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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, ed. Eric Jorgenson

Naval Ravikant founded AngelList and invested early in companies like Twitter and Uber. This book, compiled by Eric Jorgenson from Naval's tweets, talks and essays, distils his thinking on wealth. Two of its ideas drive this quiz.

Specific knowledge: the skills you can't be trained for in a classroom, picked up by chasing your genuine curiosity: childhood obsessions, odd skill combinations, insider experience. It feels like play to you and looks like work to others, which makes you hard to compete with. Naval's advice: build a business on specific knowledge, because nobody can out-compete you at being you.

Wealth vs money vs status: wealth is assets that earn while you sleep, like a product, a course, a piece of software. Money is just how wealth is transferred. Status is a ranking game that never satisfies. Businesses built for status (impressive titles, follower counts) tend to collapse; businesses built as assets compound.

Where this shows up in the quiz

Step 4 surfaces your specific knowledge: your early obsessions, rare skill combinations, and insider experience. Step 9 separates asset-building from status-chasing, and your answers adjust how each idea is scored.