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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (2020)

Magrathea Publishing. Eric Jorgenson collected ten years of Naval’s tweets, essays and interviews and published them with his permission. As its subtitle says, it covers wealth and happiness. Tim Ferriss wrote the foreword and Jack Butcher did the illustrations. It is free as a PDF and e-book at navalmanack.com, made as a public service, and Naval takes no money from it. A hardcover edition followed from Authors Equity in September 2025. On Goodreads it averages 4.37 from more than 77,000 ratings. The book itself warns that it is not a how-to book.

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How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): The tweetstorm and the podcast (2018)

X (Twitter) thread, then the Naval podcast. A thread of short principles posted on 31 May 2018. It covers wealth over status, specific knowledge, accountability, leverage and judgement. In 2019 he and Babak Nivi recorded a free, ad-free podcast that walks through it in short episodes. The full transcript is on nav.al.

The original tweetstorm on X, 31 May 2018 · Venture Hacks, 1 May 2019 · nav.al: How to Get Rich (podcast transcript)

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): The book edition (2020)

Independent Kindle edition, edited by Babak Nivi. The podcast as a 168-page dialogue. It was published with permission but independently of the authors. Goodreads readers praise how concise and practical it is. Some say it repeats the Almanack and leans towards tech founders.

Goodreads: How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)

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