The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Very smart people tend to be weird since they insist on thinking everything through for themselves.

Build or Buy Equity in a Business

Once they’re resolved, there will come a day when you sit down to meditate, and you’ll hit a mental “inbox zero.”

Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status.

If you have a criticism of someone, then don’t criticize the person—criticize the general approach or criticize the class of activities.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

I try to get more sunlight on my skin. I look up and smile. [7]

So, accountability is a double-edged thing. It allows you to take credit when things go well and to bear the brunt of the failure when things go badly. [78]

where you live, who you’re with, and what you do.