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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Deferred Gratification

Mental models

Trading a smaller reward now for a larger one later - the temperament every compounding model depends on. Early in life the savings rate matters more than the return rate, because a dollar unconsumed at thirty carries doublings a dollar at fifty-five never will. The research suggests structure beats willpower, so the saving should be automated rather than re-decided monthly.

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  1. The Richest Man in BabylonGeorge S. Clason, 1926
  2. The Psychology of MoneyMorgan Housel, 2020
  3. The Marshmallow TestWalter Mischel, 2014
MeditationsMeditations
T1 Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 1626
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant and 17 others

Poor Richard's AlmanackPoor Richard's Almanack
T1 Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin · 1732
Open LibraryGoodreads

An almanac of proverbs and maxims urging thrift, industry and courtesy.

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
T1 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 1791
Open LibraryGoodreads

A printer's rise in colonial America and his chart for practising thirteen virtues.

Recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 4 others

The Richest Man in BabylonThe Richest Man in Babylon
T1 The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason · 1926
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Anthony Pompliano, Sophia Amoruso

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
T2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Seven habits, from being proactive to win-win, that build personal effectiveness.

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Jim Collins and 10 others

Your Money or Your LifeYour Money or Your Life
T2 Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

A nine-step programme that counts spending in hours of life energy.

Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Graham Stephan and 1 other

Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeBenjamin Franklin: An American Life
T2 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Franklin's life as printer, scientist, diplomat and founder.

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Alfred Lin, Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 7 others

The Marshmallow TestThe Marshmallow Test
T2 The Marshmallow Test
Walter Mischel · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Psychology of MoneyThe Psychology of Money
T2 The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal and 10 others

MasteryMastery
T3 Mastery
George Leonard · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

The plateau and long practice; mastery as a delayed reward

Recommended by: Ev Williams, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 1 other

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

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Austen Allred and 7 others

The American Frugal HousewifeThe American Frugal Housewife
T4 The American Frugal Housewife
Lydia Maria Child · 1829
Open LibraryGoodreads

An 1829 household economy manual that treats thrift as a financial system.

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

The Quest of the Simple LifeThe Quest of the Simple Life
T4 The Quest of the Simple Life
William J. Dawson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Edwardian essay on living deliberately below your means

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

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