BookThinkers: Life-Changing Books 63. Eric Jorgenson: Author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Jul 2, 2021
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Entrepreneurship As Family Tradition
- Eric grew up in a family business and treated entrepreneurship as a normal career path.
- He sold candy and gave rides as a kid, learning small-scale sales and initiative early on.
Evergreen: A Self‑Taught MBA
- Eric created the Evergreen blog as a weekly self-administered MBA to learn business concepts rapidly.
- He synthesized resources into 10-minute overviews and built proof of work by publishing consistently for years.
A Tweet Sparked The Almanack
- A tweet validating Eric's idea made Naval retweet and offer support, turning a small project into a major effort.
- Eric then assembled over a million words of source material and condensed it into the final almanac.