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."

Infinite Powers

Infinite Powers

Steven Strogatz
What Do You Care What Other People Think?

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Richard P. Feynman
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Timothy Gowers
Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Evolution of Everything

The Evolution of Everything

Matt Ridley
How to Teach Your Baby Math

How to Teach Your Baby Math

Glenn Doman
The Macintosh Way

The Macintosh Way

Guy Kawasaki
Vasistha's Yoga

Vasistha's Yoga

Swami Venkatesananda
Live Your Truth

Live Your Truth

Kamal Ravikant
The Bed of Procrustes

The Bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Transmetropolitan

Transmetropolitan

Warren Ellis
The God Proof

The God Proof

Jeffrey Kegler
A Soldier of the Great War

A Soldier of the Great War

Mark Helprin
The Agile Gene

The Agile Gene

Matt Ridley
How to Teach Your Baby to Read

How to Teach Your Baby to Read

Glenn Doman
Science and Method

Science and Method

Henri Poincaré
Watchmen

Watchmen

Alan Moore
The Enchiridion

The Enchiridion

Epictetus
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Neal Stephenson
Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment

Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment

Jed McKenna

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Naval Ravikant: "Worth reading"

Fables

Fables

Bill Willingham
Fallen Leaves

Fallen Leaves

Will Durant
The Path to Love

The Path to Love

Deepak Chopra
Wind, Sand and Stars

Wind, Sand and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Essential Writings

The Essential Writings

Mahatma Gandhi
Lord of Light

Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny
Dreamstate

Dreamstate

Jed McKenna
The Great Challenge

The Great Challenge

Osho

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One of Naval Ravikant's Top 3 Osho books.

The Boys Vol. 1

The Boys Vol. 1

Garth Ennis

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One of Naval Ravikant's top 10 graphic novels.

The Heart of Yoga

The Heart of Yoga

T. K. V. Desikachar
Soon I Will Be Invincible

Soon I Will Be Invincible

Austin Grossman
Ficciones

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

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Naval Ravikant: "Buy the book"

Sapiens
Principles
Snow Crash
The Sovereign Individual
The Three Body Problem
Meditations
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Lessons of History
Influence
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Rational Optimist
Foundation
Antifragile
Man's Search for Meaning
Skin In The Game
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Lord of the Rings
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
How to Change Your Mind
The Network State
The Great CEO Within
Economics in One Lesson
A Pattern Language
Siddhartha
The Third Wave
Homo Deus
The Wealth of Nations
Who We Are and How We Got Here
The Power of Habit
Genome
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Diamond Age
How Innovation Works
The Red Queen
Fooled By Randomness
The Black Swan
12 Rules For Life
The Beginning Of Infinity
Infinite Powers
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Six Easy Pieces
Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing
Thing Explainer
Permutation City
Nexus
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Awareness
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Exhalation
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
The Origins of Virtue
Stories of Your Life and Others
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
Letters from a Stoic
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Pre-Suasion
The Untethered Soul
The Book of Why
The Prophet
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Sex at Dawn
The Book of Five Rings
The Evolution of Everything
Tao Te Ching
Thinking Physics
Rick and Morty Book Three
Batman
How to Teach Your Baby Math
The Macintosh Way
Vasistha's Yoga
Live Your Truth
The Bed of Procrustes
Distress
Transmetropolitan
The God Proof
A Soldier of the Great War
Tao of Philosophy
The Agile Gene
How to Teach Your Baby to Read
Science and Method
Watchmen
The Enchiridion
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
Courage
Fables
Fallen Leaves
The Path to Love
Wind, Sand and Stars
The Essential Writings
Lord of Light
Dreamstate
The Great Challenge
Think on These Things
The Boys Vol. 1
The Heart of Yoga
Soon I Will Be Invincible
Ficciones

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