Naval Ravikant

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Entrepreneur and investor. Co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of AngelList. Notable early-stage investments in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, and Wish.com... Show More

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Naval Ravikant @naval · Nov 5, 2022

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Good thread. 👌

Tweet Nov 5, 2022

🧵 There’s a lot of discussion around Twitter verification right now, aka the “Blue Check”. I am going to dump some brief thoughts about the Blue Check. I think they are relevant and cover nuances frequently overlooked. /1 twitter.com/NolanOBrien/

by Nolan O'Brien

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Naval Ravikant @naval · Nov 23, 2021

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Not quite. The closest is Illusions by Richard Bach, more of a midwestern-Jesus version than an eastern-Buddha tale. The Siddhartha story is itself a retelling of stories from the Ashtavakra Gita and Vasistha’s Yoga - both highly recommended.

Book 1922

by Hermann Hesse

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Naval Ravikant @naval · Nov 23, 2021

From Twitter

Not quite. The closest is Illusions by Richard Bach, more of a midwestern-Jesus version than an eastern-Buddha tale. The Siddhartha story is itself a retelling of stories from the Ashtavakra Gita and Vasistha’s Yoga - both highly recommended.

Book 1977

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

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Naval Ravikant @naval · Nov 22, 2021

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The Beginning of Infinity, Chapter 15. Better yet, read the whole book (slowly and carefully).

Book Mar 1, 2011

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

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Naval Ravikant @naval · Nov 10, 2021

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If you can understand this, then you can understand it all.

Tweet Nov 9, 2021

The reason I like the phrase “computers that can make commitments” is that it expresses the full generality of the blockchain app design space. cdixon.org/2020/01/26/computers-that-can-make-commitments (I realize it hasn’t caught on yet - I think

by Chris Dixon

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