads
IslandiaIslandia
T4 Islandia
Austin Tappan Wright · 1942
Open LibraryGoodreads
Night Train to LisbonNight Train to Lisbon
T4 Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

A Latin teacher roams Lisbon seeking the truth about an author he is obsessed with.

Pride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice
T4 Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, David Kadavy

Riders of the Purple SageRiders of the Purple Sage
T4 Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey · 1912
Open LibraryGoodreads
Rissa KerguelenRissa Kerguelen
T4 Rissa Kerguelen
F.M. Busby · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Collected Poems
T4 The Collected Poems
Wallace Stevens
Goodreads

Also recommended by: Caterina Fake

The Collected Poems of W.B. YeatsThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
T4 The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Essential RumiThe Essential Rumi
T4 The Essential Rumi
Jalal Al Din Rumi · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Adam Robinson, Kevin Kelly

The Kabir BookThe Kabir Book
T4 The Kabir Book
Kabir · 1977
Open LibraryGoodreads
The OdysseyThe Odyssey
T4 The Odyssey
Homer
Goodreads

The Greek epic of Odysseus's ten-year journey home from Troy to Ithaca.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, Ryan Holiday and 2 others

The WardenThe Warden
T4 The Warden
Anthony Trollope · 1809
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Way We Live NowThe Way We Live Now
T4 The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope · 1875
Open LibraryGoodreads
TrilbyTrilby
T4 Trilby
George du Maurier · 1894
Open LibraryGoodreads
When Nietzsche WeptWhen Nietzsche Wept
T4 When Nietzsche Wept
Irvin D. Yalom · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads
How Adam Smith Can Change Your LifeHow Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
T4 How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads
Information RulesInformation Rules
T1 Information Rules
Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Economics for information goods: pricing, versioning, lock-in and network effects.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Intermediate MicroeconomicsIntermediate Microeconomics
T4 Intermediate Microeconomics
Hal R. Varian · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Discovery of the MindThe Discovery of the Mind
T4 The Discovery of the Mind
Bruno Snell · 1953
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Meaning of CultureThe Meaning of Culture
T4 The Meaning of Culture
John Cowper Powys · 1929
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu
T4 The Way of Life, According to Laotzu
Witter Bynner
Goodreads
The Second Machine AgeThe Second Machine Age
T3 The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andy McAfee · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Brynjolfsson and McAfee provide the economic context: AI as a general-purpose technology that decouples productivity from employment. The alignment problem doesn't exist in a vacuum — it plays out in economies where AI is already restructuring labor markets in ways that are hard to reverse.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 3 others

The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog
T4 The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog
Ed Krol
Goodreads
The Innovator's DilemmaThe Innovator's Dilemma
T1 The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why well-run firms lose to cheaper, worse products that enter at the market's bottom.

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Aaron Levie and 26 others

Makers and TakersMakers and Takers
T4 Makers and Takers
Rana Foroohar · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads
Liar's PokerLiar's Poker
T1 Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Life on Salomon Brothers' bond trading floor in the 1980s mortgage-bond boom.

Also recommended by: Michael Burry, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 2 others

The Civil WarThe Civil War
T4 The Civil War
Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson · 1971
Open LibraryGoodreads
Loving Every Child
T4 Loving Every Child
Janusz Korczak · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
T4 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

Following Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters through the 1960s counterculture.

Also recommended by: Stewart Brand