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Our reading notes on Naval Ravikant

• Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher

  In this long conversation Ravikant describes returning to books that continue to change how he thinks. He also talks about skimming and abandoning material. The section on reading is particularly useful if a queue of unfinished books is crowding out the decision you opened a book to make.

• Live in the Future

  Ravikant sits down with Garry Tan, Daniel Francis and Farbood Nivi. The publisher’s chapter list marks a discussion of novelty in writing at 14:25, then turns to how the founders imagine working in 2028 at 18:50. For an editor faced with a familiar-sounding draft, those four minutes offer a narrower listening assignment than the hour-long conversation.

• The AI Industrial Revolution

  Ravikant describes returning to coding through agents after years away. He says knowing the underlying engineering principles helped him use the tools without learning every new framework first. The transcript identifies the other founders by name, so a reader can follow where their experiences with real infrastructure differ.