#1309 - Naval Ravikant

Machines should be working nine to five. Humans are not meant to work nine to five.

The modern environmental movement identifies the correct problem, but doesn't come up with the right set of solutions that are appealing to people

You don't want to be the guy who succeeds in life while being high-strung, high-stress, and unhappy while leaving a trail of emotional wreckage for you and your loved ones

I believe everybody can be wealthy. It's not a zero-sum game. It is a positive-sum game.

In the future, either you're telling a computer what to do or a computer is telling you what to do—and you don't want to be on the wrong side of that transaction. If you're an Uber driver, the computer's telling you what to do. You're following orders. Your days are numbered in that job because you're not in a creative job. On the other hand, if yo... See more

Humans are always signaling. Rather than really looking at yourself, you're looking at how other people look at you.

You have to find something bigger than you in life eventually, and if you don't, you blow yourself up—maybe not physically and literally but probably mentally ... That could be children, that could be God, that could be a cause, that could be some personal spirituality, that could be some movement, that could be some circle. It could just be the 20... See more

The cost of meetings is so high especially given all the people who are in there... you're literally just dying an hour at a time. So you have to just drop non-urgent meetings or forget them all together if you want to do anything great.

We waste so much energy through anxiety. If you can be calm and still go about your business, it's a superpower.