Naval Ravikant mentioned Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman 13 times

I loved him because Feynman was one of the first characters that I encountered that did science and serious work and was accomplished in so-called real life. He was a character, he was a happy person. He was deeply philosophical, he didn’t take himself nor life too seriously. He appreciated the mysteries of life, he appreciated living life and he had a lot of fun along the way. To me, he was like a full-stack intellectual hacker of life. And was just very inspirational to me as a kid, growing up.

— Naval Ravikant

2020-10-14 on tim.blog

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

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.”

— Naval Ravikant

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

Favorite Feynman book? I think, like, everybody... Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman is what sucks you in. They’re all good. I like Six Easy Pieces.

— Naval Ravikant

2018-01-20 on pscp.tv

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

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

Surely You Must be Joking, Mr. Feynman, it’s all bite sized little stories. You can skip around and read these great stories about the adventures of this curious character. And you can learn about the inner mindset and external state of someone who was absolutely brilliant, world shaking, earth shatteringly brilliant but also unconventional; lived their life the way they want. It’s not quite a sequel, but there’s a follow up book to Surely You Must be Joking, Mr. Feynman which is also good if you liked the first one. I love the title alone. It’s called, So What Do You Care What Other People Think?

— Naval Ravikant

2015-08-08 on tim.blog