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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Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

Industries

Patent cliffs, binary trial outcomes and regulatory capture make this the most information-asymmetric of the large sectors.

Books 11Recommenders 13

Start here

  1. Empire of PainPatrick Radden Keefe, 2021
  2. The Billion-Dollar MoleculeBarry Werth, 1994
  3. Bad PharmaBen Goldacre, 2012
The Double HelixThe Double Helix
T1 The Double Helix
James D. Watson · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

A first-hand account of the race against Linus Pauling to find DNA's structure.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Paul Graham, Peter Attia

The Billion-Dollar MoleculeThe Billion-Dollar Molecule
T1 The Billion-Dollar Molecule
Barry Werth · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Vertex from the inside; the classic account of drug discovery economics.

Recommended by: Laura Deming

The Emperor of All MaladiesThe Emperor of All Maladies
T1 The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

A biography of cancer, by a physician and oncologist.

Recommended by: Andrew Chen, Bill Gates, Laura R Walker and 1 other

The GeneThe Gene
T1 The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

The gene from Mendel and Darwin to genome editing, beside a family's mental illness.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Daniel Petre, James Cameron and 1 other

Empire of PainEmpire of Pain
T1 Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Three generations of the Sackler family and how Purdue Pharma sold OxyContin.

The Eighth Day of CreationThe Eighth Day of Creation
T2 The Eighth Day of Creation
Horace Freeland Judson · 1969
Open LibraryGoodreads

The history of molecular biology from the 1930s to the 1970s, told by its makers.

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Bad PharmaBad Pharma
T2 Bad Pharma
Ben Goldacre · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

How drug companies distort medical evidence, starting with unpublished trials.

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

Bottle of LiesBottle of Lies
T2 Bottle of Lies
Katherine Eban · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fraud in data and manufacturing at offshore generic-drug plants.

The Truth About the Drug CompaniesThe Truth About the Drug Companies
T3 The Truth About the Drug Companies
Marcia Angell · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

How drug companies turned from discovering drugs to marketing them.

A Life DecodedA Life Decoded
T3 A Life Decoded
J. Craig Venter · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account of the private race to sequence the human genome

Recommended by: Sam Altman

Genentech: The Beginnings of BiotechGenentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
T3 Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
Sally Smith Hughes · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Laura Deming, Patrick Collison

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