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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Software and SaaS

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Near-zero marginal cost, high gross margin and recurring revenue; the dominant destination for growth capital since the 1990s.

Books 18Experts 5Recommenders 63

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  1. The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz, 2014
  2. Crossing the ChasmGeoffrey A. Moore, 1991
  3. The Mythical Man-MonthFrederick P. Brooks Jr., 1975
The Mythical Man-MonthThe Mythical Man-Month
T1 The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · 1975
Open LibraryGoodreads

Lessons from IBM's OS/360: why adding people to a late software project slows it.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham, Andrew Chen and 3 others

HackersHackers
T1 Hackers
Steven Levy · 1984
Open LibraryGoodreads

Three generations of hackers, from MIT's AI Lab to the Homebrew club and game makers.

Recommended by: Austen Allred, Ev Williams, Marc Andreessen and 3 others

Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
T1 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

MIT's introductory computer science text, taught through Lisp and Scheme.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Paul Graham, Bret Victor and 1 other

Crossing the ChasmCrossing the Chasm
T1 Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why tech products stall between early adopters and the mainstream, and how to cross.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 13 others

Behind the CloudBehind the Cloud
T2 Behind the Cloud
Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Salesforce was built, set out as 111 plays on marketing, sales and growth.

Recommended by: Aaron Levie, David Cancel, David Sacks and 3 others

The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsThe Hard Thing About Hard Things
T2 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'

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

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 34 others

Show-Stopper!Show-Stopper!
T3 Show-Stopper!
G. Pascal Zachary · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Inside Microsoft's Windows NT team from 1988 to its 1993 release.

SoftwarSoftwar
T3 Softwar
Matthew Symonds, Larry Ellison · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Authorised; Ellison's rebuttals run in footnotes throughout.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Aaron Levie

Founders at WorkFounders at Work
T3 Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Alexis Ohanian, Andrew Chen and 6 others

A Philosophy of Software DesignA Philosophy of Software Design
T3 A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
Goodreads

Software's enemy is complexity, which grows through shallow modules and shortcuts.

Clean CodeClean Code
T3 Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
Goodreads

Rules for readable code: short functions, clear names, one level of abstraction.

Co-IntelligenceCo-Intelligence
T3 Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
Goodreads

How to work alongside large language models across many kinds of knowledge work.

RefactoringRefactoring
T3 Refactoring
Martin Fowler
Goodreads

A catalogue of moves that improve existing code without changing what it does.

The Alignment ProblemThe Alignment Problem
T3 The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

The struggle to make machine learning systems do what people actually intend.

Recommended by: Sam Altman

The Coming WaveThe Coming Wave
T3 The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why AI and synthetic biology will spread fast and cheaply, and how to contain them.

“Everything is about to be changed by AI in a radical, scary way” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Newsletter

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates and 1 other

The Pragmatic ProgrammerThe Pragmatic Programmer
T3 The Pragmatic Programmer
David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
Goodreads

A programmer's craft: when code is good enough and what to automate.

The Soul of a New MachineThe Soul of a New Machine
T3 The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder · 1981
Open LibraryGoodreads

A Data General team races to design a 32-bit minicomputer in about a year.

“Must-read for anyone in a product development or a startup environment.” — Mohnish Pabrai

Source: Mohnish's Bookshelf — Books on Sales & Marketing, entry 73

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison, Brad Feld and 3 others

Working in PublicWorking in Public
T3 Working in Public
Nadia Eghbal · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

How open-source software is really made and maintained, often by a few people.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Delian Asparouhov

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