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

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Transmetropolitan

Transmetropolitan

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The God Proof

The God Proof

Jeffrey Kegler
A Soldier of the Great War

A Soldier of the Great War

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The Agile Gene

The Agile Gene

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How to Teach Your Baby to Read

How to Teach Your Baby to Read

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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

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Fables

Fables

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Fallen Leaves

Fallen Leaves

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The Path to Love

The Path to Love

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Wind, Sand and Stars

Wind, Sand and Stars

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The Essential Writings

The Essential Writings

Mahatma Gandhi
Lord of Light

Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny
Dreamstate

Dreamstate

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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"

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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Hagakure
Rick and Morty Book Four
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The Jack Vance Treasury
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100 Best-Loved Poems
Illusions
The Compleat Strategyst
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Rick and Morty Book Two
Rick and Morty Book One
Planetary
The Truth about Carbs
No Bullshit Guide to Math and Physics
Art of the Living Dead
Calculus Made Easy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Thermoinfocomplexity
Dream Yoga
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
Sun Rises in the Evening
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Book of Life
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
The Fabric of Reality
V for Vendetta
The Sandman
Striking Thoughts
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God's Debris
The Unwritten
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Spiritual Warfare
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The Great Book of Amber
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What is Life?
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The Power of Myth
The Order of Time
Reality Is Not What It Seems
Why Information Grows
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