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Part I: Character

Never Feel Self-Pity

1. Commencement Speech at USC — link to the YouTube Clip

2. Fooled by Randomness

Never Feel Like A Victim (Even If You Are)

3. Video Clip from the 2020 Daily Journal Annual Meeting

4. Video Clip from The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast #1309

How To Build Resilience

5. Jensen Huang at 2024 Economic Summit

There is Nothing To Lose

6. Make Something Wonderful

The World Is Not Driven by Greed, Is Driven by Envy…

7. Daily Journal Corporation 2022

8. The Joe Rogan Experience

You Can Only Make Progress When You’re Starting with The Truth

9. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Radical Acceptance (The Philosophy That Transformed Brad Jacobs’s Life)

10. How To Make a Few Billion Dollars

Leveraging The Power of Reality

11. The 50th Law

12. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, pages 96-98

13. The 50th Law, pages 32-34

You Can’t Plan to Meet The People Who Will Change Your Life

14. Make Something Wonderful

Choose your 5 Chimps Correctly

15. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

16. Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Meeting, year 2005

Always More Agency

17. Tweet by Andrej Karpathy

18. A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston

19. YouTube video

The (True) Definition Of Success

20. Commencement Speech at the American University of Beirut

Naval Ravikant: The Most Important Thing I Did to Become Successful

21. Naval on Periscope (2018)

22. The Tao of Seneca - Volume 1

Always Look Forward (You Are NOT Your Past)

23. Mohnish Pabrai’s Interview at Morningstar, The Investor’s Mind on December 1, 2023

24. “These LAWS OF POWER Will Change Your Future!” | Robert Greene

Ray Dalio on What Makes a “Shaper”

25. an episode of the Podcast The Joe Rogan Experience

26. How to Work Hard

Jeff Bezos: The 9 Questions To Live Your Best Life

27. Speech at Princeton University

Elon Musk on Being Useful

28. YouTube video

29. Elon Musk’s Speech on YC (2025)

30. In an interview with Lex Fridman

31. YPO Mosaic Chapter

Be In Love

32. My Conversation with Naval on Learning Happiness

33. Man’s Search for Meaning (book)

How Jensen Huang Wins by Feeling Inferior

34. The Nvidia Way, written by Tae Kim (book)

35. The Courage To Be Disliked, written by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (book)

36. Post on X

Shooting for the Moon

37. Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire, written by Andrew Wilkinson (book)

38. The 48 Laws of Power (book)

39. YouTube video

Part II: Wealth

Desire VS. Compulsion

40. How To Get Rich

41. “The Most Important Question of Your Life”

Become an Exponential Curve

42. Tim Ferriss (on Twitter)

43. “How to be Successful”

44. “How To Do Great Work”

45. spreadgreatideas.org

Play The Right Game (Leverage + Judgment)

46. Mark Jenney with Noah Kagan

47. Naval Ravikant on The Joe Rogan Experience

48. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Productize Yourself

49. Post on X

50. “What I’ve Learned from Users”

51. MasterClass

Don’t Overplan

52. straitjacket thinking!

53. Paul Graham

54. Allen & Company

55. Fireside Chat with Jeff Bezos

56. Acquired Podcast - Episode with Uber CEO

How To Be an Inventor (The Day-One Mindset)

57. Summit

58. Lex Fridman Podcast

59. Make Something Wonderful (book)

Be a Problem-Finder and Multi-disciplinary Thinker

60. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

61. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Jony Ive’s Biggest Lessons from Steve Jobs

62. Jony Ive on Vanity Fair

63. fs.blog

64. Mark and Jeff Bezos in conversation

Business Lessons from the Founder of Shake Shack

65. Setting the Table

66. YouTube video from the renowned VC investor Bill Gurley

The Truth About Working on a Team

67. How To Get Rich

How Evolution Powers Free Market Capitalism

68. Alchemy

69. Post on X

The Market is the Most Important Factor in a Startup’s Success or Failure

70. The Boron Letters

71. The Pmarca Blog Archive

72. “How To Be Successful”

Become a “Student of Markets”

73. Hackers and Painters (book)

74. The Boron Letters

75. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

76. The Boron Letters

77. YouTube video

How To Think About “Sales” (And Why Most People Underestimate It)

78. Zero To One

79. YouTube video

How To Follow a Non-Random Route To Success (And “Insuccess”)

80. Fooled by Randomness

81. Enchiridion (book)

Business Lesson from The Telephone And The Mac

82. Make Something Wonderful

What Would It Take to 10x Your Business Idea? (The Power of Thinking Big)

83. Brian Chesky’s New Playbook

84. A conversation with NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang

Problems are an Asset

85. How to Make a Few Billion Dollars (book)

What Nobody Tells You About Intelligence

86. Tweet by Nassim Taleb

87. Jeff Bezos - Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405

88. IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)

89. IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)

90. The Black Swan (book)

91. The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why (book)

92. any measure of “intelligence” w/o convexity is sterile

93. IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)

94. Tweet by Andrej Karpathy

95. YouTube video

96. YouTube video

97. How to Get Rich (book)

98. Tweet by Marc Randolph

45 Mental Models for Investing & Starting a Business

99. The talk at Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing

100. The talk at The UNO

101. speech at SXSW

Part III: Worldly Wisdom

How To Know If You Are On The Right Path

102. The Little Almanack

103. Jerry Seinfeld | Duke’s 2024 Commencement Address

104. A conversation with NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang

105. YouTube video

The Source of All Knowledge

106. The 50th Law

How To Tell If an Idea is Good or Bad?

107. Antifragile

How To Know If Someone is a Real Expert or Not

108. Antifragile

The Best Way To Learn Things (Learning Beyond Facts)

109. Charlie Munger at USC Business School in 1994

110. The Black Swan

111. YouTube video

Thinking in Limits

112. Elon Musk and Lex Fridman

The Power of Visual Thinking

113. Lex Fridman in conversation with Walter Isaacson

Decision Trees + Multi-Order Thinking

114. Poor Charlie’s Almanack

115. Mexican Fisherman, narrated by Mohnish Pabrai.

Never Mistake The Map for The Territory

116. The Black Swan

Develop an Anti-Education + Find Your Specific Knowledge

117. The Bed of Procrustes (book)

118. Nassim Taleb on developing an Anti-education

119. Naval Ravikant on Specific Knowledge

Brian Chesky’s “I Haven’t Made It Yet” Philosophy for Growth

120. In the Dwarkesh Podcast

121. Brian Chesky’s New Playbook

Journey VS Destination

122. Airchat Room - Journey vs. Destination

Being in Alignment

123. Zen and The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

124. Lecture at Boston College (2016)

125. The Snowball

The Dark Side Of Optimization

126. Tim Ferriss w/ Nassim Taleb and Scott Patterson

127. David Cameron in conversation with Nassim Taleb

128. Nassim Taleb in conversation w/ Daniel Kahneman

How To Be Rational & Objective

129. 2020 Daily Journal Annual Meeting

130. 1998 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

131. The 50th Law

How To Build an Antilibrary

132. Antifragile

How To Adopt a Real Stoic Life-Philosophy

133. definition

134. EconTalk w/ Russ Roberts

The Best Way To Take Feedback

135. Fooled by Randomness

Bet on the Timeless

136. Source: The Tim Ferriss Podcast

137. Fireside Chat with Jeff Bezos and Werner Vogels

The Framework To Eliminate Stress

138. Jeff Bezos Interview on Starting Amazon (2001)

Always Choose Substance over Prestige

139. Peter Thiel Speech at Stanford (2014)

Live Your Life as a Movie

140. Naval Ravikant on the Tim Ferriss Show

Solve for Happy (Engineer Your Path to Joy)

141. Mo Gawdat’s Happiness Formula (from timestamp 43:25 until the timestamp 49:05

142. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (book)

All Self-Help Boils Down To “Choose Long-term Over Short-term”

143. The Happy Body

144. Naval Ravikant - Rules to Make Better Decisions

Freedom and Equality: The Everlasting Enemies

145. The Lessons of History (by Will and Ariel Durant)

146. Economic Inequality (short version)

Freedom is Never Free

147. The Incerto

148. , by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

How To Become The Best At What You Do

149. Hackers and Painters

150. The Creative Act

151. The Creative Act

152. Startup Archive

How To Think “Outside The Box”

153. The Black Swan

154. The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why

155. Reid Hoffman Interview

The 7 Principles of Persuasion — How To Effectively Influence Others

156. Influence, by Robert Cialdini

Business Case - How Toy Stores Are Using the Consistency Bias to Boost their Sales

157. Influence

The Courage To Act (Powerful Lesson That Influenced a young Patrick Collison)

158. Reid Hoffman & Patrick Collison Fireside Chat

Breaking Out of EGO and BLIND SPOTS

159. The Black Swan (book)

160. Principles (book)

How To Make Hard Decisions Easy

161. CEO Coach Matt Mochary — Coaching Tim, Why Fear and Anger Give Bad Advice, and More

Be a Harsh Grader

162. Excerpt from his annual session with Dakshana scholars

The Green Lumber Fallacy

163. Nassim Taleb’s Talk at Google

164. Antifragile (book)

Living a Plotless Life

165. Antifragile (book)

166. How to Write Strikingly Well — Lee Child

167. How to Write Strikingly Well — Lee Child

168. Antifragile (book)

Elon Musk’s “Algorithm” to Build a Great Product

169. Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

33 Mental Models for Life

170. YouTube video

171. YouTube video

172. Zero to One (book)

173. Poor Charlie’s Almanack (book)

174. Poor Charlie’s Almanack (book)

175. Poor Charlie’s Almanack (book)

176. YouTube video

177. Make Something Wonderful

178. Meditations (book)

179. Post on X

Goals are for Losers. Have Systems instead.

180. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (book)

181. How to Do Great Work

182. How to Do Great Work