Naval Ravikant, On Reading
Ravikant and Ferriss are avid readers so a majority of the podcast and topics discussed revolved around reading. Ravikant says “real education begins in the library, begins with books. If you can learn to like to read, you never need to go to school.”
“If you takeaway one thing from this podcast, figure out how to read. There are many skills and gifts that people have in life and the great thing about reading is you can use that to pick up any new skill. Learning how to learn is the ultimate meta-skill”
Ravikant is wise in his emphasis on reading as an act, over books as a medium. He sees books as historically being long simply to justify the need to cut up a tree, whereas “in reality a lot of the wisdom in these books can be encapsulated in a few pages.” The lifehack he’s developed to efficiently deal with books has been to treat “books as throwaway blog posts” feeling “no obligation to finish any book.”
Ravikant enthusiastically describes blogs as an “under-appreciated resource” that are“a very efficient source of information” with two of his favorites being Melting Asphalt by Kevin Simler and the Dilbert Blog by Scott Adams. Melting Asphalt he recommends “for anyone who is intellectually and scientifically curious” and describes Adams’ blog as “absolutely brilliant posts” specifically recommending, The Day You Became a Better Writer.
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