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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Agriculture and Food

Industries

Commodity inputs, branded outputs and enormous trading intermediaries; margin sits where information and logistics concentrate.

Books 18Experts 1Recommenders 11

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  1. The Omnivore's DilemmaMichael Pollan, 2006
  2. Fast Food NationEric Schlosser, 2001
  3. Merchants of GrainDan Morgan, 1979
The JungleThe Jungle
T1 The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · 1906
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a Lithuanian immigrant family ruined in Chicago's meatpacking yards.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Benedict Evans

Merchants of GrainMerchants of Grain
T1 Merchants of Grain
Dan Morgan · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

The family-owned firms, from Cargill to Bunge, that controlled the world grain trade.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Fast Food NationFast Food Nation
T1 Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

How fast food reshaped farming, meatpacking, food science and low-wage work.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Kevin Rose, Richard Branson

The Omnivore's DilemmaThe Omnivore's Dilemma
T1 The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Four meals traced to their sources, from fast food and organic to hunted and grown.

The Fish That Ate the WhaleThe Fish That Ate the Whale
T2 The Fish That Ate the Whale
Rich Cohen · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Samuel Zemurray rose from selling ripe bananas to taking over United Fruit.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, Andrew Wilkinson and 3 others

Salt Sugar FatSalt Sugar Fat
T2 Salt Sugar Fat
Michael Moss · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

How processed-food makers engineer salt, sugar and fat to make people eat more.

Grinding It OutGrinding It Out
T3 Grinding It Out
Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson · 1977
Open LibraryGoodreads

A milkshake-machine salesman finds the McDonald brothers and builds the franchise.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970
T3 Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970
Marco Palacios · 1980
Open LibraryGoodreads

Economic history of the crop, the growers' federation and the export institutions built around it.

Cocoa and Chaos in GhanaCocoa and Chaos in Ghana
T3 Cocoa and Chaos in Ghana
Gwendolyn Mikell · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

How marketing-board pricing destroyed the country's main export industry.

Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin AmericaCoffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
T3 Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, Mario Samper Kutschbach · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Comparative coffee political economy; sets Colombia's growers' federation in context.

Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America
T4 Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America
Ken Wells · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

See's Famous Old Time Candies: A Sweet StorySee's Famous Old Time Candies: A Sweet Story
T4 See's Famous Old Time Candies: A Sweet Story
Margaret Moos Pick · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Bitter ChocolateBitter Chocolate
T3 Bitter Chocolate
Carol Off · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Cocoa supply chain and child labour behind confectionery majors.

Sweet and Low: A Family StorySweet and Low: A Family Story
T4 Sweet and Low: A Family Story
Rich Cohen · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

BottlemaniaBottlemania
T4 Bottlemania
Elizabeth Royte · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Local water-extraction fights, several of them with Nestle Waters.

Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks frCoca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea
T4 Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea
Robert J. Foster · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Academic study of the bottling and distribution system abroad.

Chocolate NationsChocolate Nations
T4 Chocolate Nations
Orla Ryan · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

West African cocoa economics for a buyer of the crop.

The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, RoThe Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes
T4 The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes
James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, Tara Duggan · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to choose, brew and enjoy artisan coffee at home, with 40 recipes.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

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