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Naval
Personal blog · nav.alphilosophybusiness
Naval is a personal blog at nav.al about philosophy and business. Since 2019, 78 different Hacker News readers have linked it 163 times, most often “How to get rich without being lucky (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 12 of 34 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Naval Ravikant's blog for the 'How to Get Rich' tweetstorm and podcast transcripts, plus posts on long-term compounding, happiness and desire. Many comments cite it as support for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 34 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to get rich without being lucky (2019)12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2019-12-25
- Naval Interviews David Deutsch (2023)6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-02-11
- The Box3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24
- Build a Team that Ships (2012)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-19
- Happiness3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-14
- The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-05
- The Beginning of Infinity3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-03
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-27
- How to get rich without getting lucky (2018)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-06
- Learn to Sell, Learn to Build3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-11-21
What Hacker News says?
Some good ones: http://avc.com/ http://paulgraham.com/ http://www.moserware.com/ https://believermag.com/ https://blogmaverick.com/ https://fs.blog/ https://juliagalef.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://nav.al/ https://sive.rs/ https://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/ https://vitalik.ca/ https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/ https://www.metafilter.com/ https://xkcd.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Groups never admit failure as a story · 485 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.openstartuplist.com/ Open Startup List blog https://tinyprojects.dev/blog tiny projects blog http://hummusrezept.de/ food recipes blog https://nav.al/ Tech investments blog
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted How to get rich without getting lucky (2018) as a story · 392 points
HN discussion"How to Get Rich" by Naval Ravikant https://nav.al/rich Also maybe not life-changing, but absolutely gave me a lot to think about that I found incredibly rewarding and enjoyable.
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on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted How to get rich without being lucky (2019) as a story · 339 points
HN discussionnope, not only this guys examples are bad but he just tries too hard to be a contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. i called him that & he blocked me [1] for some reason. probably there's some truth in it that he got hurt. his examples are so bad. i've read paul graham's essays, naval's thread & alex hormozi's $100m offers book & all are quite good & easy to understand. naval's thread is a big hard but he has…
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on “No More “Insight Porn””Submitted Finding Time to Invest in Yourself as a story · 195 points
HN discussionThe risk of focusing on more transient relationships is that in the long run you won't reap the benefits of compounding interest, which is arguably where all the best stuff in life comes from: https://nav.al/long-term
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on “Is this the end of social networking?”Submitted Build a Team that Ships (2012) as a story · 173 points
HN discussionFeeling the same pain of walking through the creator's hell. Heard somewhere we are not supposed to be happy and absent minded. Staying on hard side of things shapes us and make complete. I'm not sure if this helps, but I’ve personally stopped stressing about outcomes, "get rich quick" schemes, or being in the perfect moment. The journey is what truly matters. I use my own tools for consulting and eventually outsour…
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on “Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith”Submitted If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy? as a story · 144 points
HN discussionTyler Cowen interviews Sam Altman — https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-sam-... Naval’s “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time” (and the whole series) — https://nav.al/renting-time The Portal: Werner Herzog — https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eua5iPUKw6Y
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on “Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?”Submitted How to Get Rich (2019) as a story · 94 points
HN discussionNaval has a great definition which I agree with. Happiness Is Peace in Motion Peace is happiness at rest https://nav.al/peace-motion Another less liked person, haha is that Andrew Tate knob, and while for a knob, he does have some good ideas, one of them is something along the lines of, I dont need to be happy, I dont even think about it, as long as there are no problems, I am happy, if there are problems I am unhap…
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on “Why aren't smart people happier?”Submitted How to Angel Invest, Part 2 as a story · 79 points
HN discussionWas also quoted by Naval Ravikant's podcast with Nivi, based on his Tweet storm by the title of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75tUgLxzE7Q . The entire Podcast can be listened to here; https://nav.al
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on “The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about”Submitted Happiness is more like poetry than algorithms as a story · 75 points
HN discussionNaval Ravikant has a small post about this here: https://nav.al/kelly-criterion I first heard about it from him. He summarizes it as follows: > Naval: The Kelly criterion is a popularized mathematical formulation of a simple concept. The simple concept is: Don’t risk everything. Stay out of jail. Don’t bet everything on one big gamble. Be careful how much you bet each time, so you don’t lose the whole kitty.
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on “Kelly Criterion”Submitted Aliens might just be too far away as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI was listening to a podcast with Naval and David Deutsch yesterday. They talked about this. He said these kind of studies are kind of pointless. Yes. It's likely twins will more or less end up with same outcomes in life. Because they look the same and society has a tendency to treat people who look certain in certain way. But that does not mean what they can do in life is limited by their genes. What they think pla…
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on “Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?”Submitted Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution as a story · 44 points
HN discussionNaval - "how to get rich" is truly a masterpiece. https://youtu.be/1-TZqOsVCNM . Transcript: https://nav.al/rich
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?”Submitted The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction (2020) as a story · 39 points
HN discussionDriving, for me, is a massive exercise in being mindful. My goal, however, is not to mind the suffering of others but instead, to take those inputs, not associate with them, and let them go. For instance, some driver doesn't want to get in the queue at the back, so they drive up and cut over in front of me or a car or two up. There are a lot of thoughts on that that could go through your mind. These range from "no f…
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on “How Bad Are Things? (2015)”Submitted Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI dearly hope it becomes a movie. It reminded me of Naval Ravikant idea, except Ravikant was talking about money and Chiang wasn't: "In 1,000 parallel universes, you want to be wealthy in 999 of them. You don’t want to be wealthy in the 50 of them where you got lucky. We want to factor luck out of it." ( https://nav.al/rich )
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on “Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize”Submitted Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It as a story · 28 points
HN discussionWhat Naval was talking[0] about is that you start to know whom to trust when playing the long game, and people start to trust you in return. Which is exactly what causes those quiet exceptions to be handed out. While it does not seem to be ‘fair’, this is how long term game actually looks like. [0] - https://nav.al/long-term
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on “Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit”Submitted One Einstein Is Worth a Legion of PhD Drones as a story · 22 points
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