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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Tobi Lütke

Industries

German-Canadian programmer who co-founded the Ottawa e-commerce company Shopify; worked on the core team of Ruby on Rails and races in IMSA's LMP2 class.

Shopify

Too-biased

9 articles · 18 books they recommend · 43 appearances

Recommends 18Writing 9Appearances 43Profiles 2Links 3
More 6
A Guide to the Good LifeA Guide to the Good Life
T3 A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Modern Stoicism; desire management and negative visualisation

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Austen Allred and 6 others

Antifragile: Things That Gain from DisorderAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
T3 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Incerto volume 4

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 24 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

The PrecipiceThe Precipice
T3 The Precipice
Toby Ord · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Ord, a philosopher at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, places AI risk within a broader taxonomy of existential threats and attempts probability estimates for each. His calibrated approach — acknowledging uncertainty while still arguing for prioritization — offers a useful epistemological model for evaluating AI timeline and risk claims.

Also recommended by: Vitalik Buterin

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What MotivDrive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
T2 Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Rewards work for routine tasks; creative work runs on autonomy, mastery and purpose.

Also recommended by: Michael Mauboussin, Mohnish Pabrai and 2 others

Influence: The Psychology of PersuasionInfluence: The Psychology of Persuasion
T1 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini · 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

Mindset: The New Psychology of SuccessMindset: The New Psychology of Success
T2 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

People who think ability grows with effort learn more than those who think it fixed.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 12 others

The Courage to Be DislikedThe Courage to Be Disliked
T4 The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi · 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

Extreme OwnershipExtreme Ownership
T3 Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Navy SEAL leadership doctrine adapted to running teams and firms

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alfred Lin, Austin Rief and 8 others

Radical CandorRadical Candor
T3 Radical Candor
Kim Scott · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Scott's two-axis framework — care personally, challenge directly — gives a practical vocabulary for the feedback conversations managers routinely avoid. The quadrant model (Radical Candor, Ruinous Empathy, Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity) is one of the most operationally useful tools in management writing.

Also recommended by: Aileen Lee, Brett Adcock, David Cancel and 6 others

High Output ManagementHigh Output Management
T1 High Output Management
Andrew S. 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

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen ForcCreativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
T2 Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Pixar kept a creative company working after success, and the habits it used.

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Alexis Ohanian, Allen Gannett and 10 others

The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsThe Hard Thing About Hard Things
T3 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 33 others

Snow CrashSnow Crash
T4 Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a hacker in a corporate-run America and its virtual world, the Metaverse.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant, Alexis Ohanian and 11 others

The BoxThe Box
T1 The Box
Marc Levinson · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the shipping container cut freight costs and remade global trade.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham

The Elements of StyleThe Elements of Style
T4 The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr., E. B. White · 1920
Open LibraryGoodreads

Numbered rules of English usage and composition, with examples, under 100 pages.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, Ann Handley and 2 others

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a SpecialiRange: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
T2 Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Early specialisation works only where rules are stable; elsewhere breadth wins.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Abi Tyas Tunggal, Alex Lieberman and 10 others

TalentTalent
T2 Talent
Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross
Goodreads

How to spot talent that resumes and standard interviews miss.