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  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.
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  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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Munger's Psychology of Human Misjudgment

Munger's assembled list of about twenty-five standard causes of human error - incentive bias, consistency, social proof, deprival superreaction, authority and the rest - together with the observation that they compound when several fire at once. He treats it as a checklist for the mind, run before a decision rather than after a loss. The claim is that avoiding standard stupidity beats pursuing brilliance.

Start here

  1. Influence: The Psychology of PersuasionRobert B. Cialdini, 1984
  2. Poor Charlie's AlmanackCharles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, 2005
  3. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to MungerPeter Bevelin, 2003
Michel de Montaigne · 1958

Essays on self-knowledge and how unreliable one's own judgement is.

Recommended by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Robert B. Cialdini · 1984

Six principles of compliance, from reciprocity to scarcity, and how sellers use them.

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

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 29 others

Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman · 2005

Speeches making the case for a latticework of mental models from many fields.

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

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 26 others

Daniel Kahneman · 2011

Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.

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

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charles de Vaulx and 32 others

Robert M. Sapolsky · 2017

Explains an action by tracing its causes back from neurons to hormones to evolution.

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

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Bryan Johnson and 5 others

Peter Bevelin · 2003

Builds out Munger's latticework idea from primary sources.

“…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 and 8 others

James Montier · 2010

Practical countermeasures rather than a catalogue of biases.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Robert G. Hagstrom · 2013

What physics, biology, psychology and other fields teach about investing.

“here's a book I read, Robert Hagstrom, who has written a lot of books about Buffett” — Thomas Gayner

Source: Masters in Business transcript: Thomas S. Gayner, Markel Corp

Recommended by: Morgan Housel, Thomas Gayner

Tren Griffin · 2015

Synthesis of his mental-models framework, not a life.

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

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran and 7 others

Janet Lowe · 2000

The only full biography; written with Munger's cooperation.

“The two I'd recommend that I thoroughly enjoyed are Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe” — Christopher Bloomstran

Source: Semper Augustus 2023 Letter to Clients, 'Worldly Wisdom', p. 81

Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai

Robert G. Hagstrom · 2000

Mental models from physics, biology and psychology, applied to investing.

“I'd recommend reading Robert Hagstrom's outstanding book, Latticework.” — Mohnish Pabrai

Source: Pabrai recommending Hagstrom's book on mental models

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Kevin Dutton · 2012

Traits of psychopathy and where they are rewarded in business

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

Peter Bevelin · 2013

Bevelin distilling observation and inference habits from Sherlock Holmes

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