Smart Friends

#017 Chris Sparks: High-stakes Poker, the training regimen of a world-class mental athlete, and coaching the top 0.01%

#016 Kevin Espiritu: Bootstrapping Epic Gardening to 8 figures by mixing Media + D2C Biz models. Oh and Poker, Pink Pineapples, and Male Models

#015 David Perell: Intellectual Openness, Mental Models for Success, and Peculiar Ways of Looking at The World

#014 Dan Reecer: What Is Polkadot And Why It’s The Future of Web3

#013 Cliff Kuang: Optimizing User Interface And The Massive Opportunities Within Design

#012 Mitchell Baldridge: Defeating Taxes, Financial Planning, and Flipping A Bored Ape NFT for $250k

#011 Eric Jorgenson: Metagames, Feedback Loops and Transcending The Muggle World

#010 Codie Sanchez: Learning Leverage From Drug Cartels, Vanguard, And Goldman Sachs

#009 Track Zach Marshall Vol 1: From Navy SEAL To Marketplace Founder -- Future of Private Security

#008 Andrew Finn of G64 Ventures & Wait But Why: How To Acquire A Free Company And Knowing When To Eat A Shitburger

#007 Into the DAO: How Index Coop is building Crypto Index products

#006 Sean O’Connor: How Blockchains Make Transactions Costless, and How that Transforms Society

#005 Joe Hertler: Tapping Into Creative Genius & Pursuing Joy Through Creativity

#004 Jason Hitchcock: DeFi, NFTs, And The Metaverse

#003 Nick Huber: How to Leverage Twitter, an Abundance Mindset, and A Love of Chaos

#002 Andrew Wilkinson: Investing vs. Operating, De-risking Leverage, and The Best Part About Business

#001 Sky King: The Next Level of the Internet, Decentralization, and Becoming a Player in the Game of Life

Almanack of Naval bonus episode and next: Jorgenson’s Soundbox

The Almanack of Naval Epilogue: Recommended Reading

Naval on Philosophy

Naval Ravikant discusses philosophy, the meaning of life, and his personal values. He presents three answers to the question of life's meaning: it's personal, there is no inherent meaning, and life may be about accelerating the universe towards heat death. He emphasizes honesty, long-term thinking, peer relationships, ...