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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Wine and luxury goods

Assets

Collectible wine and luxury brands are studied for the same reason: scarcity is manufactured, and the margin lives in the story.

Books 12Recommenders 3

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  1. The Billionaire's VinegarBenjamin Wallace, 2008
  2. DeluxeDana Thomas, 2007
  3. The Emperor of WineElin McCoy, 2005
The House of GucciThe House of Gucci
T2 The House of Gucci
Sara Gay Forden · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Gucci from a Florence leather shop through family collapse to its Tom Ford revival.

Judgment of ParisJudgment of Paris
T2 Judgment of Paris
George M. Taber · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1976 tasting of top French wines against new California ones, and its effects.

DeluxeDeluxe
T2 Deluxe
Dana Thomas · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

How family luxury houses became conglomerates selling to the mass affluent.

The Billionaire's VinegarThe Billionaire's Vinegar
T2 The Billionaire's Vinegar
Benjamin Wallace · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

The record-priced 1787 Lafite said to be Jefferson's, and doubts about its origin.

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

The Emperor of WineThe Emperor of Wine
T3 The Emperor of Wine
Elin McCoy · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the critic Robert Parker's palate came to set wine styles and prices worldwide.

The Luxury StrategyThe Luxury Strategy
T3 The Luxury Strategy
Jean-Noel Kapferer, Vincent Bastien · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

The standard analytical text on the LVMH-style brand model.

In Vino DuplicitasIn Vino Duplicitas
T3 In Vino Duplicitas
Peter Hellman · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Rudy Kurniawan faked rare Burgundy wines, and how he was caught.

Wine WarsWine Wars
T4 Wine Wars
Mike Veseth · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Wine economist on globalization, terroir and commodity pressure.

Shadows in the VineyardShadows in the Vineyard
T4 Shadows in the Vineyard
Maximillian Potter · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Extortion at Domaine de la Romanee-Conti.

The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becom
T4 The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All
Richard Betts
Goodreads

Recommended by: Chris Sacca

The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Bec
T4 The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert
Richard Betts
Goodreads

Scratch-and-sniff scents like butter and grass, and the wines in which they show up.

Recommended by: Chris Sacca

Whisky Classified: Choosing Single Malts by Whisky Classified: Choosing Single Malts by Flavour
T4 Whisky Classified: Choosing Single Malts by Flavour
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

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