Naval Ravikant mentioned Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track by Richard P. Feynman 11 times

Start with The Beginning of Infinity. Then read Matt Ridley, Nick Szabo, David Deutsch, Nassim Taleb, Schopenhauer, Peter Thiel, Popper, Feynman, Art DeVany, Scott Adams, Jed McKenna. Recognize them when they challenge socially enforced mass-delusions with science and logic.

— Naval Ravikant

The books that I can read quickly, I don’t recommend. The books I recommend are ones that I savor, so the list doesn’t change much. Read and re-read everything by Deutsch, Taleb, Feynman, and Ridley. Come back when you’re done 😉.

— Naval Ravikant

There are also many notable exceptions - Feynman, Deutsch, many who worked on the Manhattan Project. There’s no trend that more science makes them more left. In fact, it’s the opposite. Faculties move from left to right as you move from social sciences to natural sciences.

— Naval Ravikant

Deutsch, Taleb, and Feynman mainly. Also Bohr, Schrödinger, Mandelbrot, Chait, Gödel, Rovelli, others (I know, some are mathematicians and some have never written a formal book on philosophy). On the non-physicist Western side, currently reading Schopenhauer.

— Naval Ravikant

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2019-08-17 on fs.blog

Matt Ridley, Neal Stephenson, Taleb, Borges, Ted Chiang, Anthony DeMello, Osho, J Krishnamurti, Harari, Asimov, Bradbury, Greg Egan, Feynman, Schrödinger, Bohr, Chris Alexander, the Durants, Darwin, Adam Smith, David Deutsch, Karl Popper, Douglas Hofstader, Douglas Adams

— Naval Ravikant

(Fool anyone line is originally from Feynman BTW, recommend reading him directly).

— Naval Ravikant

To answer your question - shortcut to Munger, M Ridley, Harari, Feynman, Darwin, J Krishnamurti. It'll be different next year ;-)

— Naval Ravikant

Feynman, Darwin, J Krishnamurti, Hitchens, Ridley, Harari, Aurelius, Seneca, Lao Tzu, Newton, Munger, Borges, D. Adams, Hesse...

— Naval Ravikant

Richard Feynman, I’ve been reading Perfectly Reasonable Deviations, and I’ve also been rereading Genius.

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2016-01-30 on tim.blog

I have a couple of core foundational values, and they’re not things that I explicitly developed. They’re just sort of you can look back after the fact and say oh yeah, I won’t compromise on those things. But now I realize how important honesty is. I learned that from a couple of different places. One is when I grew up, I wanted to be a physicist and I idolized Richard Feynman and I read everything by him, technical and nontechnical that I could get my hands on. He said: you must never, ever fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. So the physics grounding is very important because in physics, you have to speak truth. You don’t compromise. You don’t negotiate with people. You don’t try and make them feel better because if your equation is wrong, it just won’t work, whatever you’re doing. So I think the science background is important in that.

— Naval Ravikant

2015-08-08 on tim.blog