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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Tom Bilyeu

Co-founded Quest Nutrition, a startup valued at over $1 billion, and co-founded and hosts Impact Theory.

Impact TheoryQuest Nutrition

Tom Bilyeu on Medium

10 articles · 28 books they recommend

Recommends 28Writing 10
More 7
Daring GreatlyDaring Greatly
T4 Daring Greatly
Brene Brown · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Research on shame and vulnerability, and why vulnerability comes before connection.

Also recommended by: Tony Hsieh, Brené Brown, Chase Jarvis and 3 others

GritGrit
T4 Grit
Angela Duckworth · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Albert Wenger, Anu Hariharan, Brené Brown and 2 others

IncognitoIncognito
T4 Incognito
David Eagleman · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Ray Dalio

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

MindsetMindset
T2 Mindset
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

Predictably IrrationalPredictably Irrational
T2 Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Experiments showing that people depart from rational choice in repeatable ways.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alfred Lin, Anna Cheng and 5 others

Eleven RingsEleven Rings
T4 Eleven Rings
Phil Jackson · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
Extreme OwnershipExtreme Ownership
T3 Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink · 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

Leaders Eat LastLeaders Eat Last
T3 Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek · 1900
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sinek's second major book applies neuroscience — oxytocin, cortisol, dopamine — to explain why some work environments feel safe and others don't, and how leaders establish the Circle of Safety that determines whether teams will take the risks that produce performance. More substantive than Start With Why.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Julie Stevanja, Vlad Magdalin

Sometimes You Win‑‑Sometimes You LearnSometimes You Win‑‑Sometimes You Learn
T4 Sometimes You Win‑‑Sometimes You Learn
John Maxwell · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
Start with WhyStart with Why
T3 Start with Why
Simon Sinek · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sinek's Golden Circle (Why/How/What) is less empirically grounded than the rest of this list, but its core observation is accurate: people don't follow what you do, they follow why you do it. Useful for understanding how leaders communicate identity externally and why some inspire loyalty while others just manage compliance.

Also recommended by: Richard Branson, Tony Hsieh, Alfred Lin and 3 others

BoldBold
T4 Bold
Peter Diamandis · 1905
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to use prize competitions, crowdfunding and communities to go big.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, James Altucher

Disrupt You!Disrupt You!
T4 Disrupt You!
Jay Samit · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to anticipate change and create your own opportunities in business.

The E-Myth RevisitedThe E-Myth Revisited
T2 The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Small firms fail when technicians run them; build systems that run the business.

Also recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Ali Abdaal, Andrew Wilkinson and 5 others

Zero to OneZero to One
T1 Zero to One
Peter Thiel · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Eric Weinstein and 35 others

LinchpinLinchpin
T2 Linchpin
Seth Godin · 1960
Open LibraryGoodreads

Valuable work now needs people who do what can't be written into a job description.

Also recommended by: Ann Handley, Michael Batko, Tony Hsieh and 1 other

PrinciplesPrinciples
T2 Principles
Ray Dalio · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Decision rules from building Bridgewater: radical truth and radical transparency.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Nat Eliason, Andrew Lokenauth and 27 others

Phantoms in the BrainPhantoms in the Brain
T4 Phantoms in the Brain
V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

What patients with odd neurological disorders reveal about the brain and the self.

The Brain That Changes ItselfThe Brain That Changes Itself
T4 The Brain That Changes Itself
Norman Doidge · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads
AntifragileAntifragile
T3 Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Incerto volume 4

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 24 others

The Obstacle Is the WayThe Obstacle Is the Way
T3 The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday, James Altucher, Jordan Hughes and 2 others

MasteryMastery
T2 Mastery
Robert Greene · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

How masters from Leonardo to Faraday found a life's task and served apprenticeships.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, Anthony Pompliano and 4 others

Think and Grow RichThink and Grow Rich
T4 Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill · 1937
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Also recommended by: Jim Clayton, Mohnish Pabrai and 7 others

OnwardOnward
T3 Onward
Howard Schultz · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account: Schultz's 2008 return and the store closures.

Also recommended by: Ron Conway

Can't Hurt MeCan't Hurt Me
T4 Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

From abused child and 300-pound exterminator to Navy SEAL, and how to get tough.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alex and Books, Ali Abdaal and 6 others

The Power of MythThe Power of Myth
T3 The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Campbell on the recurring stories cultures tell themselves

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Nat Eliason, David Perell and 2 others

The Moral AnimalThe Moral Animal
T2 The Moral Animal
Robert Wright · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Evolutionary psychology explained through Darwin's own life and behaviour.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ryan Holiday, Morgan Housel and 1 other

RelentlessRelentless
T4 Relentless
Shari Lesser Wenk, Tim Grover · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Anthony Pompliano, David Cancel and 1 other