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Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy

14 points by rmason 6y ago

tome 6y ago
Does the concept of "dategore" exist? Because this is it! For posterity, at the time of writing the title is > Tim Ferris interviews Naval Ravikant (10-16-20)
DarthGhandi 6y ago
> Proper examination should ruin the life that you’re currently living. It should cause you to leave relationships. It should cause you to reestablish boundaries with family members and with colleagues. It should cause you to quit your job. . . . If it doesn’t do that, it’s not real examination. If it doesn’t come attached with destruction of your current life, then you can’t create the new life in which you will not have the anxiety. This is hilarious and feels like something out of the tvshow silicon valley. I guess throwing everything away, literally everything, your job, support networks is incredible easy when you're loaded from a decade of cheap easy VC money. These people live on a different planet and should be mocked relentlessly, it's a real life comedy. Naval definitely did not follow his own advice prior to suffering all this survivorship bias now.
- tomhoward 6y ago
  For Naval, the mindset came well before the money did. He's not a person who has had it easy in the startup world; he's had to fight like a maniac to get ahead, including taking legal action against the biggest VCs to get what he felt he was owed, and winning. He then started AngelList to challenege/attack VCs, not live off easy money from them.
- dang 6y ago
  We've asked you before to stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. You've kept doing it, well past the point of outright abusiveness (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24809403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24809403) so I've banned this account. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd appreciate it. Using multiple accounts to bypass moderation restrictions is also not cool.
sixhobbits 6y ago
This is a great example of why I hate the podcast format. I'm sure ten to fifty percent of this is good and maybe I it would teach me something, but it's also two hours long and I don't want to wade through the bullshitty parts. If it were text, I could skim or skip sections.
- madbkarim 6y ago
  You’re describing an antithesis of podcasting. It was invented for the very reason you’re hating it here, which I find strange. It’s like complaining how walking has a great advantage on your health as a means to shit on the invention of cars—when cars are invented for people who are not willing to walk (and some other reasons)
  - sixhobbits 6y ago
    great analogy :) I hate cars too.
- donclark 6y ago
  Seems possible - https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=convert+audio+to+text&cat=web&pl=opensearch&language=english https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=convert+audio+to+...

14 points by rmason 6y ago

tome 6y ago

Does the concept of "dategore" exist? Because this is it! For posterity, at the time of writing the title is > Tim Ferris interviews Naval Ravikant (10-16-20)

DarthGhandi 6y ago

> Proper examination should ruin the life that you’re currently living. It should cause you to leave relationships. It should cause you to reestablish boundaries with family members and with colleagues. It should cause you to quit your job. . . . If it doesn’t do that, it’s not real examination. If it doesn’t come attached with destruction of your current life, then you can’t create the new life in which you will not have the anxiety. This is hilarious and feels like something out of the tvshow silicon valley. I guess throwing everything away, literally everything, your job, support networks is incredible easy when you're loaded from a decade of cheap easy VC money. These people live on a different planet and should be mocked relentlessly, it's a real life comedy. Naval definitely did not follow his own advice prior to suffering all this survivorship bias now.

tomhoward 6y ago
For Naval, the mindset came well before the money did. He's not a person who has had it easy in the startup world; he's had to fight like a maniac to get ahead, including taking legal action against the biggest VCs to get what he felt he was owed, and winning. He then started AngelList to challenege/attack VCs, not live off easy money from them.
dang 6y ago
We've asked you before to stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. You've kept doing it, well past the point of outright abusiveness (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24809403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24809403) so I've banned this account. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd appreciate it. Using multiple accounts to bypass moderation restrictions is also not cool.

sixhobbits 6y ago

This is a great example of why I hate the podcast format. I'm sure ten to fifty percent of this is good and maybe I it would teach me something, but it's also two hours long and I don't want to wade through the bullshitty parts. If it were text, I could skim or skip sections.

madbkarim 6y ago
You’re describing an antithesis of podcasting. It was invented for the very reason you’re hating it here, which I find strange. It’s like complaining how walking has a great advantage on your health as a means to shit on the invention of cars—when cars are invented for people who are not willing to walk (and some other reasons)
- sixhobbits 6y ago
  great analogy :) I hate cars too.
donclark 6y ago
Seems possible - https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=convert+audio+to+text&cat=web&pl=opensearch&language=english https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=convert+audio+to+...