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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Habits and self-control

Productivity and Habits

Books on how habits form and change, willpower, procrastination and daily routines.

Books 17Experts 2Recommenders 44
The Power of HabitThe Power of Habit
T2 The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

The habit loop of cue, routine and reward, and how to change a habit by its routine.

“I love his [Charles Duhigg's] book. By the way I got his book and gave it to everyone in the company [Bridgewater].” — Ray Dalio

Source: Dalio on giving Duhigg's book to everyone at Bridgewater

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant and 6 others

The Now HabitThe Now Habit
T4 The Now Habit
Neil Fiore · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

“One of the most important books I've read in the past 10 years. Here's the gist: take action on an idea as soon as you think of it so that you don't forget about it or let your inaction torture you.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Essay

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

A Perfect MessA Perfect Mess
T4 A Perfect Mess
Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedman · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

The case that disorder is often more efficient than imposed order

“This idea comes from a wonderful book called A Perfect Mess” — Marc Andreessen

Source: The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control WorThe Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
T4 The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
Kelly McGonigal · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Self-control as a physical capacity, and how to build it, from a Stanford course.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Jane McGonigal and 2 others

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
T4 Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Roy F. Baumeister · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A ConcisSolving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change
T4 Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change
Timothy A Pychyl · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Atomic HabitsAtomic Habits
T4 Atomic Habits
James Clear · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Build habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.

Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 21 others

Discipline Equals FreedomDiscipline Equals Freedom
T4 Discipline Equals Freedom
Jocko Willink · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Alex and Books

Miracle MorningMiracle Morning
T4 Miracle Morning
Hal Elrod · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

A daily morning routine, the SAVERS, meant to change results before the day starts.

Recommended by: John D Saunders

IndistractableIndistractable
T4 Indistractable
Nir Eyal · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Distraction comes from escaping discomfort, not technology, and how to manage it.

Recommended by: Nir Eyal, Alexis Ohanian, Allen Gannett and 4 others

Tiny HabitsTiny Habits
T4 Tiny Habits
B.J. Fogg · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Arianna Huffington, Ramit Sethi

212 Degrees212 Degrees
T4 212 Degrees
Sam Parker, Mac Anderson
Goodreads

Recommended by: Tony Hsieh

212: The Extra Degree212: The Extra Degree
T4 212: The Extra Degree
Sam Parker, Mac Anderson
Goodreads

Recommended by: Tony Hsieh

Little Wins, The Huge Power of Thinking Like
T4 Little Wins, The Huge Power of Thinking Like a Toddler
Paul Lindley
Goodreads

Recommended by: Richard Branson

Own the Day Own Your Life
T4 Own the Day Own Your Life
Aubrey Marcus
Goodreads

How one day of healthy choices, drawn from studies and old practices, builds a life.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

The Motivation Hacker
T4 The Motivation Hacker
Nick Winter
Goodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

The Power of NoThe Power of No
T4 The Power of No
James Altucher
Goodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

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