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Naval Ravikant evaluates 10,000 startups to find five ultimate winners to back.
“I would rather, my system is, I want to see 10,000 companies, and I want to pick 500 that have a shot of being huge, and then I want the option to double down on the five winners. I don't want to just look at a hundred companies and pick 10 that I think are wi…”
Naval Ravikant prioritizes physical health above his own happiness, family, and work.
“My number one priority in life, above my happiness, above my family, above my work, is my own health. And it starts with my physical health. And then second is my mental health, and then third is my spiritual health, and then it's my family's health, then it's…”
Naval Ravikant does not want to send his infant son to traditional school.
“I have a young infant son and I honestly, I don't want to send him to school.”
Ravikant: Reading routine relies on boredom and desire over strict discipline
“I'm not a very disciplined person, so I don't really set these hard and fast rules for myself. Because I, but the good news is I just love to read, and because I love to read, I, Whenever I'm bored and I have time, I just do it.”
Naval Ravikant is personally invested in approximately 200 different companies.
“I'm an investor personally in about 200 companies advisor to a bunch, on a bunch of boards.”
Naval Ravikant partners in a 2017 cryptocurrency fund holding Bitcoin and Ethereum.
“I'm also a small partner in a cryptocurrency fund, because I'm really into these coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Zcash, and so forth.”
Naval Ravikant uses Twitter as his primary note-taking system for reading insights.
“Actually, my note taking is Twitter. So, what I do is I read and read and read, and if I have some fundamental aha insight or concept, then what I like about Twitter is it forces me to distill that into a 140 characters and then I try and put it out there as a…”
Ravikant: Acknowledging business failures publicly prevents self-delusion
“So especially in business, if something isn't going well, I try to acknowledge that publicly. And I try to acknowledge it publicly in front of my co-founders and friends and co-workers, because that way then I'm not hiding it from anybody else. If I'm not hidi…”
Ravikant: Multi-year goal is deconditioning habituated responses for cleaner decisions
“I do View a lot of my goals over the next few years of unconditioning previous learned responses or habituated responses so that I can make decisions more cleanly in the moment without relying upon memory or prepackaged heuristics and judgments.”