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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Complexity and systems science

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Books on chaos, networks, emergence, scaling, causality and the Santa Fe Institute view of economies as complex systems.

Books 31Experts 3Recommenders 26

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  1. ScaleGeoffrey West, 2017
  2. The Book of WhyJudea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie, 2018
  3. CyberneticsNorbert Wiener, 1948
  4. Order Out of ChaosIlya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers, 1984
  5. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and ChaosM. Mitchell Waldrop, 1992
ScaleScale
T1 Scale
Geoffrey West · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why organisms, cities and companies follow power laws set by their supply networks.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Bill Miller, Marc Benioff and 2 others

The Book of WhyThe Book of Why
T1 The Book of Why
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the science of cause and effect moved past 'correlation is not causation'.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Keith Rabois, Naval Ravikant

CyberneticsCybernetics
T2 Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener · 1948
Open LibraryGoodreads

Control and communication in animals and machines run on the same principles.

Order Out of ChaosOrder Out of Chaos
T2 Order Out of Chaos
Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers · 1984
Open LibraryGoodreads
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the EdgeComplexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
T2 Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

The founding of the Santa Fe Institute and the people who built complexity science.

Recommended by: Bill Gurley, Jamie Dimon, Michael Mauboussin and 1 other

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in thIncreasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
T2 Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
W. Brian Arthur · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Papers showing positive feedback and lock-in govern parts of the economy.

Out of ControlOut of Control
T2 Out of Control
Kevin Kelly · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

How machines and economies grow so complex that they behave like living systems.

Recommended by: Cynthia Johnson, Ev Williams and 1 other

CausalityCausality
T2 Causality
Judea Pearl · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

A mathematical theory of causation for statistics, AI, economics and science.

The Evolution of Everything
T2 The Evolution of Everything
Matt Ridley · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Big changes in human affairs emerge from the bottom up rather than by design.

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic JamsTurtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams
T3 Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams
Mitchel Resnick · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

“The first challenge to the centralized mindset comes from a delightful book by MIT Professor Mitchel Resnick, "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams.” — Michael Mauboussin

Source: The Invisible Lead Steer: New Answers to Old Questions About the Stock Market (CS First Boston)

Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin

Critical Phenomena in Natural SciencesCritical Phenomena in Natural Sciences
T3 Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences
Didier Sornette · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Power laws, scaling and critical points across physical and social systems

Recommended by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes HappenUbiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
T3 Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
Mark Buchanan · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads
Deep SimplicityDeep Simplicity
T3 Deep Simplicity
John Gribbin · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Charlie Munger

Drift into FailureDrift into Failure
T3 Drift into Failure
Sidney Dekker · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How complex systems, from subprime lending to space shuttles, drift into failure.

Complexity and the Economy
T3 Complexity and the Economy
W. Brian Arthur · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads
ChaosChaos
T4 Chaos
James Gleick · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Stewart Brand

More Heat Than LightMore Heat Than Light
T4 More Heat Than Light
Philip Mirowski · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

How economics copied the maths of 19th-century physics, and what that cost it.

“there's a wonderful book called More Heat Than Light by a professor named Phil Mirowski, which documents how economists mapped over equations from Newtonian physics” — Michael Mauboussin

Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #659 — official transcript

Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin, Eric Weinstein

ComplexityComplexity
T4 Complexity
Roger Lewin · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Vlad Tenev

Fuzzy ThinkingFuzzy Thinking
T4 Fuzzy Thinking
Bart Kosko · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ev Williams

At Home in the UniverseAt Home in the Universe
T4 At Home in the Universe
Stuart Kauffman · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

The Nature of Mathematical ModelingThe Nature of Mathematical Modeling
T4 The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
Neil Gershenfeld · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Techniques for mathematical modelling, aimed at simple, efficient computer code.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bret Victor

Creation: Life and How to Make ItCreation: Life and How to Make It
T4 Creation: Life and How to Make It
Steve Grand · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

How a game designer built artificial life from simple rules of biology.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jeff Bezos

EmergenceEmergence
T4 Emergence
Steven Johnson · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ev Williams

A New Kind of ScienceA New Kind of Science
T4 A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Steve Jurvetson

Linked: How Everything Is Connected to EveryLinked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
T4 Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Origin of WealthThe Origin of Wealth
T4 The Origin of Wealth
Eric D. Beinhocker · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

The economy as a complex evolving system rather than one in equilibrium.

Recommended by: Ryan Peterson

Bak's Sand Pile: Strategies for a CatastrophBak's Sand Pile: Strategies for a Catastrophic World
T4 Bak's Sand Pile: Strategies for a Catastrophic World
Ted G. Lewis · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The InformationThe Information
T4 The Information
James Gleick · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg and 2 others

Why Information GrowsWhy Information Grows
T4 Why Information Grows
Cesar Hidalgo · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at theAdaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
T4 Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
Andrew W. Lo · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads
Thermoinfo Complexity
T4 Thermoinfo Complexity
Behzad Mohit
Goodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

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