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## Welcome

Hello, below are the books and links that Naval Ravikant mentioned in his book **The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness**.
I have a lot of respect for this man, and I just finished his book.

I enjoy reading, it would be a pleasure for me to absorb all of the references he noted.
# NAVAL’S RECOMMENDED READING:
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Taleb
- Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
- Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein
- The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger (edited by Peter Kaufman)
- Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

## PHILOSOPHY AND SPIRITUALITY Books
- Everything by Jed McKenna
- The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within by Osho
- The Great Challenge: Exploring the World Within by Osho
- The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello by Anthony de Mello
- The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant
- The Tao of Seneca: Practical Lett ers from a Stoic Master
- Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living by Bruce Lee
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

* Theory of Everything (The Enlightened Perspective) - Dreamstate Trilogy
* Jed McKenna’s Notebook
* Jed Talks #1 and #2
* Everything by Kapil Gupta, MD
* A Master’s Secret Whispers: For those who abhor noise and seek The Truth…about life and living
* Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the
enduring questions of life
* Atmamun: The Path to achieving the bliss of the Himalayan Swamis. And the freedom of a living God.

## SCIENCE FICTION
- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- “The Last Question,” a short story by Isaac Asimov

# Blogs
- Some amazing blogs out there:
- @KevinSimler—Melting Asphalt, https://meltingasphalt.com/
- @farnamstreet—Farnam Street, A Signal in a World Full of
Noise, https://fs.blog/
- @benthompson—Stratchery, https://stratechery.com/
- @baconmeteor—Idle Words, https://idlewords.com/ [4]
- “The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works” by @FarnamStreet Rules to live and prosper by.
- “The Day You Became a Better Writer” by Scott Adams
- Best post I’ve read on “Career Decisions” (in Silicon Valley/tech) by @eladgil
- Absorb this: “Crony Beliefs” by Kevin Simler.

Great read. “Quantum physics is not ‘weird.’ You are weird.”—
“Think Like Reality” [Eliezer Yudkowsky

Every business school should have a course on Aggregation
Theory. Or learn it from the master himself, @benthompson,
the best analyst in technology.

Great read. “Quantum physics is not ‘weird.’ You are weird.”—
“Think Like Reality” [Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Must-read. “Lazy Leadership” by @Awilkinson

No-holds-barred wisdom from a self-made man. Everything on
@EdLatimore’s site is worth reading for overachievers: https://
edlatimore.com/

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## Socials

OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
- Twitter accounts like:
- @AmuseChimp (my all-time favorite Twitter account)
- @mmay3r
- @nntaleb
- Art De Vany (on Facebook)
- Must-read. (Twitter thread on “intellectual compounding” by@zaoyang). [11]

There are actually some really good graphic novels out there.
If you’re open to the cartoony element of it, Transmetropolitan **Warren Ellis**, The Boys **Garth Ennis**, Planetary **Warren Ellis**, and The Sandman **Neil Gaiman**…

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## Shows
- “You and Your Research” by Richard Hamming
- Rick and Morty (TV show + comic book)