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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Time Arbitrage

Mental models

Most capital is graded quarterly, so prices overweight the next earnings report and underweight the next decade. An investor who can genuinely hold for years buys that neglect at a discount. The edge is structural rather than intellectual: it exists only if funding, clients and temperament all permit sitting still.

Books 5Experts 4Recommenders 19Resources 4

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  1. The Psychology of MoneyMorgan Housel, 2020
  2. The Most Important ThingHoward Marks, 2011
  3. Stocks for the Long RunJeremy J. Siegel, 1994
Stocks for the Long RunStocks for the Long Run
T1 Stocks for the Long Run
Jeremy J. Siegel · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

US returns since 1802 show stocks beat bonds and cash over every long period.

“his book "Stocks for the Long Run" contributed greatly to the bull market's middle years” — Howard Marks

Source: Oaktree memo 'Irrational Exuberance'

Recommended by: Howard Marks

The Most Important ThingThe Most Important Thing
T1 The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Second-level thinking, risk and market cycles, drawn from Oaktree's client memos.

Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 3 others

The Clash of the CulturesThe Clash of the Cultures
T2 The Clash of the Cultures
John C. Bogle · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

How speculation displaced long-term investment in markets, shown in turnover data.

“I also recommend The Clash of the Cultures by Jack Bogle” — Warren Buffett

Source: 2012 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter, p. 21

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Warren Buffett and 1 other

The Psychology of MoneyThe Psychology of Money
T2 The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Twenty short essays on why behaviour matters more than knowledge with money.

“…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, Ali Abdaal and 10 others

Common Stocks as Long Term InvestmentsCommon Stocks as Long Term Investments
T3 Common Stocks as Long Term Investments
Edgar Lawrence Smith · 1924
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Warren Buffett

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