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

The last kind of luck is the weirdest, hardest kind, where you build a unique character, a unique brand, a unique mindset, which causes luck to find you.

The final form of leverage is brand new—the most democratic form. It is: “products with no marginal cost of replication.” This includes books, media, movies, and code.

The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up this idea of problems. [77]

To make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally obsessed with something.

Who cares? I’m going to die anyway.

Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.

Mental models are really just compact ways for you to recall your own knowledge. [78]

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

As a result of so many changes, compassionate care is all too often being replaced by institutional care characterized by electronic medical records (EMRs), coding, and algorithms.