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
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
Dream Yoga
Thermoinfocomplexity
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Calculus Made Easy
Art of the Living Dead
No Bullshit Guide to Math and Physics
The Truth about Carbs
Planetary
Rick and Morty Book One
Rick and Morty Book Two
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
The Compleat Strategyst
Illusions
100 Best-Loved Poems
At Home in the Universe
Direct Truth
The Jack Vance Treasury
The Gay Science
Math, Better Explained
Nature Via Nurture
Total Freedom
Rick and Morty Book Four
Hagakure
The Art of Manipulation
Absolute Tao
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Neuromancer
Q.E.D.
War Nerd
Flowers for Algernon
Great Short Poems
Freedom from the Known
The Salmon of Doubt
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ficciones
Soon I Will Be Invincible
The Heart of Yoga
The Boys Vol. 1
Think on These Things
The Great Challenge
Dreamstate
Lord of Light
The Essential Writings
Wind, Sand and Stars
The Path to Love
Fallen Leaves
Fables
Courage
Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
The Enchiridion
Watchmen
Science and Method
How to Teach Your Baby to Read
The Agile Gene
Tao of Philosophy
A Soldier of the Great War
The God Proof
Transmetropolitan
Distress
The Bed of Procrustes
Live Your Truth
Vasistha's Yoga
The Macintosh Way
How to Teach Your Baby Math
Batman
Rick and Morty Book Three
Thinking Physics

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