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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Shipping and Logistics

Industries

Deeply cyclical, asset-heavy and near-invisible until it breaks; the physical substrate of global trade.

Books 9Experts 1Recommenders 6

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  1. The BoxMarc Levinson, 2006
  2. Ninety Percent of EverythingRose George, 2013
  3. Maritime EconomicsMartin Stopford, 1988
The Path Between the SeasThe Path Between the Seas
T1 The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough · 1977
Open LibraryGoodreads

The building of the Panama Canal, from France's failed attempt to US completion.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates

Maritime EconomicsMaritime Economics
T1 Maritime Economics
Martin Stopford · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

The economics of shipping: the market cycle, freight rates and vessel costs.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The BoxThe Box
T1 The Box
Marc Levinson · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the shipping container cut freight costs and remade global trade.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham and 1 other

A Splendid ExchangeA Splendid Exchange
T2 A Splendid Exchange
William J. Bernstein · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Long-distance trade from Mesopotamia and the spice routes to modern globalisation.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Mohnish Pabrai, Nick Szabo

Ninety Percent of EverythingNinety Percent of Everything
T2 Ninety Percent of Everything
Rose George · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Aboard a Maersk box ship; the economics of the trade Denmark dominates.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Outlaw OceanThe Outlaw Ocean
T2 The Outlaw Ocean
Ian Urbina · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Flags of convenience, crew abuse and jurisdictional voids at sea.

How the World Ran Out of EverythingHow the World Ran Out of Everything
T2 How the World Ran Out of Everything
Peter S. Goodman · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

The supply-chain breakdown of 2020 to 2022, traced through shipments and people.

The Shipping ManThe Shipping Man
T3 The Shipping Man
Matthew McCleery · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Novel, but the standard introduction to how ship finance actually works.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Arriving TodayArriving Today
T3 Arriving Today
Christopher Mims · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

One USB charger followed from a factory in Vietnam by ship and truck to a door.

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