Naval Ravikant

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Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant is an Indian American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList.

Sapiens

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

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Karlie Kloss: "It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical."

Joe Rogan: "Great book... Fucking fascinating... Very enlightening."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This book was so entertaining and useful.

It provides a concise history of humankind and outlines why we have the psychology we do today (this part is great for thinking about investor behavior)."

Changpeng Zhao: "[This book] gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do."

Daniel Ek: "One of the most-talked-about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason.

Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socio-anthropological history."

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Naval Ravikant: "An orthogonal and clinical examination of the human animal, from the beginning to now.

Humans are story-telling alpha predators that killed the competition and domesticated the survivors. This is our story, and it's not all pretty."

David Sacks: "Yuval Harari’s Sapiens had a big impact on how I approach VC. The theme of the book is that humans obsess over narratives.

So I try to focus on product and metrics as a way to get to ground truth, as opposed to over-indexing on the pitch, which is mostly a story-telling event."

Melinda Gates mentioned this book as one of her 11 favorite books.

Reid Hoffman: "Sapiens has had me thinking a lot about the evolution of humanity and what our future looks like."

Mark Zuckerberg: "I found the chapter on the evolution of the role of religion in human life most interesting and something I wanted to go deeper on."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Sapiens'.

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Bill Gurley: "I really enjoyed [Sapiens]"

Bill Gates: "Melinda and I spent weeks talking about this history of the human race."

The Evolution of Everything

The Evolution of Everything

Matt Ridley
Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Timothy Gowers
What Do You Care What Other People Think?

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Richard P. Feynman
Infinite Powers

Infinite Powers

Steven Strogatz
The Elephant in the Brain

The Elephant in the Brain

Kevin Simler

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Naval Ravikant: "Fantastic read"

Waking Up

Waking Up

Sam Harris

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Naval Ravikant: "Loved 'Waking Up.'"

The Surrender Experiment

The Surrender Experiment

Michael A. Singer
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

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Naval Ravikant: "Terrific."

The Story of Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy

Will Durant
The Undercover Economist

The Undercover Economist

Tim Harford
Why Information Grows

Why Information Grows

Cesar Hidalgo
The Order of Time

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli

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The best book Naval Ravikant has read on the concept of time.

The Power of Myth

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell
Falling into Grace

Falling into Grace

Adyashanti

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What is Life?

What is Life?

Erwin Schrodinger
The Power of Now

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

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Naval Ravikant: "Power of Now is the OG"

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha

Daniel Ingram

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Naval Ravikant: "That’s a great book."

A Cultural History of Physics

A Cultural History of Physics

Károly Simonyi
The Book of Nothing

The Book of Nothing

John D. Barrow
The Great Book of Amber

The Great Book of Amber

Roger Zelazny
Diaspora

Diaspora

Greg Egan
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Jorge Luis Borges
The Unwritten

The Unwritten

Mike Carey
God's Debris

God's Debris

Scott Adams

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Naval Ravikant: "Very interesting."

Francis Crick

Francis Crick

Matt Ridley
Striking Thoughts

Striking Thoughts

Bruce Lee
The Sandman

The Sandman

Neil Gaiman
V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore
The Fabric of Reality

The Fabric of Reality

David Deutsch
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Richard P. Feynman
The Evolution of Cooperation

The Evolution of Cooperation

Robert Axelrod

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One of Naval Ravikant's Game Theory book recommendations.

Sun Rises in the Evening

Sun Rises in the Evening

Osho
Sapiens
Principles
Snow Crash
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Meditations
The Three Body Problem
The Sovereign Individual
The Rational Optimist
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Influence
The Lessons of History
Skin In The Game
Man's Search for Meaning
Antifragile
Foundation
How to Change Your Mind
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The Lord of the Rings
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Genome
The Power of Habit
Who We Are and How We Got Here
The Wealth of Nations
Homo Deus
The Third Wave
Siddhartha
A Pattern Language
Economics in One Lesson
The Great CEO Within
The Network State
The Beginning Of Infinity
12 Rules For Life
The Black Swan
Fooled By Randomness
The Red Queen
How Innovation Works
The Diamond Age
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Tao Te Ching
The Evolution of Everything
The Book of Five Rings
Sex at Dawn
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
The Prophet
The Book of Why
The Untethered Soul
Pre-Suasion
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Letters from a Stoic
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Origins of Virtue
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Exhalation
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Awareness
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Nexus
Permutation City
Thing Explainer
Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing
Six Easy Pieces
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Infinite Powers
The Elephant in the Brain
Hamlet
Waking Up
The Surrender Experiment
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Story of Philosophy
The Undercover Economist
Genius
Why Information Grows
Reality Is Not What It Seems
The Order of Time
The Power of Myth
Falling into Grace
What is Life?
The Power of Now
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
A Cultural History of Physics
The Book of Nothing
The Great Book of Amber
Diaspora
Alice in Wonderland
Spiritual Warfare
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Unwritten
God's Debris
Francis Crick
Striking Thoughts
The Sandman
V for Vendetta
The Fabric of Reality
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
The Book of Life
The Evolution of Cooperation
Sun Rises in the Evening

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