Eric Jorgenson, product strategist and author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, shares his innovative journey of curating diverse content into a cohesive book. He discusses the challenges and creative constraints he imposed while transforming tweets, podcasts, and essays into structured insights on wealth and happiness. Eric emphasizes the value of side projects for personal growth and the importance of community engagement in the creative process. His reflections inspire aspiring creators to explore curation as a valid path to producing meaningful work.
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Navalmanac Origin
Eric Jorgenson tweeted about creating "The Book of Navalage," a curation of Naval Ravikant's wisdom.
Naval retweeted it, thousands of people expressed interest, and the project began.
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Navalmanac Overview
Eric Jorgenson curated Naval Ravikant's insights from diverse sources over a decade.
The resulting book, "The Almanac of Naval Ravikant," focuses on wealth and happiness.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Learning While Doing
Don't try to learn everything before starting a project.
Tackle obstacles as they arise; help or answers will emerge during the process.
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a compilation of Naval's thoughts on fundamental principles for happiness, wealth creation, decision-making, and personal growth. The book distills his insights from the last ten years into practical advice, guiding readers on how to walk their own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life. It emphasizes the importance of compound interest, leveraging resources, and productizing oneself. The book also delves into key aspects of life, including relationships, health, and purpose, offering a holistic approach to wealth and happiness.
The artist's way
a spiritual path to higher creativity
Ada Arbós Bo
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This book presents a comprehensive method for artists to recover their creativity from various blocks such as limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, and other inhibiting forces. It is designed to help individuals discover and develop their artistic potential, whether as writers, painters, poets, or musicians. The book emphasizes the connection between creativity and spirituality, providing step-by-step exercises to nurture creative expression as a consistent part of daily life.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger
Peter D. Kaufman
Originally published in 2005, Poor Charlie's Almanack is a collection of eleven talks delivered by Charles T. Munger between 1986 and 2007. Edited by Peter D. Kaufman, this book draws on Munger's extensive knowledge across various fields to provide a framework for rational and rigorous approaches to life, learning, and decision-making. It is renowned for its sharp wit and rhetorical flair, making it an essential read for investors, entrepreneurs, and anyone seeking to enhance their wisdom and critical thinking skills.
Principles
Ray Dalio
In 'Principles: Life and Work', Ray Dalio shares the principles he has developed over his career that have helped him achieve success. The book is divided into three sections: the first section explains how Dalio's principles were formed from his personal and professional experiences; the second section outlines life principles, such as embracing reality, being radically open-minded, and understanding the importance of pain and reflection in personal growth; and the third section focuses on work principles, including the use of radical truth and radical transparency to transform an organization. Dalio advocates for systematizing decision-making into algorithms, learning from failures, and building a culture where it is okay to make mistakes but unacceptable not to learn from them.
Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (also called Navalmanack). The Almanack is a collection of insight from Naval Ravikant that Eric curated from from Twitter, Podcasts, and Essays over the past decade. In this episode we talk about Eric’s process of creating the book, how he created his own constraints, how he managed to make progress while doing this as a side project, and why he believes Curation opens the door for more books like this.
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