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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Religion and Spirituality

Scripture, theology, comparative religion, meditation, Buddhism, Vedanta and the contemplative and non-dual traditions. Read by practitioners and by readers exploring belief and inner experience.

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  1. OrthodoxyG. K. Chesterton, 1908
  2. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the WorldRene Girard, 1978
  3. The Power of MythJoseph Campbell, Bill Moyers, 1988
  4. To Serve God and Wal-MartBethany Moreton, 2009
  5. Islam, Authoritarianism, and UnderdevelopmentAhmet T. Kuru, 2019
G. K. Chesterton · 1908

How a search for a philosophy of his own led him to Christian theology.

Rene Girard · 1978

Mimetic rivalry, where rivals grow alike, and the violence it unleashes in societies.

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers · 1988

Campbell on the recurring stories cultures tell themselves

Bethany Moreton · 2009

How Wal-Mart's culture and labour model were built.

Ahmet T. Kuru · 2019

Why Muslim-majority countries lag: an old alliance of clerics and military states.

Dag Hammarskjold · 1964

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Christopher Isherwood · 1965

The life and spiritual attainment of Ramakrishna in a temple near Calcutta.

Recommended by: Steve Jobs

Emma Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz · 1970

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Jiddu Krishnamurti · 1992

Talks and writings on religion and the search for the sacred.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Jiddu Krishnamurti · 1992

Talks and writings on relationship as a basis for solving the world's crises.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

James Redfield, Carol Andrienne · 1993

A novel of an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery and its predictions.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason

Swami Venkatesananda · 1993

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Jiddu Krishnamurti · 1994

Talks on how fear and dependence shape lives and keep people from seeing themselves.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Jiddu Krishnamurti · 1994

Talks on intimate relationships, isolation and self-knowledge, and facing loneliness.

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T. K. V. Desikachar · 1995

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Jiddu Krishnamurti · 1996

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Swami Chidvilasananda · 1996

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Eckhart Tolle · 1997

Suffering comes from identifying with the mind's chatter; freedom from living now.

David R. Hawkins · 1998

A scale of human consciousness and a claimed method to test any statement's truth.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Jiddu Krishnamurti · 2000

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Rodney Stark · 2001

How belief in one god shaped Western history, from religious wars to commandments.

Recommended by: Stewart Brand

Sharon Salzberg · 2002

Recommended by: Jerry Colonna

Robert E. Svoboda · 2005

An introduction to Ayurveda and how to identify one's body constitution, or prakriti.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Jon Kabat-Zinn · 2006

Short reflections and practices for starting mindfulness, read at random or daily.

Recommended by: Ev Williams

Matthieu Ricard · 2007

Recommended by: Daniel Petre, Richard Branson

Michael A. Singer · 2007

You are the awareness watching your thoughts and feelings, not those thoughts.

Translated by M. A. Haleem · 2008

Recommended by: Kevin Kelly

Yongey Mingyur, Eric Swanson · 2009

Recommended by: Safi Bahcall

William Dalrymple · 2009

Nine people in India, among them a monk and a Jain nun, and how they live faith.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Eben Alexander · 2012

A neurosurgeon in a coma describes a journey beyond this world to a divine source.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

John Templeton · 2012

“we will be giving you a book by Sir John Templeton: this year, ''The Essential Worldwide Laws of Life''” — Prem Watsa

Source: Fairfax Financial 2016 Shareholders' Letter, p. 26

Recommended by: Prem Watsa

Clayton Christensen · 2012

Religious book, outside his management writing

Agapi Stassinopoulos · 2012

Recommended by: Simon Sinek

Dan Harris · 2014

A news anchor's panic attack on air leads him to meditation, and what it did for him.

Dave Furman · 2016

Recommended by: Bret Victor

Andrew Holecek · 2016

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Chade-Meng Tan · 2016

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

Lao Tzu · 2017

Eighty-one short chapters on the Tao, the founding text of Taoism.

Rick Hanson · 2020

Seven practices, steadiness to timelessness, joining brain science and meditation.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Anthony de Mello · 2021

“I've been really enjoying Anthony de Mello's book Stop Fixing Yourself on this topic. It's a serious bucket of cold water over the head for anyone who's an obsessive striver.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Newsletter

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Kapil Gupta

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Jed McKenna

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Bob Buford

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Swami Chidvilasananda

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Lao Tzu, Robert G. Henricks (trans.)

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Mahatma Gandhi, John Dear

Writings by the leader of India's independence movement on practising nonviolence.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Blaise Pascal, A.J. Krailsheimer

Philosophical fragments of an unfinished defence of the Christian religion.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Eckhart Tolle

Meditations and exercises for quieting thought and living in the present moment.

Recommended by: David Cancel

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