From the broad category of "business/life self help" I feel this book is not very helpful. Naval has obviously made it, most the book is kind of jerking off to that. The practical content of the book is common sense: excercise, value your time, don't be asshole, collect wealth and so on.The most useful part is the book recommendation list at the end.

A gem in hiding. I read Naval's tweets once, on 'Meditation-The art of doing nothing' & was moved. So when I stumbled upon this book I was already sold to give it a shot.Naval talks about things from the granular level. He covers the entire recipe of our existence: happiness, wealth, philosophy & saving our own selves. He reasons every action (for how things revolve in our world) and suggestion. I am in awe.

Whoever you are, you'll feel a change within yourself after reading this. For me, that's the biggest complement any art piece could receive. We must be grateful to Naval for sharing his wisdom in public domain. It's truly one of its kind. Read it to get some clarity in life.

If you have been following Naval for the last year or so, there is nothing new here. All the concepts, once very novel and insightful, have been paraded enough on tech twitter with 100s of blogs and tweetstorms. If you are someone who has been remotely in this space and has been following content of shane parish, tim ferris et al, you have probably read all of this in some form of the other. If not, you can find a lot of good content here. Try the free pdf, if it works for you, maybe go for it t...

This book is simply brilliant!All of Naval's greatest wisdom compiled into one book. Naval has the outstanding skill of explaining complex skills in a very easy way. Probably because as he says himself, he focuses on the basics and really tries to understand everything at a very fundamental level. I absolutely loved this book and will definitely re-read it in the future!

The content of this book is pure gold, 5 out of 5. I have some issues with editing and organizing the Naval's insights. I feel like it could've been much easier to read if there was more effort put into connecting and ordering them right.Web-version is full of typos, errors, and repetitions. Ebook versions seem to be a bit better (I switched half-way). Still, for every format, the structure of the book is chaotic and often feels disconnected. I know it is not supposed to be read back to back, bu...

I loved this book. It felt as if I were having tea with Naval. We exchanged pleasantries, and he imparted wisdom.

No doubt there are some nuggets of wisdom in here. They are, unfortunately, surrounded by dense forests of platitudes and broetry-like aphorisms that render the text hard for me to enjoy. The book describes a sense of self determinism that I feel resonates well with much of the audience, but to me it seems to come across more like the age-old boomer cry "if I could do it why can't you". That is in fact, how he starts out the book "you could strip away all my wealth and I could probably get it ba...

For a 200+ page book, I took quite a while. I guess the best reason I have for this delay can be explained through Naval Ravikant's own words:"Reading a book isn't a race—the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed."Clearly, this was one of the "better" ones. With each page enlightening me with new insights, whether on wealth, business, meditation, or philosophy, my mind was left in awe at the amount of wisdom this guy has.Aside from being a great businessman, investor, and decisi...

"Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. This is the "the-sooner-you-read-the-better" kind of book. The meaning of Almanack here is the diary.My Five Big Takeaways are :1. Understand how to create wealth2. Build judgment3. Learn the skills of decision making4. Learn to love to read5. Understand happiness is a choiceThe best part is Naval has prov

Insightful, short, actionable, deep. Has Jack's Butcher work in it. Reccomend it.

I cannot believe how great this book is. I was familiar with Naval through Tools of Titans, but reading this showed that he is so much more than a few pages - no matter how well written - can capture.This book is bound to be a classic, and the fact that Eric and Naval collaborated to release this for FREE, is amazing. For more social proof, Tim Ferriss even broke his iron rule of No Forewords to write the foreword to this book. There is no excuse for not picking this book up. There is something

Paraphrasing Charlie Munger's book title set a high bar. Naval Ravikant is one of the most lucid thinkers of Silicon Valley and I really enjoy reading his tweets and listening to him in interviews (the one with Tim Ferriss is a good example). But this is not a traditional book because he didn’t write it but it’s a compilation of his work made by Eric Jorgenson and illustrated by Jack Butcher. I follow them on Twitter from before and like their work so I was really interested in learning which wa...

(The free version of this book is available online in pdf, mobi and epub file format).This might just be the best book I've read this year.Self-help as a genre is rightly derided these days,but this is more than that, it's pure wisdom.This book is a compilation of some of the best tweets by Naval Ravikant, including the famous 'How to get rich' tweetstorm from 2018, and includes extra commentary from Naval. He explains his ideas and the reasoning behind them in simple,lucid text and lays out his...

Genre: Nonfiction/self help, business Main themes:☑️wealth ☑️happinessNote: the book talks about Naval Ravikant but from someone else’s perspective on the habits, likes and book recommendations of the said personality I needed a better clear perspective and I feel the presentation of the book could have been much betterNot for the beginners and occasional readers though it is easy to readA good book if you are looking for motivation and a little pick me up when you are feeling lowTip: Do not wor...

I will tell you an anecdote before going into the review. In India, IITs are the premier technical institutions with around 1% acceptance rate and .1% for the top 1000 ranks. Kids can become minor celebrities in their circles just by clearing the exam - which is no easy feat. With launch of Quora, I came across several such cringey questions related to people who got into IIT. They hadn't achieved a lot in life till then.Coming to the book, Naval Ravikant seems like a person who has made it. He

I'm not going to b*shit you, the life's philosophy of NR resonates with me a lot. Like 99% of cases. This book is nothing more or less, but the essence of this philosophy.Don't get me wrong - it's far less unique than one could think about: there are pieces of stoicism, entrepreneurial approach to the career, healthy approach to balance (in life, in general), praise for essentialism, etc. But Ravikant is a true master in getting to the point: expressing the quintessence of what he means in an ex...

(My initial rating of the book was 4/5, but the fact that I could receive the information condensed in a book format and for free from navalmanack.com , has compelled me to increase the rating to 5)The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s famous tweetstorms, podcasts and interviews. Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist (Twitter, Uber, Clubhouse are some of the companies where he has been the early-stage investor)The book is divided into two sections: Wealth a...

The thought that such a mind exists, and we can know about it, learn from it, grow from it: absolutely brilliant. Important takeaways (for me, for now)1. Health is key. Physical, mental, spiritual. 2. Anger may or may not serve others, but definitely disserves you. 3. Read, read, read. "Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else." Also reread. A 100 reread books is better than a 1000 "just read" ones. 4. Focus on one - then nurture & perfect. 5. The journey...

Loved, loved, loved this book. So much wisdom and good old common sense, all distilled from Naval's interviews, blog posts and tweet storms. A perfect gift for someone young, a book like this can transform the whole trajectory of someone's life in a meaningful way.I'm glad I read it now. I wish I read it much earlier.