#25: Eric Jorgenson – Creating a full-length book from Tweets, interviews, essays, and podcasts
Sep 15, 2020
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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.
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.