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Naval Ravikant

author · in 21 sources (2020–2023)

Works: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, The Naval Podcast

Speaks in 7 sources; this page lists what is said about them.

Sources by year: 2020: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2022: 10 · 2023: 4

Also known as: Naval

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

money buys back time (2) · unfair advantage (3) · Tim Ferriss (5) · The E-Myth (2) · The 4-Hour Workweek (3) · Gary Vaynerchuk (2) · Derek Sivers (2) · The Tim Ferriss Show (2) · Audible (3) · stoicism (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2023

2022

  • 2022-01-31 · 20 Podcasts That Changed My Life (and Business) — Ali first heard of Naval Ravikant on The Knowledge Project, in an episode packed with value. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-02-04 · How to Make Money Online — recommendation: David Perell found his unfair advantage in what comes naturally to him but is hard for others, citing Naval Ravikant: do what looks like work to others but feels like play to you. — 00:17:04
  • 2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — Naval Ravikant (quoted): Naval Ravikant talks about setting an aspirational hourly rate, apparently $5,000 an hour even when he was young, and not doing anything that makes you less than that. (hedged) — 00:15:27
    • Ali finds Naval Ravikant's $5,000 aspirational hourly rate excessive and does not think he would have gained much from following that advice when he was younger. (hedged) — 00:15:27
  • 2022-03-03 · How To Start a YouTube Channel - Beginner’s Guide to YouTube — recommendation: Ali calls The Almanack of Naval Ravikant an amazing book and cites Naval Ravikant: you can escape competition through authenticity. — 00:24:52
  • 2022-03-21 · The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books — Ali: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is probably the Kindle book Ali has highlighted most: he felt he was highlighting every sentence. (hedged) — 00:10:04
  • 2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali: For his own unusual career, Ali would aim at a combination of Tim Ferriss, Naval Ravikant, Ryan Holiday, Cal Newport and Derek Sivers. — 00:19:46
  • 2022-06-14 · I Read 2,216 Resumes. Here’s How You Stand Out 🚀 — recommendation: Naval Ravikant (quoted): Naval Ravikant says that if he were broke in a new city he would build up a portfolio and offer to work for people for free for a month or several weeks. — 00:04:51
  • 2022-07-26 · 28 Life Lessons from 28 Years in 28 Minutes — Naval Ravikant (quoted): Naval Ravikant, as Ali puts it, would say that retirement is when you are not sacrificing today for the hope of a better tomorrow. — 00:21:07
  • 2022-09-24 · How to Retire in 10 Years (starting with $0) — Ali: In medical school Ali planned mini-retirements from medicine with tech startups on the side; with more financial success from his businesses, channel and investments he moved to perpetual retirement, from Naval Ravikant's Almanack. — 00:02:55
    • Naval Ravikant (quoted): Naval Ravikant writes that retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow: when today is complete in and of itself, you are retired. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-11-17 · How to Become a Digital Nomad — Ali: Code leverage, in Naval Ravikant's analogy: code is like little robots doing your bidding; customers sign up from anywhere, and serving 1,000 customers takes little more effort than serving ten. — 00:07:22
  • …and 3 statements more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

2021

  • 2021-07-28 · How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time — Ali: Using Naval Ravikant's idea of an effective hourly rate, Ali put his own at around $30 an hour and saw that four to eight hours of editing per video was not the most value he could add to the business. (hedged) — 00:05:36
  • 2021-09-08 · The Best Productivity Hacks of All Time — Ali: From Naval Ravikant, Ali takes the aspirational hourly rate: work out what your time is worth to you in dollars, then delegate what you do not enjoy when it costs less than that rate. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-10-03 · How to ‘Read’ 1000 Books a Year — Ali no longer reads to complete books but to satisfy his genuine intellectual curiosity, and he likes Naval's point that reading is not for signalling but for satisfying our own curiosity. — 00:05:36

2020

  • 2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: While and after listening to a podcast episode with Naval Ravikant and Samantha Ryan (as heard), Ali pulled quotes from it and turned each interesting point into an evergreen note. — 00:07:12
  • 2020-10-08 · How I Remember Everything I Read — Ali: One of Ali's evergreen notes lists four important things in life, money, love and relationships, mental health and happiness, and physical health, which he took from a podcast episode with Naval Ravikant. — 00:13:12
  • 2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — Naval Ravikant (quoted): Interviewed on a podcast, Naval Ravikant says most people would name four components of an ideal life: physical health, mental health and happiness, relationships, and money or work. — 00:06:20
    • Of Naval Ravikant's four components of an ideal life, Ali skews far too much toward money and career, and means to give more effort to physical health, mental health and relationships from the new year. (hedged) — 00:07:01
    • Naval Ravikant (quoted): Naval Ravikant's ideal life has three hobbies: one that as a by-product makes you money, one that keeps you healthy, and one that makes you smarter and more creative. — 00:07:01
  • 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: The work has been absolutely worth it for Ali because he enjoys it and it does not feel like work; he cites Naval Ravikant: find something that looks like work to others but feels like play to you. — 00:17:17
  • …and 1 statement more in 2020 — all statements of 2020