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Naval Ravikant on Building Wealth
It's been five years since the Almanack of Naval Ravikant was published.
I spent the day with Naval expanding on key ideas from the book. We recorded hours of that conversation to share with you.
This episode is a portion of that long conversation that talks about Building Wealth
You can purchase the new expanded edition with nearly 4 hours of new material on Audible here:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Almanack-of-Naval-Ravikant-Audiobook/B0FBCP1JWJ
00:00 Defining Wealth
03:00 Knowledge as the True Multiplier
09:00 Ethics of Wealth Creation & Capitalism
15:00 Progress, Optimism & Conjecture
21:00 Scale, Governance & Morality
27:00 Products, Knowledge & Hard-to-Vary Designs
36:00 Closing Reflections
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