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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Retail and big-box

Business models

Large-format retail: the model is turns, buying power and the cost of occupancy, not merchandising taste.

Books 8Experts 2Recommenders 14

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  1. Sam Walton: Made in AmericaSam Walton, John Huey, 1992
  2. The Everything StoreBrad Stone, 2013
  3. The Wal-Mart EffectCharles Fishman, 2006
Sam Walton: Made in AmericaSam Walton: Made in America
T1 Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton, John Huey · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Walmart grew from one Arkansas store by cutting costs and prices.

Recommended by: David Cancel, Mohnish Pabrai, Iman Gadzhi and 3 others

The Everything StoreThe Everything Store
T1 The Everything Store
Brad Stone · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Amazon's first two decades, from an online bookshop to selling nearly everything.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 7 others

Built from ScratchBuilt from Scratch
T2 Built from Scratch
Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

How two fired executives built Home Depot into a national chain.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, David Cancel, Frank Blake and 1 other

Why We BuyWhy We Buy
T2 Why We Buy
Paco Underhill · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Retail conversion economics observed on the shop floor.

The Wal-Mart EffectThe Wal-Mart Effect
T2 The Wal-Mart Effect
Charles Fishman · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

What Wal-Mart's scale does to its suppliers, its towns and prices everywhere.

The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small BusThe Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
T2 The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
Marc Levinson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How A&P became the world's largest retailer and the political fight it set off.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

In Sam We TrustIn Sam We Trust
T3 In Sam We Trust
Bob Ortega · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

First major critical history by a WSJ Walmart reporter.

The New Rules of RetailThe New Rules of Retail
T3 The New Rules of Retail
Robin Lewis, Michael Dart · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Preemptive distribution and control of the value chain.

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