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Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in over 2...

Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Poshmark, Postmates, Thumbtack, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Clubhouse, Stack Overflow, OpenDNS, Yammer, and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than 10 Unicorn companies.Ravikant is a Fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. He is also a podcaster who shares advice on pursuing wealth and happiness.

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Listening to the clearest thinker alive - @DavidDeutschOxf
Kudos to @tylercowen for being willing to challenge David. https://twitter.com/petrikajander/status/1400526411836833797
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David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them
David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them
Tyler describes Oxford professor and theoretical physicist David Deutsch as a “maximum philosopher of freedom” with no rival. A pioneer in the field of quantum computing, Deutsch subscribes to the multiple-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. He is also adamant that the universe (or multivers
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Jed McKenna is to spirituality what Rick and Morty is to children’s cartoons.
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Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
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@paulccox I grew up playing strategy games, so second nature to me. You may want to try The Compleat Strategyst, The Origins of Virtue, The Evolution of Cooperation, etc.
Everything else written by Matt Ridley. Matt is a scientist, optimist, and forward thinker. One of my favorite authors. I’ve read everything of his, and reread everything of his.
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, complex societies? In this fascinating examination of the roots of human trust and virtue, a zoologist and former American editor of the Economist reveals the resul
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@paulccox I grew up playing strategy games, so second nature to me. You may want to try The Compleat Strategyst, The Origins of Virtue, The Evolution of Cooperation, etc.
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The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy
The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy
When J. D. Williams wrote this entertaining, witty introduction for the nonscientist, game theory was still a somewhat mysterious subject familiar to very few scientists beyond those researchers, like himself, working for the military. Now, over thirty years after its original publication as a Rand
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@paulccox I grew up playing strategy games, so second nature to me. You may want to try The Compleat Strategyst, The Origins of Virtue, The Evolution of Cooperation, etc.
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The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation provides valuable insights into the age-old question of whether unforced cooperation is ever possible. Widely praised and much-discussed, this classic book explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists—whether superpowers, businesses, or individu
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Must read. (Twitter thread on “intellectual compounding” by @Zaoyang).
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1/ There's a concept known as financial compounding, but most people don't know about intellectual compounding. Buffett and Munger employed t...
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Fantastic read. https://t.co/bemNthOxOG
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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less w
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Every business school should have a course on Aggregation Theory. Or learn it from the master himself, @benthompson
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Defining Aggregators
Defining Aggregators
Aggregation Theory describes how platforms (i.e. aggregators) come to dominate the industries in which they compete in a systematic and predictable way. Aggregation Theory should serve as a guidebook for aspiring platform companies, a warning for industries predicated on controlling distribution, an
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Want to become smarter in ten minutes? Absorb this. https://t.co/1E1E0CxXuT
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Crony Beliefs | Melting Asphalt
Crony Beliefs | Melting Asphalt
For as long as I can remember, I've struggled to make sense of the terrifying gulf that separates the inside and outside views of beliefs. From the inside, via introspection, each of us feels that our beliefs are pretty damn sensible. Sure we might harbor a bit of doubt here and there. But for the
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Must read. https://t.co/tmDgtFvQ79
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Lazy Leadership: Why I rarely go to the office, only see my team a couple times a week, and let other people make important decisions
Lazy Leadership: Why I rarely go to the office, only see my team a couple times a week, and let other people make important decisions
Let’s just get this out there: on paper, I’m a terrible CEO. I avoid going into the office, I only meet with my team a couple times a week, and I especially hate giving speeches, coming up with vision statements, leading meetings, and all the other CEO-y stuff you read about in HBR.
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Rules to live, and prosper by.
"The Munger Operating System: A Life That Really Works"
h/t @cleveille https://t.co/6gsEprqNih
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The Munger Operating System: A Life That Really Works
The Munger Operating System: A Life That Really Works
Charlie Munger gave the 2007 USC Law School Commencement Address, and within it, outlined a very wise operating system for leading a good life.
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@KevinSimler @ben_mathes Great read. "Quantum physics is not "weird". You are weird."
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Think Like Reality - LessWrong 2.0
Think Like Reality - LessWrong 2.0
Whenever I hear someone describe quantum physics as "weird" - whenever I hear someone bewailing the mysterious effects of observation on the observed, or the bizarre existence of nonlocal correlations, or the incredible impossibility of knowing position and momentum at the same time - then I think t
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Best post I've read on "Career Decisions" (in Silicon Valley / tech): http://t.co/fp6c83dSo7 by @eladgil
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Career Decisions
Career Decisions
Whenever you make a decision on what step to take next in your career[1], I think it is worth considering the following factors. Depending on your stage of life or career, different factors become more or less important[2].
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Matt Ridley's "The Rational Optimist" is the most brilliant and enlightening book I've read in years. He has written 4 of my top 20
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa
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The best book I've read in 2018, I highly recommend it. Lots of great ideas in there. Lots of good mental models and constructs. He has a bit of an attitude, but he has that because he's brilliant, and it's okay. So just look past the attitude and read the book, learn the concepts. It's one of the best business books I've ever read. And luckily, it doesn't masquerade as a business book.
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Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time re
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This is his collection of ancient wisdom.
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The Bed of Procrustes
The Bed of Procrustes
*Description from Goodreads:* The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled
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He is also famous for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, and Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and Markets, all of which are worth reading.
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The Black Swan
The Black Swan
*Description from Goodreads:* A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing su
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Must-read free e-book from @eugenewei on how to analyze social media businesses. https://t.co/1Waf6e6iCe
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Status as a Service (StaaS)
Status as a Service (StaaS)
*Excerpt:* "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of little fortune, must be in want of more social capital." So wrote Jane Austen, or she would have, I think, if she were chronicling our current age (instead we have Taylor Lorenz, and thank goodness for that). Let's
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