Which actually clears the intention of why this almanac came out, he is productizing himself. It suffers from continuity and structure.Ĭoming to the content itself, one of Naval's philosophy is to 'productize yourself'. Hence it seems more like an overtly long blog based on random things a person said on twitter. He didn't go deeply into the topics discussed to understand the motivations of the person saying those things, questioned him or drilled down to the core underlying values. Eric Jorgenson has done a half-assed job of compiling lectures/tweets etc into a meaningful book. Of course the 'book' is free, since it is not a book at all. But the book has high ratings and is free, so you soldier on. Naval's accomplishment seems to be that he 'invested in Uber in 2014'.Ĭouple this with the cringey foreword by one of Naval's friend/associate ('maybe Naval will name his kid after me if I write this foreword', you are almost immediately put off. There is nothing that stands out from this almanac about him. But there are hundreds of thousands of such individuals in the world. He didn't have the privilege of money growing up and success has been built by hard work and persistence. They hadn't achieved a lot in life till then.Ĭoming to the book, Naval Ravikant seems like a person who has made it. With launch of Quora, I came across several such cringey questions related to people who got into IIT. Kids can become minor celebrities in their circles just by clearing the exam - which is no easy feat. In India, IITs are the premier technical institutions with around 1% acceptance rate and. I will tell you an anecdote before going into the review.

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