OVERLAP · 15 SHARED BOOKs
Books both Naval Ravikant and Patrick Collison recommend
Naval Ravikant and Patrick Collison both positively recommend these books.
Shared positive books
15 BOOKs-
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The Beginning of Infinity
Popular Science
Naval Ravikantnavalmanack.com · navals recommended reading
“Not the easiest read, but it made me smarter.”
Naval recommends it as the deepest available account of why good explanations—not data—are the engine of all human progress.
Patrick CollisonFlagged green (particularly great); Deutsch's epistemology of progress is a direct intellectual ancestor of Progress Studies, which Collison co-founded with Tyler Cowen.
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[004]
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg
Politics
Naval Ravikantnavalmanack.com · navals recommended reading
“The best book I've read since Sapiens.”
Naval singles it out by name as among his highest endorsements, citing its prescience on cryptography and the decline of the nation-state.
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[009]
Stories of Your Life and Others
Sci-Fi
Naval Ravikant“Drop everything and read [Understand]”
The page cites a Naval tweet recommending the collection.
Patrick CollisonFlagged blue on Collison's bookshelf — substantially above average.
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[014]
Labyrinths
Fiction
Naval Ravikantnavalmanack.com · navals recommended reading
Listed on Naval's recommended reading page.
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[015]
Wind, Sand and Stars
History
Patrick CollisonFlagged blue on Collison's bookshelf — substantially above average.
