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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Demography, migration and generations

Society and culture

Holds books on population growth and decline, ageing, immigration and generational cycles, from The Population Bomb to Empty Planet and The Fourth Turning.

Books 28Recommenders 17

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  1. The Coming Generational StormLaurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns, 2004
  2. The 100-Year LifeLynda Gratton, Andrew Scott, 2016
  3. Empty PlanetDarrell Bricker, John Ibbitson, 2019
  4. The Great Demographic ReversalCharles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan, 2020
  5. FewerBen J. Wattenberg, 2004
The Coming Generational StormThe Coming Generational Storm
T2 The Coming Generational Storm
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns · 2004
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US fiscal promises far exceed future revenue, which official debt figures hide.

The 100-Year LifeThe 100-Year Life
T2 The 100-Year Life
Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

What longer lives do to savings, work and the products people buy.

Empty PlanetEmpty Planet
T2 Empty Planet
Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

The costs and benefits of a shrinking world population.

The Great Demographic ReversalThe Great Demographic Reversal
T2 The Great Demographic Reversal
Charles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Disinflation came from a one-time surge in workers; ageing will reverse it.

FewerFewer
T3 Fewer
Ben J. Wattenberg · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Falling birth rates worldwide, and countries from Italy to Japan starting to shrink.

Shock of Gray
T3 Shock of Gray
Ted C. Fishman · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Ageing as a global economic and political force, country by country.

What to Expect When No One's ExpectingWhat to Expect When No One's Expecting
T3 What to Expect When No One's Expecting
Jonathan V. Last · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fertility decline argued as an economic rather than a moral problem.

The Longevity EconomyThe Longevity Economy
T3 The Longevity Economy
Joseph F. Coughlin · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

What older consumers want and buy, against the stereotypes firms design for.

Extra TimeExtra Time
T3 Extra Time
Camilla Cavendish · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

How a dozen countries respond as people over 65 come to outnumber small children.

The Human TideThe Human Tide
T3 The Human Tide
Paul Morland · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

How population change and migration made and unmade nations over two centuries.

8 Billion and Counting8 Billion and Counting
T3 8 Billion and Counting
Jennifer D. Sciubba · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

A political demographer on what the numbers do and do not determine.

The Population BombThe Population Bomb
T4 The Population Bomb
Paul R. Ehrlich · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Paul Graham

GenerationsGenerations
T4 Generations
William Strauss, Neil Howe · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Tony Robbins

The Fourth Turning: An American ProphecyThe Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy
T4 The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy
William Strauss, Neil Howe · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

American history as a repeating cycle of four generational turnings, each 20 years.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Mohnish Pabrai and 3 others

The Greatest GenerationThe Greatest Generation
T4 The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Beyond Smoke and MirrorsBeyond Smoke and Mirrors
T4 Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
Douglas S. Massey · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the CentenIf I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians
T4 If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians
Neenah Ellis · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Immigrants: Your Country Needs ThemImmigrants: Your Country Needs Them
T4 Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Philippe Legrain · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: ImmReflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West
T4 Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West
Christopher Caldwell · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How mass immigration and Islam changed Europe without forming a melting pot.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Coming Population CrashThe Coming Population Crash
T4 The Coming Population Crash
Fred Pearce · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Stewart Brand

The Defining DecadeThe Defining Decade
T4 The Defining Decade
Meg Jay · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why the twenties matter, against the hype that trivialises that decade of life.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, John Doerr

The Strange Death of EuropeThe Strange Death of Europe
T4 The Strange Death of Europe
Douglas Murray · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Antonio García Martínez, Marc Andreessen

BolderBolder
T4 Bolder
Carl Honoré · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Arianna Huffington

Plagues and the Paradox of ProgressPlagues and the Paradox of Progress
T4 Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
Thomas J. Bollyky · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg

The Line Becomes a RiverThe Line Becomes a River
T4 The Line Becomes a River
Francisco Cantú · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Vinod Khosla

The Guarded GateThe Guarded Gate
T4 The Guarded Gate
Daniel Okrent · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

The RemixThe Remix
T4 The Remix
Lindsey Pollak · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Arianna Huffington

The End of the World Is Just the BeginningThe End of the World Is Just the Beginning
T4 The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Peter Zeihan · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why the US-guarded trading order is ending, and what that means for supply chains.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

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