OVERLAP · 9 SHARED BOOKs
Books both Naval Ravikant and Tobi Lütke recommend
Naval Ravikant and Tobi Lütke both positively recommend these books.
Shared positive books
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Antifragile
Philosophy
Tobi Lütke“Shopify is practically built on that book”
Lütke has repeatedly credited Taleb's Antifragile as a foundational framework for how Shopify is engineered to benefit from volatility.
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Influence
Psychology
Tobi Lütketim.blog · The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts Tobi Lutke
“The most mind-bending book you can imagine, because it essentially taught you always humans are flawed and influential.”
Lütke pairs Influence with High Output Management as the two foundational business books he read as a young CEO.
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The Lessons of History
History
Naval Ravikantnavalmanack.com · Navals Recommended Reading
“This is a great book I really liked which summarizes larger themes of history.”
Naval values it as a masterclass in compression—taking fifty years of historical scholarship and reducing it to durable patterns, the same operation he applies to knowledge generally.
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Permutation City
Sci-Fi
Naval Ravikant“[The author's] very dry but full of great ideas.”
The page cites a Naval tweet about Greg Egan.
Tobi Lütke“Loved Permutation City. Hard science fiction exceptional.”
Lütke has tweeted at length about Greg Egan, calling out Permutation City specifically for the rigor of its science.
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The Evolution of Everything
Popular Science
Naval Ravikantnavalmanack.com · Navals Recommended Reading
Naval recommends it as Ridley's most directly relevant book for understanding why decentralized emergence beats top-down design—a theme central to Naval's own thinking on markets and startups.
