Naval Collection | The Chinese version of Naval Collection is available!

Formerly Peter Kaufman’s “Poor Charlie’s Book”, a collection of Charlie Munger’s personal biography, investment philosophy, and Munger’s major public speeches and media interviews over the past 20 years; now Eric Jorgenson ) has compiled more than 17,000 tweets, interviews and speeches, as well as podcast interviews and blog essays from Naval Ravikant over a decade to publish Almanack of Naval Ravikant , focusing on how Live a life of wealth and prosperity. This week, the Chinese version is finally published, let’s celebrate!

I have introduced the great god Naval many times in articles in the past two years, and now I finally have a book to systematically understand his philosophy of life. I am very grateful to Eric for spending three years sorting and assembling it into a book. The book was also endorsed by well-known blogger Tim Ferriss for the first time ever to write a foreword, as well as recommendations from other bloggers I like (like Shane Parrish and Tucker Max). A summary of Naval’s tweets and podcasts I’ve translated over the years.
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Naval’s most famous tweet storm is one of the most retweeted tweets in Twitter history. The bottom line is that you can’t get rich by selling your time, you need to own assets (companies, stocks, or entities), or technology (code or media) that can help you make money while you sleep.

1. Seek wealth, not money and status. Having wealth means having assets to make money for you while you sleep. Money represents how we transfer time and wealth. Status represents your social class.
2. Recognize that it is possible to create wealth ethically. If you privately despise wealth, wealth will shun you too.
3. Stay away from status seekers who rely on attacking wealth creators for their status.
4. You don’t get rich by renting out your time, you have to have capital: a company, say, to help you achieve financial freedom.
5. You’ll get rich on a massive scale by giving society something it wants but doesn’t know how to get.
6. Choose long-term co-workers and sustainable industries as your game objects.
7. The Internet has greatly expanded career options, and most people don’t realize it yet.
8. Play iterative games. All rewards in life, whether wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compounding.
9. Choose a business partner with high IQ and high energy, and the most important quality is honesty and integrity.
10. Don’t work with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are just self-realization.
11. Learn how to sell, learn how to create, and if you can do both, no one can stop you.
12. Arm yourself with expertise (special skills), responsibility and influence.
13. Expertise (special skills) means that people cannot acquire it through training. If this society can train you to do this, it can also train others to replace you.
14. Expertise (special skills) is pursued by your curiosity and enthusiasm, not by chasing hot spots.
15. Building expertise (special skills) is like play for you, but difficult for others.
16. When people teach expertise (special skills), it is usually through apprenticeships, not through school.
17. Expertise (special skills) usually requires high skill and creativity and cannot be automated or outsourced.
18. Accept accountability and take business risks in your own name. Society will reward you for your sense of responsibility, capital and influence.
19. Those who take responsibility have unique, high-profile, high-risk brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, and Elon Musk, for example.
20. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum and I can move the earth. – Archimedes
21. Creating wealth requires leverage. Commercial leverage comes from capital, labor, and products (such as code and media) that have no marginal cost of reproduction.
22. Capital means money. To raise funds, use expertise (special skills) and your influence, and show good judgment.
23. Owning the workforce means having someone work for you, which is the oldest and most competitive form of leverage. Labor leverage will make a previous generation proud of you, but don’t waste your life chasing it.
24. Capital and labor are constrained levers. Everyone is chasing capital, but you need someone to give you capital; everyone wants to lead others, but you need someone to follow you.
25. Programming and media are unlimited leverage. They are the weapons of the newly rich. You can create software and media content that makes money while you sleep.
26. Plenty of bots are free, use them.
27. If you don’t know how to program, write books and blogs, or do videos and podcasts.
28. Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment.
29. Judgment is based on experience, but can be accelerated by learning the most basic skills.
30. There is no such skill called “business”. Stay away from business magazines and business courses.
31. Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, negotiation theory, ethics, mathematics and computer science.
32. Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
33. You should avoid those pointless coffee meetings if you want to keep a neat calendar.
34. Set your own hourly rate. If the cost of solving a problem is less than your hourly rate, ignore the problem; if outsourcing the problem costs less than your hourly rate, outsource it.
35. Work as hard as you can, although who you work with and what projects are more important than hard work.
36. Develop yourself to be the best person in the world to do something. Keep redefining what you do until you become the best you can be.
37. There is no myth of getting rich overnight. It’s just that other people get rich through you.
38. By leveraging and using your expertise (special skills), you will eventually get what you deserve.
39. When you finally get wealth, you will find that it is not what you were looking for in the first place. This is another topic.​

• If fake news is rampant right now, imagine our history.
• Humanity is gradually shifting from a struggle with suffering to a struggle with pleasure.
• If you don’t want bosses, you better have the ability to survive in the wilderness.
• Difficult decisions → easy lives; easy decisions → difficult lives.
• Not wanting something is as good as having it.
• To avoid the harm of insults, stop exaggerating the power of praise.
• Meditation has no value, that’s why you meditate.
• The unexamined self travels the world pretending to be something you hate (when you hate someone or something, most of the time you see yourself in that person and event).
• Be alone.
• In the end, you have to accept that everything is a miracle, or that there is no miracle in the world.
• The known creates peace, the unknown creates emotion.

1. A healthy body, a peaceful mind, and a sense of happiness cannot be bought, but earned by oneself.
2. The most unrealistic fantasy is that there is something in the world that will make you happy forever.
3. Our time on earth is a snap of our fingers, and nothing we do can last for long. You will perish, everything you have done will be gone, your thoughts will no longer exist, your descendants will perish, the whole earth will perish, so will the sun, and everything will.
4. I don’t plan, I tend to live in the moment, free myself, and enjoy the moment.
5. Desires are an unhappy contract you made with yourself, and contract deadlines are when your desires are fulfilled.
6. All the important things in life benefit from compound interest: money, relationships, and habits.
7. Humans are “habit machines”. Learning how to break old bad habits and cultivating good habits is the most important skill for human beings to learn.
8. Think fundamentally, learn to use “first principles” to explain problems, forget old social norms, and control your emotions.
9. Reality is neutral and everything depends on how we define our own reality. Heaven and hell are in one’s own mind.
10. To avoid the harm of insults, stop exaggerating the power of praise.
11. Life is a stand-alone game, you need to find your own way of playing, understand your own desires and goals you want to achieve, and establish your own beliefs in life and ways of looking at things.
12. No one on the internet cares if the cat or the dog is behind the screen, people care what you output.
13. Good ideas + execution are the secret to the success of self-made entrepreneurs. Those “fake entrepreneurs” who always complain that they have no capital and connections are all making excuses.
14. There is no unified meaning of life, and if there were, we would all be slaves to that meaning. Since there is no standard answer to the meaning of life, create a meaning for yourself and write your own life story.
15. You can’t have everything, but you will get what you want most. See your desires clearly and find out the source of your desires. Those who know the meaning of life can bear the weight of life.
16. The 9-to-5 is modern slavery, and wages are addictive poison.
17. The person most deceives is himself. Always examine your own life and find your “truth”.
18. If Stalin, Hitler, or Martin Luther King lived in the modern age, then Clubhouse was their best calling vehicle. Therefore, also be wary of speakers who have a large crowd on the platform.
19. Most of the physical hypotheses, like quantum mechanics and the multiverse, seem to be crazy at first, but gradually become scientifically confirmed, and there will be more such examples in the future.
20. In today’s society, there is no shortage of information and truth, but the unity of knowledge and action. If you don’t integrate theory into practice, that’s not your knowledge and wisdom.
21. A good social environment accepts people making mistakes and provides immediate feedback.
22. Science is to use what we know to explain the unknown. There is no eternal truth in the world, only the truth that has not been falsified temporarily.
23. Recommend reading The Beginning of Infinity by physicist David Deutsch.
24. Sit down and think about your life five years ago, what advice would you give to your then-now? Then think about your life ten years ago, what advice would you give to your then self now? You are your own best therapist, and you will find that no matter how your life changes, some of your behavior patterns will repeat, some unresolved problems will always emerge, and it is time to start from the source to solve the essential problems.
25. Life is not a zero-sum game, the universe provides us with infinite resources, what we need to do is to keep innovating and learn to use these resources.
26. Train yourself to be a trial-error-correction machine, the only way to “truth”.
27. When faced with a problem you always have a choice: accept it, change it or ignore it.

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1. People are interested in people with multiple, unrelated labels, such as Joe Rogan, who is a talk show actor, a UFC commentator, and a host; Naval, an angel investor, a Twitter philosopher, and a host. In today’s world, we don’t need specialists, we need creators with multiple identities.
2. If you want to have peak expressiveness, you must have a peaceful mind.
3. The 8-hour workday system of the Industrial Revolution does not apply to today’s mental workers. Mental workers should train-sprint-rest-evaluate, and repeat the cycle like an athlete.
4. Society will always create new jobs, and the jobs replaced by machines and artificial intelligence are basically jobs that do not require creativity. While we cannot predict how many new jobs will be created in the future, it is certain that those jobs that are repetitive and do not require creativity will inevitably be replaced by automation.
5. Find a comfortable place, sit down, close your eyes, do nothing, and let your mind wander freely without interfering. Meditation is that simple.
6. No matter how rich or high-ranking you are, if someone tells you that you have to come and work somewhere, you are not a free person, you are not rich enough.
7. Find a job that others see as drudgery, but which you yourself enjoy doing.
8. Your most authentic resume is a list of the hardships you’ve suffered in your life.
9. Most of what we know comes from memory and recitation, not comprehension.
10. Read to satisfy one’s intellectual curiosity and curiosity, not to finish it.
11. Happiness is a choice, if you consider yourself a smart person, why don’t you understand how to achieve happiness?
12. The most powerful people in the world right now are the people who write the algorithms for Facebook, Twitter, and Google, who control how and what information people receive, and who create today’s social culture.
13. We are bombarded with countless information every day, humans have been controlled by algorithms and codes, and the only solution is to go offline.
14. The biggest problem with humans is that they can’t be alone in the house for thirty minutes alone.
15. There is no standard answer about the meaning of life. People will constantly understand themselves in the process of pursuing this answer. You can also take this action throughout your life as the meaning of your life.
16. The best way to get out of the competition is to be your truest self.
17. Low-key and rich > Famous but poor.
18. There are two addictions that are hard to quit: heroin and monthly wages.

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1. Naval makes money to achieve time freedom so he can focus on what is more important to him. Money can solve all money problems, but not all your problems.
2. Naval’s idols are all scientists, and he especially favors Richard Feynman , because he is a knowledgeable and funny man. Recommend reading Feynman’s “Don’t Be Funny, Mr. Feynman!” “Why Do You Care What Others Think”.
3. Naval wakes up first thing every morning is 60 minutes of meditation, which is the most important thing to him. Meditation Naval talks about is not formally sitting there motionless, but creating an opportunity for yourself to examine your thoughts and emotions by being alone with yourself. Other ways to examine yourself include seeing a psychologist, reading philosophy books, and taking long walks.
4. The philosophers Naval recommends are Schopenhauer, Osho, Kapil Gupta and Anthony de Mello. The purpose of reading these philosophy books is not to understand, but to be inspired in the process of reading, so as to return to the self-level to examine.
5. Naval believes that cryptocurrency is one of the greatest inventions in human history. Since the outbreak, Naval has observed a large number of people turning to cryptocurrencies to protect their assets.
6. Naval concludes that all self-help type books have the same theme: play a long game. Life would be much simpler if everyone could take a long-term view.
7. The power of compound interest is great, manifested in wealth accumulation, relationships, and physical health.
8. Naval believes that life is a game: the game of finding a good job, the game of finding a good partner, these are multi-player games; but the essence of life is actually a single-player game. Multiplayer games are full of competition. Once you win the game, the game is actually over, but your single-player game is a game that runs through your life. How to play this game well is worth thinking about.
9. “Appropriately looking at your life will make you completely change the way you live. It will make you leave existing relationships, it will make you reflect on the boundaries between people, it will make you quit your job, it will make you change Eating habits will make you change the kinds of books you read, and you will spend more time with yourself. If you don’t make any changes, you’re not looking at yourself well enough.”
   Always remember: an unexamined life is not worth living .

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1. Naval believes that now is the golden age of artistic creation, anyone can rely on the power of the Internet to create and disseminate. At the same time, people also face the problem of screening content.
2. The core of creating content is not to be limited by the times. If you want the content to spread for a long time, you must first choose a topic that is evergreen. Naval believes that trending topics on social media are the most time-wasting reads, and that there is no value in studying social sciences (natural sciences get feedback from reality, while social sciences get feedback from society, which is political science in disguise).
3. Bitcoin is the currency experiment of the general trend, and Ethereum is the unstoppable application experiment. Naval believes that societies powered by blockchain technology will be decades ahead of others.
4. If you don’t actively choose your beliefs, others will make the choice for you (parents, society, and surroundings).
5. Naval believes that the current American society is suppressing freedom of speech, freedom of movement and freedom of innovation. These are the foundations of America’s founding, and if they continue, America’s development will be limited.
6. The current development of the Internet is gradually weakening the power of organizations and institutions, and empowering individuals. In the media world, high-quality journalists use tools like Substack to establish themselves, and they make a living by building relationships with readers directly, writing articles and building paid communities. Big news media companies are facing a brain drain crisis, and readers will turn to support creators who can consistently produce quality content (an ad should be inserted at this time, welcome to my CY CIRCLE :))
7. We are about to usher in a social media platform built with blockchain technology. The blockchain has a built-in payment function, and readers can support their favorite creators; creators can establish a direct relationship with readers; blockchain is an open-source technology, and anyone can participate in mixing and resolution.
8. The pursuit of truth is the beginning of a happy life. In life, any decisions and lifestyles that are not true to the id will lead to suffering.

1. “The Beginning of Infinity” expounds the famous philosopher Karl Popper’s theory of what science is, and covers other disciplines such as philosophical thought, epistemology, quantum mechanics, multiverse theory, and mathematics. Naval says that over the past decade, Deutsch and Taleb’s books have shaped the way he sees the world. Most mental models are nothing new, but the insights of these two authors opened up his mind and gave him a deeper understanding of the “real world.”
2. One of Naval’s life beliefs is “Nullius in verba”, which is the motto of the Royal Society, written in Latin, which means “do not trust anyone’s words”, encouraging people to challenge authority and think independently about the truth.
3. Learning some basic theories can help you better understand the world: – Quantum theory – Principles of computing – Theories of natural selection and evolution – Epistemology, the individual’s view of knowledge.
4. Naval believes that reading should not be based on quantity, but choose 100 books and read them repeatedly. He is currently studying two of Deutsch’s books, The Infinite Beginning and The Context of the Real World, and has bought all editions (paperback, hardcover, and audiobook).
5. Deutsch is proficient in mathematics, physics and philosophy, and is optimistic about how the world will evolve. He believes that human beings have the ability to understand reality, that everything that does not violate the laws of physics can happen and problems can be solved. Humans are good explainers, and we keep iterating on old theories with better explanations to understand the world. The universe is a learning resource at our disposal.
6. Humans change the world through knowledge. Human beings can use the mundane things in nature to create civilization. The laws of physics can help us explain everything we see in the universe, but they cannot explain the emergence of Manhattan. How to explain the birth of civilization? We must go beyond explaining only natural phenomena to include human actions and choices. If we really want to understand the universe, we need to consider the existence of humans.
7. Hawking believed that humans were nothing more than chemical dregs on a medium-sized planet. But Deutsch disagrees with him. He believes that based on our current knowledge reserves, humans are the only creatures in the universe that can transform reality through the use of knowledge. The development of knowledge knows no boundaries, and we cannot predict the future prospects of knowledge development. By the nature of knowledge, knowledge creates the unknown, and if you can predict it, you already have a way to invent it.
8. The information itself has no value unless it is processed and used by the receiving end. Humans can do this.
9. Good scientific explanations are testable and falsifiable. But just because a theory can be falsified doesn’t mean there is a good explanation behind it. For example, someone tells you that eating 1 kilogram of grass can cure a cold. This can be tested and falsified, but there is no good explanation behind it. A good explanation means that it cannot be easily overturned and changed, and it needs to be precise. The ancient Greeks explained the changing of the seasons through various myths, but the scientific explanation is the result of the earth’s revolution around the sun. The former can replace the name of the god, and the latter is an unalterable fact.
10. Humans can use knowledge to continuously update and iterate old cognitions. We are in an infinite beginning stage, and the universe has no ultimate truth. 11. At the heart of particle physics are elementary particles. We used to think of atoms as elementary particles until we discovered nuclei and electrons; now we say quarks are elementary particles, but we will find even smaller particles by continuing to probe. Mathematics is considered to be the discipline that creates truth, but there are also unsolved mysteries and errors.
11. All knowledge is based on our current cognition, how can we be sure that the axiom is right? Questioning all assumptions leads to real progress. Einstein questioned the laws of the geometry of two-dimensional space and invented general relativity.
12. There is a paradox in fundamental physics: what are the fundamental properties of our real world? Quantum theory shows that things are discrete. There is the smallest indivisible particle from which everything else arises; general relativity holds the opposite view, that things, including time and space, are continuous and infinitely divisible. Physicists are currently trying to resolve this contradiction by unifying quantum theory and general relativity. (Eric Weinstein is said to have found the “Theory of Everything”, but I didn’t understand what he said with my IQ. If you are interested, you can study it yourself https://geometricunity.org/ )
13. Zeno’s paradox is easily falsified in real life. We do not live in an abstract world of pure mathematics, but in a world bound by the laws of physics.
14. Mathematicians think they can break free from the laws of physics, but no, even their brains are bound by the laws of physics. The computers we create are also bound by the laws of physics. Maybe jumping out of the current laws of physics can help us prove some other theorems, but it doesn’t make sense.
15. Uncertainty, randomness, and probability are all subjective. When you roll the dice, the outcome is uncertain for you, but not for the universe. According to quantum theory, anything that can happen can happen. The current best explanation for the double-slit experiment is the existence of a multiverse.
16. Talking about the unobservable always raises objections, but no one has ever seen a living dinosaur. Everything about dinosaurs is inferred from fossils, and it is the stories behind them that make people believe in dinosaurs. No one has actually seen the core of the sun, but we can deduce what happens in the stellar nuclear fusion. The results of most scientific experiments are detected and deduced by instruments, not what we see with our own eyes.
17. The history of science witnesses the iteration of human knowledge systems and the understanding of reality: geocentric theory – heliocentric theory – the solar system is only one of billions of stars – the Milky Way is one of hundreds of billions of galaxies – multiverse theory.
18. Humans are obsessed with explaining the world around them inductively, using past experience to predict the future. Just because a phenomenon occurs repeatedly does not mean that it will continue to occur in the future. If a biologist had observed only white swans in Europe, he might have predicted that all swans were white, but he would be wrong, Western Australia has a group of black swans of the same genus as European white swans. The black swan proves the loophole of induction. Another example is observing the sunrise. If you see the sun rising every day, do you predict that the sun will rise as usual tomorrow? If you move to Antarctica, you won’t see the sunrise for months. Another example is a turkey being fed every day, perhaps feeling that the owner will do it forever until Thanksgiving.
19. Science does not aggregate events that happened in the past and assume that they will happen again in the future. Science is all about finding plausible explanations.
20. The essence of science lies in trial and error, making bold hypotheses, and then testing them through experiments. Good scientific explanations are testable, verifiable, and hard to change. Einstein said he was no smarter than most people, and it was curiosity and imagination that guided him along the way, and he needed to use both to explain what he observed.
21. The purpose of science is to explain our world, even if it is impossible to predict with certainty what will happen in the future. Science never ends and we should always be open to new ideas and explanations. **In our infinite ignorance, all are equal. ** Even those who claim to be experts in a field know nothing about things beyond their field. You never know where the next great idea will come from, and students can even challenge the authority of experts.
22. We rely on induction to predict that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be created in the future, and infer that as AI develops, they will soon be able to think for themselves. Similar inferences are that humans are destroying the planet, and the growing population will lead to the demise of humanity. But human development is not linear, and it doesn’t make sense to predict the future in a linear way. We are forced to be pessimists because the risk of destruction is simply too great. From an evolutionary point of view, the genes of pessimists are more likely to be passed down. For example, if you hear a movement around you, you are optimistic and think that it is just a sign of trouble. If you are right, there is nothing to lose, but if you are wrong (Tiger haunts) and you’re done.
23. Intellectuals are often rewarded for holding pessimistic views. Explaining what is going on and how harmful they are seems to be the seriousness of scholarship. But entrepreneurs who advance human society are rewarded for their optimism that there is a solution. So far, most pessimistic predictions of disaster have been wrong. Pessimists deny that we can solve problems through technology and innovation.
24. Being a rational optimist is the way out for humanity. The reason why we face so many problems is that the knowledge base is not broad enough. It is only by inspiring creativity that better explanations can be suggested or better ways to improve human life.

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– Naval believes that cryptocurrency is one of the greatest inventions in human history. Since the outbreak, Naval has observed a large number of people turning to cryptocurrencies to protect their assets.

– Naval concludes that all self-help books have the same theme : play a long game. Life would be much simpler if everyone could take a long-term view. The power of compound interest is great, manifested in wealth accumulation, relationships, and physical health.

– Naval believes that life is a game: the game of finding a good job, the game of finding a good partner, these are multi-player games; but the essence of life is actually a single-player game. Multiplayer games are full of competition. Once you win the game, the game is actually over, but your single-player game is a game that runs through your life. How to play this game well is worth thinking about.

– Naval’s idols are all scientists, and he especially prefers Richard Feynman , because he is a learned and funny guy. Recommend reading Feynman’s “Don’t Be Funny, Mr. Feynman!” “You Care What Others Think”.

– Naval does a 60-minute meditation first thing in the morning, which he says is the most important thing to him. Meditation Naval talks about is not formally sitting there motionless, but creating an opportunity for yourself to examine your thoughts and emotions by being alone with yourself. Other ways to examine yourself include seeing a psychologist, reading philosophy books, and taking long walks.

– A healthy body, a peaceful mind, and a full sense of happiness cannot be bought, but earned by oneself.

– The most unrealistic fantasy is that there is something in the world that will make you happy forever.

– Our time on earth is just a flick of a finger, so we’re not worth mentioning at all, everything we do doesn’t last long, so you die, everything you do is gone, and your thoughts don’t Re-exist, your children will perish, the whole earth will perish, and so will the sun, and everything will.

– I don’t plan, I tend to live in the moment, free myself and enjoy the moment.

– Desire is an unhappy contract you made with yourself, and the contract deadline is the moment when your desire is fulfilled.

– All the important things in life benefit from compound interest: money, relationships and habits.

– Human beings are “habit machines”. Learning how to break old bad habits and cultivating good habits is the most important skill for human beings to learn.

– Think fundamentally, learn to use “first principles” to explain problems, forget old social norms, and control your emotions.

– Reality is neutral and everything depends on how we define our own reality. Heaven and hell are in one’s own mind.

– To avoid the harm of insults, stop exaggerating the power of praise.

– Life is a stand-alone game, you need to find your own way of playing, understand your own desires and goals you want to achieve, and establish your own beliefs in life and ways of looking at things.

– No one on the internet cares if there is a cat or a dog behind the screen, people care what you output.

– Good idea + execution is the secret of success for Naval and other self-made entrepreneurs. Those “fake entrepreneurs” who always complain that they have no capital and connections are all looking for excuses.

– There is no unified meaning of life in the world, and if there is one, then we will all be slaves to that meaning. Since there is no standard answer to the meaning of life, create a meaning for yourself and write your own life story.

– You can’t have everything, but you will get what you want most. See your desires clearly and find out the source of your desires. Those who know the meaning of life can bear the weight of life.

– 9 to 5 is modern slavery, and wages are addictive poison.

– The person most deceives is himself. Always examine your own life and find your “truth”.

– Most of the physical hypotheses seem crazy at first, such as quantum mechanics and the multiverse, but are gradually confirmed by science, and there will be more such examples in the future.

– In today’s society, there is no shortage of information and truth, but the unity of knowledge and action. If you don’t integrate theory into practice, that’s not your knowledge and wisdom.

– A good social environment accepts people making mistakes and provides timely feedback.

– Science is to use what we know to explain the unknown. There is no eternal truth in the world, only the truth that has not been falsified yet.

– Sit down and think about your life five years ago, what advice would you give to you then? Then think about your life ten years ago, what advice would you give to your then self now? You are your own best therapist, and you will find that no matter how your life changes, some of your behavior patterns will repeat, some unresolved problems will always emerge, and it is time to start from the source to solve the essential problems.

– Life is not a zero-sum game, the universe provides us with infinite resources, what we need to do is to keep innovating and learn to use these resources.

– Train yourself to be a trial-error-correction machine, the only way to the “truth”.

– Naval believes that now is the golden age of artistic creation, anyone can rely on the power of the Internet to create and disseminate. At the same time, people also face the problem of screening content.

– The core of creating content is not to be limited by the times. If you want the content to spread for a long time, you must first choose a topic that is evergreen. Naval believes that trending topics on social media are the most time-wasting reads, and that there is no value in studying social sciences (natural sciences get feedback from reality, while social sciences get feedback from society, which is political science in disguise).

– Bitcoin is the trending monetary experiment, and Ethereum is the unstoppable application experiment. Naval believes that societies powered by blockchain technology will be decades ahead of others.

– If you don’t actively choose your beliefs, others will make choices for you (parents, society and surroundings).

– The current development of the Internet is gradually weakening the power of organizations and institutions, and empowering individuals. In the media world, high-quality journalists use tools like Substack to establish themselves, and they make a living by building relationships with readers directly, writing articles and building paid communities. Large news media companies are facing a brain drain crisis, and readers will turn to creators who can consistently produce quality content.

– We are about to welcome a social media platform built with blockchain technology.区块链有内置的支付功能，读者可以支持喜欢的创作者；创作者也可以与读者建立直接关系；区块链是开源的技术，任何人都可以参与混编和决议。

– 追求真理是开启幸福生活的开端。在生活中，任何不忠于本我的决策和生活方式，都将导致痛苦。
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