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What Naval Ravikant Says About Reading
5 episodes featuring Naval Ravikant on reading
Key Insights on Reading
The first three chapters of The Beginning of Infinity are essential reading for epistemology, though the middle sections require comfort with scientific concepts
- The Lindy effect applies to books about human nature, while bleeding-edge knowledge is essential for developing specific, marketable skills
- Like Antifragile author Taleb, Naval reads entire bodies of work: 'I don't read books these days. I read authors. I don't read authors. I read philosophers'
- Echoing The Lessons of History, Naval believes 'the only books I would want to read are the timeless ones about human nature with incredibly intelligent people'
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