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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Education and Learning

Schools and universities as institutions, plus the science and practice of learning, teaching, deliberate practice and language acquisition. Read by teachers, parents, policy people and self-directed learners.

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  1. MindsetCarol S. Dweck, 2006
  2. Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social ProgressBruce Greenwald, Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2014
  3. The Coddling of the American MindGreg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, 2018
  4. RangeDavid Epstein, 2019
  5. Thinking PhysicsLewis Carroll Epstein, 1979
Carol S. Dweck · 2006

People who think ability grows with effort learn more than those who think it fixed.

“One of the reasons I loved Mindset is because it's solutions-oriented.” — Bill Gates

Source: Gates Notes review of Mindset

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 13 others

Bruce Greenwald, Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2014

Living standards rise through learning, and how policy can make economies learn.

“For a wonderful book that builds on Arrow's research, see Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald, Creating A Learning Society” — Michael Mauboussin

Source: Increasing Returns: Identifying Forms of Increasing Returns and What Drives Them (Consilient Observer)

Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin

Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt · 2018

Three false beliefs taught to young Americans, and how they harm their minds.

David Epstein · 2019

Early specialisation works only where rules are stable; elsewhere breadth wins.

Lewis Carroll Epstein · 1979

“There's another great book that's called Thinking Physics. I open this one all the time.” — Naval Ravikant

Source: The Knowledge Project (Farnam Street) — 'Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher', full transcript

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Mitchel Resnick · 1994

“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

Cal Newport · 2012

Career capital before passion; building rare and valuable skills

Arkebe Oqubay, Kenichi Ohno · 2019

Technological learning and catch-up; the theory behind Ethiopia's industrial parks.

Booker T. Washington · 1900

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Mortimer J. Adler, Charles van Doren · 1940

A method for reading hard books for understanding, not just information.

Frederick Bodmer · 1943

A guide to learning more than one language, focused on Europe's languages.

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Richard Rodríguez · 1982

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Howard Gardner · 1983

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi · 1984

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Peter Thiel, David O. Sacks · 1995

Subtitled 'Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus'

David Denby · 1996

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Richard Michael Fischl · 1999

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Joshua Foer · 2000

A journalist learns memory techniques and wins the US Memory Championship.

Josh Waitzkin · 2007

What a chess prodigy turned tai chi champion learned about learning itself.

Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn, Curtis W. Johnson · 2008
Daniel Coyle · 2009

How talent is grown, not born, through a brain mechanism training can tap.

Frederick M. Hess · 2010

How schools and districts can save money while still serving students well.

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Steven Brill · 2011

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Irvin N. Gleim, Garrett W. Gleim · 2011

Study outlines and FAA questions for passing the private pilot knowledge test.

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Daniel Coyle · 2012

Field-tested tips for improving skills in sport, music, art, maths and business.

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Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica · 2013

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Josh Kaufman · 2013

How to learn a new skill fast: break it down, practise well, remove barriers.

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Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool · 2016

How experts in music, chess, medicine and sport excel through deliberate practice.

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Michael B. Horn, Bob Moesta · 2019

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Esther Wojcicki · 2019

A teacher's methods for raising independent, successful children.

Diane Tavenner · 2019

How parents can stop worrying about their children's future and help them prepare.

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Scott H. Young · 2019

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Andrew S. Rosen

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