How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):.

All of the desirable people - the ones that you actually want to work with, spend time with, or date - won’t apply for the job. They have to be identified from afar and hunted down.

Founders can delegate everything except recruiting, fundraising, strategy, and product vision.

Every single one. I cannot think of an exception. I should have gone back and just indexed them all based on their brilliance. By the way, that’s what Y Combinator does at scale, right? What a great mechanism. So it works. If people stick at it for 20 years, it works. Now you.

Nivi: Let’s talk about one more tweet which I liked when I first saw it, or I might have retweeted it. I think people retweet things when they see something that they haven’t figured out how to say yet, but they knew in their head, but it’s just.

Blame yourself for everything, and preserve your agency.

Make God your only boss.

RT @akirathedon: @naval “Become the best in the world at what you do….Keep redefining what you do….Until this is true…” .

Looks like the AI doomsday cult is dying down. Several more doomsday cults to go.

There’s only one @akirathedon.

RT @arjunkhemani: .@naval: Are we running out of resources?. No, we’ve never run out of a single resource, ever. There’s not a single resou….

AI lets you search by concepts instead of by keywords.

There is no demand for “average” content. Media is a winner-take all market. The AI-generated Library of Babel doesn’t have much value beyond the people steering and curating it. This is also why browsing feeds is a waste of time.

Nivi: We’re hiring an editor for the Naval Podcast, and Naval is also hiring a chief of staff. If you’re not interested in either of these, you can move on to the next episode. Let me give you some details on both of them. First, the editor for the Naval.

Hiring a Podcast Editor and a Chief of Staff

Marketing is an open problem. People try to solve marketing in different ways. Some people will create videos, some people will write and/or tweet. Some people will literally stand outside with a sandwich board. Some people will go make a whole bunch of.

You Have to Enjoy It a Lot

Every great engineer is also an artist.

Good teams throw away far more product than they keep.

Live a disciplined life, spontaneously.