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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Space Economy

Secular themes

Launch costs fell by an order of magnitude and a small investable sector appeared. The book literature is almost entirely narrative history of SpaceX and its rivals; the market sizing lives in bank and Bryce Tech reports.

Books 9Recommenders 1

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  1. When the Heavens Went on SaleAshlee Vance, 2023
  2. LiftoffEric Berger, 2021
  3. ReentryEric Berger, 2024
When the Heavens Went on SaleWhen the Heavens Went on Sale
T2 When the Heavens Went on Sale
Ashlee Vance · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Four companies, from Planet Labs to Rocket Lab, racing to build cheap satellites.

ReentryReentry
T2 Reentry
Eric Berger · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

SpaceX from 2008 through Falcon 9, the Dragon capsule and reusable boosters.

Ignition!Ignition!
T3 Ignition!
John Drury Clark · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider history of liquid rocket propellant development

Recommended by: Elon Musk

How to Make a SpaceshipHow to Make a Spaceship
T3 How to Make a Spaceship
Julian Guthrie · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Ansari X Prize and the start of commercial human spaceflight.

Rocket BillionairesRocket Billionaires
T3 Rocket Billionaires
Tim Fernholz · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

The commercial-space policy fight that let SpaceX in.

The Space BaronsThe Space Barons
T3 The Space Barons
Christian Davenport · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

SpaceX against Blue Origin and the legacy contractors.

LiftoffLiftoff
T3 Liftoff
Eric Berger · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

SpaceX's first six years, when it nearly failed four times before Falcon 1 flew.

Escaping GravityEscaping Gravity
T3 Escaping Gravity
Lori Garver · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

NASA insider on the policy fight that funded commercial crew.

Space Is Open for BusinessSpace Is Open for Business
T4 Space Is Open for Business
Robert C. Jacobson · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

One of the few attempts at a survey of the commercial sector.

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