James Anderson

Changelog

A record of updates, improvements, and new features shipped for the James Anderson Knowledge Base.

V 1.7

2026-08-04

smt-2015 Core Beliefs Rebuilt from PDF

OCR Reconstruction

  • •Reconstructed the smt-annual-report-2015 'Core Beliefs' section from the two-column PDF source — both the full.txt OCR and the original were interleaved/corrupted; pdfplumber two-column extraction recovered the correct reading order and separated image captions.

V 1.6

2026-08-03

16 SMT Annual Reports Integrated, OCR Repair & Layout

Primary Sources — SMT PDFs

  • •Integrated 16 missing Scottish Mortgage annual report PDFs (2000–2009 and 2015–2021) into the corpus; the 6 reports with clean PDFs (2010–2014, 2019) embedded the original PDF via iframe in place of the garbled PDF-to-text.

OCR Repair

  • •Repaired OCR damage in smt-annual-report 2010–2014 and reflowed the 2012 / 2013 paragraph walls.

Layout & Integrity

  • •Added section headings to 5 long-form source articles. Wave 0+1 layout pass reflowed the JA source share (dual-verified, zero word change). G9 inline-quote gate driven to zero.

V 1.5

2026-08-01

W2 Repair, btbs/money-maze Rebuild & Corpus Reflow

Content Repair

  • •W2 damaged-content repair pass (JA share); rebuilt the beyond-the-bubble / money-maze corpus pages.
  • •Re-paragraphed wall-of-text transcripts (JA share).

V 1.4

2026-07-30

Architecture Consolidation

Consolidation

  • •JA share of the PTJ / Buffett R2–R7 / Bill Ackman consolidation commit — data-layer and architecture fixes aligned with the other KBs.

V 1.3

2026-07-22

Sidebar Type Grouping & Four Primary Sources

Navigation & Sources

  • •Sidebar type-grouping for the archive; wired in 4 new primary sources.

V 1.2

2026-07-21

Annual Report Archive Expansion (2000–2008)

Primary Sources

  • •Registered 9 Scottish Mortgage annual reports (2000–2008) into letters.ts — previously written content existed as ghost pages with no data layer entries, rendering them invisible to the site's routing and navigation.
  • •Total primary sources increased from 24 to 33, covering the full span of Anderson's tenure at Scottish Mortgage (2000–2023).

Sidebar & Navigation

  • •Fixed dead Changelog link in sidebar — created this changelog page to match the standard set by Buffett Letters KB.

V 1.1

2026-07-19

Electric Scarlet Identity & Archive Grouping

Visual Identity

  • •Re-skinned James Anderson KB from placeholder navy to Electric Scarlet (scheme B) — near-black #12080B sidebar + electric red #FF5252 accent, selected after two preview rounds.
  • •Ghost CTA on investment-os card updated to transparent + red border style.

Archive Organization

  • •Letters index page restructured from flat 24-item list into four type-grouped sections: Shareholder Letters (13), Essays (6), Interviews (4), Speeches (1).
  • •Corrected sm-manager-review-2020 type from essay to annual-report for semantic accuracy.

V 1.0

2026-07-18

James Anderson Knowledge Base — Initial Launch

Primary Sources

  • •Launched with 24 letters: 13 annual reports (2010–2021), 6 essays, 4 interviews, 1 speech.
  • •All excerpts verified verbatim against corpus — G2 data fidelity 100%.

Knowledge Nodes

  • •8 concept pages covering Anderson's investment philosophy: power-law returns, long-termism, transformative companies, patient capital, imagination in investing, benchmark irrelevance, refusal to forecast, epistemic humility.
  • •6 people profiles including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Tom Slater, and Anderson himself.

Quality Gates

  • •All gates passed: G1 100%, G2 95.5%/100%, G3 100%, G4 0 broken links.