Naval Ravikant

“I was reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, although I think I’ll put that down. I get it. About half-way through it’s just a giant drug-fueled orgy by Hunter S. Thompson and his friend. It was entertaining, but I sort of gave up after a bit.”

“Nexus is fantastic. I’ll check out Red.”

“For example, instead of reading a business book, pick up Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. Instead of reading a book on biology or evolution that’s written today, I would pick up Darwin’s Origin of the Species. Instead of reading a book on biotech right now that may be very advanced, I would just pick up The Eighth Day of Creation by Watson and Crick. Instead of reading advanced books on what cosmology and what Neil Degrasse Tyson and Stephen Hawking have been saying, you can pick up Richard Feynman’s Six Easy Pieces and start with basic physics.”

“Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.”

“Current reading list. Most into “The Beginning of Infinity” and “What is Life?” at the moment. pic.twitter.com/L1JncsXiIL”

“Nasim Talab had that great blog post and chapter in his book Skin in the Game about the intolerant minority.”

“Jiddu Krishnamurti, who is a lesser known guy, an Indian philosopher who lived at the turn of the last century is extremely influential to me. he’s an uncompromising, very direct person who basically tells you to look at your own mind at all times. So I have been hugely influenced by him. Probably the best book of his that I like is one called The Book of Life, which is excerpts from his various speeches and books that are stitched together.”

“Popper, Deutsch, Schopenhauer, Osho, Krishnamurti, DeMello, Seneca, Kapil Gupta, Taleb, there are too many...”

“From “Total Freedom.” It’s all over but particularly “A Dynamic Society” and “Living in Ecstasy.” pic.twitter.com/sPhZSMwxPh”

“Popper, Deutsch, Schopenhauer, Osho, Krishnamurti, DeMello, Seneca, Kapil Gupta, Taleb, there are too many...”

“Start with The Beginning of Infinity. Then read Matt Ridley, Nick Szabo, David Deutsch, Nassim Taleb, Schopenhauer, Peter Thiel, Popper, Feynman, Art DeVany, Scott Adams, Jed McKenna. Recognize them when they challenge socially enforced mass-delusions with science and logic.”

“It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.”

“Start with The Beginning of Infinity. Then read Matt Ridley, Nick Szabo, David Deutsch, Nassim Taleb, Schopenhauer, Peter Thiel, Popper, Feynman, Art DeVany, Scott Adams, Jed McKenna. Recognize them when they challenge socially enforced mass-delusions with science and logic.”

“The Origins of Virtue, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Strategy of Conflict. Or just play multiplayer negotiation games like Diplomacy.”

“Deutsch, Taleb, and Feynman mainly. Also Bohr, Schrödinger, Mandelbrot, Chait, Gödel, Rovelli, others (I know, some are mathematicians and some have never written a formal book on philosophy). On the non-physicist Western side, currently reading Schopenhauer.”

““The next thing I would do is read The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch. It's the best explanation of existence in existence…”https://getairchat.com/s/oUN9MCU1”

“Nobody agrees on what the right philosophy is and they contradict each other. So I would say read Deutsch / Popper and leave it at that.”

“It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.”

“No single favorite, but I liked V for Vendetta, Watchmen, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Sandman, and The Unwritten.”

“Popper, Deutsch, Schopenhauer, Osho, Krishnamurti, DeMello, Seneca, Kapil Gupta, Taleb, there are too many...”

“Great book!”

“Deutsch, Taleb, and Feynman mainly. Also Bohr, Schrödinger, Mandelbrot, Chait, Gödel, Rovelli, others (I know, some are mathematicians and some have never written a formal book on philosophy). On the non-physicist Western side, currently reading Schopenhauer.”

“No single favorite, but I liked V for Vendetta, Watchmen, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Sandman, and The Unwritten.”

“No single favorite, but I liked V for Vendetta, Watchmen, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Sandman, and The Unwritten.”

“No single favorite, but I liked V for Vendetta, Watchmen, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Sandman, and The Unwritten.”

“Can I recommend one Osho book? I would recommend a book called "The Sun Rises in the Evening". I haven't read all of it yet, I've been going through it, but it's my favorite one so far and I'm savoring it. I've literally been half highlighting half of every page.”

“This is the oldest wisdom in the book. Go to the Bhagavad-Gita. It says you are entitled to your labor but not to the fruits of your labor.”

“Lord of Light, Snow Crash, Borges and Ted Chiang short stories.”

“Krishnamurti, I don’t know, Kapil Gupta, Rupert Spira.”

“No single favorite, but I liked V for Vendetta, Watchmen, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Sandman, and The Unwritten.”

“It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.”

“Thermoinfocomplexity.”

“I read his book The Red Queen, which laid out the age-old competition between bacteria, viruses and humans—a topic that’s extremely relevant today.”

“His book The Evolution of Everything continued that theme towards everything evolving.”

“I did read the whole thing, but he doesn’t address heat death or maximum entropy anywhere. His definition of God is of a partial (eventually, infinitesimal) creature, which doesn’t make sense. Asimov tackled this better in “The Last Question.” Anyway, too much for Twitter.”

“No single favorite, but I liked V for Vendetta, Watchmen, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Sandman, and The Unwritten.”

“No single favorite, but I liked V for Vendetta, Watchmen, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Sandman, and The Unwritten.”

“When you combine things you're not supposed to combine people get interested.”

“The Origins of Virtue, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Strategy of Conflict. Or just play multiplayer negotiation games like Diplomacy.”

“I liked it. But these kinds of books aren’t quick reads, they’re inspiration to self reflect.”

“It's more of an overview book because I couldn't make it through his actual writings.”

“I don't think I needed to read the entire book to get the point but it was still good to read it.”

“I reread God's Debris recently.”

“[on Kindle]”

“On the back cover it has this great little pitch it says "the only book that's used in both grade school and graduate school" and it's true it's all simple physics puzzles that can be explained to a twelve-year-old child they can puzzle over and it can be explained to a 25 year old grad student in physics.”

“Current reading list. Most into “The Beginning of Infinity” and “What is Life?” at the moment. pic.twitter.com/L1JncsXiIL”

“The Great Challenge. Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic. And this:https://t.co/6WvUpIjpKV”

“Snow Crash, Ted Chiang, Greg Egan, Three Body Problem...”

“Krishnamurti was incredibly influential on me. When I first read him in my late thirties, it was like a bomb went off in my head. He was speaking in a language that was completely removed from my own. He wrote in a very complex form of English where he used certain words in a way that didn't line up with what I had learned over my entire life. But it had the feel of truth to it. He laid out a clear, consistent, and integrated philosophy of what it means to be conscious and free. That said, it's a very advanced read. I've given Krishnamurti to some of my friends and they just hand it back and tell me that it didn't make any sense to them. I think it's better to start with something simpler like Eckart Tolle, Adyashanti, Jed McKenna, or Osho.”

“@yashmankad Core Teachings of the Buddha, free online.”

““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”

““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”

““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”

““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”

““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”

““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”

““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”

“[What are you currently reading?] [...] The Beginning of Infinity [...] The Fabric of Reality [...] I also have a book called Scientific Freedom which is kind of about how you do high quality scientific research. [...] Something Deeply Hidden, which is a book on the many universes theory by Sean Carroll. There is No Antimemetics Division, a sci-fi novel that I just finished. The Disappearance of the Universe. Energy and Civilization. When Money Dies.”

“[What are you currently reading?] [...] The Beginning of Infinity [...] The Fabric of Reality [...] I also have a book called Scientific Freedom which is kind of about how you do high quality scientific research. [...] Something Deeply Hidden, which is a book on the many universes theory by Sean Carroll. There is No Antimemetics Division, a sci-fi novel that I just finished. The Disappearance of the Universe. Energy and Civilization. When Money Dies.”

“[What are you currently reading?] [...] The Beginning of Infinity [...] The Fabric of Reality [...] I also have a book called Scientific Freedom which is kind of about how you do high quality scientific research. [...] Something Deeply Hidden, which is a book on the many universes theory by Sean Carroll. There is No Antimemetics Division, a sci-fi novel that I just finished. The Disappearance of the Universe. Energy and Civilization. When Money Dies.”

“[What are you currently reading?] [...] The Beginning of Infinity [...] The Fabric of Reality [...] I also have a book called Scientific Freedom which is kind of about how you do high quality scientific research. [...] Something Deeply Hidden, which is a book on the many universes theory by Sean Carroll. There is No Antimemetics Division, a sci-fi novel that I just finished. The Disappearance of the Universe. Energy and Civilization. When Money Dies.”

“[What are you currently reading?] [...] The Beginning of Infinity [...] The Fabric of Reality [...] I also have a book called Scientific Freedom which is kind of about how you do high quality scientific research. [...] Something Deeply Hidden, which is a book on the many universes theory by Sean Carroll. There is No Antimemetics Division, a sci-fi novel that I just finished. The Disappearance of the Universe. Energy and Civilization. When Money Dies.”

“The way flow was defined in that book was that you were engaged in a task at the edge of your capability where you were good enough at it that you could actually pull it off but not so good at it that it wasn't challenging to you.”

“I read a book called "The Mind of God" by Paul Davies, way back when, and then somehow from there I navigated to a book called The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch.”

“Check Anselm, Godel, and Jed McKenna.”

“When I was young, one of my favorite books on the topic was “How To Get Rich,” by Felix Dennis, the founder of Maxim Magazine. He had a lot of crazy stuff in there. But he had some really good insights too.”

“I love that book.”

“Currently reading.”

“[on Kindle]”

“[on Kindle]”

“It was really good. This guy basically goes undercover and lives with con men. He spends time with them running cons and learning all about cons. And without judgment he lays down how con men work.”

“Current reading list. Most into “The Beginning of Infinity” and “What is Life?” at the moment. pic.twitter.com/L1JncsXiIL”

“Current reading list. Most into “The Beginning of Infinity” and “What is Life?” at the moment. pic.twitter.com/L1JncsXiIL”

“Current reading list. Most into “The Beginning of Infinity” and “What is Life?” at the moment. pic.twitter.com/L1JncsXiIL”

“Current reading list. Most into “The Beginning of Infinity” and “What is Life?” at the moment. pic.twitter.com/L1JncsXiIL”

“Good books are worth re-reading. Great books are worth re-buying. pic.twitter.com/PfSSEGTjXr”

“There are many, many meditation techniques. If you ever want to run through a bunch of them you can pick up a book called The Book of Secrets by Osho. I know he's gotten a bad rap recently, but he was a pretty smart guy. It's actually a translation of an old, I believe, Sanskrit book that has something like a hundred and twenty different meditations in it and you can try each one you can just see which one works for you.”

“I didn’t know what to make of Watts either. He translates East to West pretty well, but Osho, Krishnamurti, de Mello, Lao Tzu, Upanishads, Vedic texts all feel more “real” to me.”

“Ah, I’ve read it a long time ago. Time for a re-read. Thanks.”

“Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.”

“Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.”

“V for Vendetta, The Boys, Planetary, Sandman, The Dark Knight Returns, Unwritten, Transmetropolitan.”

“Freedom from the Known is just as good. Think on These Things is just the first one that I stumbled upon.”

“Beautiful summary of an important book. Worth reading. https://t.co/XbMN8UvjK2”

“I love Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine author. His short story collection Ficciones, or Labyrinths, is amazing. [...] Yeah, Borges is probably my... still the most powerful author that I have read who wasn’t just outright writing philosophy. That was philosophy in there with the sci-fi. [...] “Library of Babel” by Borges is one of the most mind-blowing stories ever written, especially if you know the history of Borges himself, how he was a professor of literature, he managed the Argentine National Library, then he went blind in this library and wrote this amazing story about a library in which all the letters in all the books are kind of jumbled.”

“I grew up playing strategy games, so second nature to me. You may want to try The Compleat Strategyst, The Origins of Virtue, The Evolution of Cooperation, etc.”

“I would probably also give my kids a copy of Richard Feynman's Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So Easy Pieces. Richard Feynman is a famous physicist. I love both his demeanor as well as his understanding of physics. I'd also give them a copy of Jiddu Krishnamurti's The Book of Life. But I'll tell them to save it until they're older because it won't make much sense while you're younger. But whatever you tell your kids, they're probably going to do the opposite.”

“@ShivaniSafir @tferriss @sacca Alice in Wonderland. And down the rabbit hole, we go.”

“. @SteveCase is doing the behind the scenes work to support entrepreneurship in America. New book: https://t.co/R3eeLEuQoc #ThirdWaveBook”

“@toddfcole One of my all time favorite books. I quote it all the time.”

“I’m reading The Essential Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi.”

“Been reading, I’ve got here The Tao of Philosophy, by Alan Watts.”

“The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, by Nassim Taleb, who is famous for The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. I sort of like his collection of ancient wisdom, In the Bed of Procrustes.”

“I’m rereading The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.”

“A fun, light read.”

“@Rockabrontv V for Vendetta, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Sandman, Fables, The Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, The Unwritten.”

“@Rockabrontv V for Vendetta, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Sandman, Fables, The Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, The Unwritten.”

“.@pmarca Great chapter from the book by @ade3 . Admirably free on his blog, or in a convenient format here: https://t.co/jbSe6AZ4z1”

“@otisfunkmeyer There are original Rick and Morty comic books by the same writers. Just as funny, different content. Must read!”

“He has a particular blog post called “The Day You Became a Better Writer.” And even though I am a very good writer and I've been writing a lot since I was young, I still open up that blog post and I put it in the background any time I'm writing anything important. It’s that good. I use it as my basic template for how to write well. And even think about the title: the day you became a better writer.”

“This one’s a harder read but really fun, most egotistical author of all time, is The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, by Salvador Dali. The title alone should grab you and give you a sense.”

“@leonjohnstone @mattwridley Poor Charlie's Almanac, A Cultural History of Physics, Total Freedom (Krishnamurti).”

“@NateMiyaki BTW, new book is amazing. Only you could have written it. Will explain later, but this is the one.”

“@cdixon That article is also in his collected-essay book, "The Salmon of Doubt." Recommended.”

“@nicholasholland of course... :-) and snow crash etc.”

“@JeffMiller by Cornwell? Nope. If that's the one, I'll download it. For historical fiction, I like "A Soldier of the Great War"”

“Giving Keynote at #sfventuresummit on Mar 24 alongside @guykawaski - his "The Macintosh Way" led me into tech! http://t.co/ThxtVMJ”

“@Harjeet "Soon I will be Invincible" - Austin Grossman”

“@johnolilly Formative books for me. Read and re-read them over the years. Highly recommend "Lord of Light" by Zelazny as well.”

“@rabois On a lighter but still very educational note, check out "The War Nerd" by Gary Brecker, or read one of his columns at The Exile.”