• Wealth Creation: Build leverage through code or capital
• Specific Knowledge: Do what feels uniquely effortless
• Long-Term Thinking: Play long-term games with integrity
• Peace of Mind: Desire less to find happiness
• Self-Education: Learn to learn independently forever

Eric Jorgenson presents The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness as a curated compendium of Naval Ravikant’s most powerful ideas on creating wealth and cultivating a happy, meaningful life. Organized into two core sections—Wealth and Happiness—the book distills decades of Naval’s writing, interviews, podcasts, and tweets into a timeless guide, delivered in Naval’s own words, but thoughtfully structured for modern readers.

Eric’s authority comes from his own deep engagement with these ideas and from his background as a strategist and educator. He joins Zaarly’s founding team in 2011, serving as a product strategist, writer, and investor, and builds a business blog, Evergreen, which reaches over a million readers. Eric works methodically—gathering Naval’s insights into massive Google Docs “habitats for wisdom,” then curating and weaving them into clear, actionable narrative. This disciplined approach gives him both subject-matter depth and firsthand experience applying Naval’s principles.

Naval Ravikant, the subject of the Almanack, is a Silicon Valley legend. He co-founds Epinions in 1999, later launching AngelList in 2010, and becomes an early investor in companies like Twitter, Uber, and Postmates. Known for combining first-principles thinking with a fierce commitment to happiness—questioning assumptions, rejecting status games, and embracing mental models—Naval emerges as both a world-class operator and philosophical guide.

Eric’s selection process is hands-on: he evaluates which of Naval’s thoughts withstand scrutiny, organizes them by theme, and presents them in a highly readable thread intended to be revisited whenever a reader seeks clarity or direction . He believes these insights deserve permanence—consolidated, accessible, and life‑changing .

In this present tense guide, Eric synthesizes Naval’s life-tested mental models—on leverage, wealth creation, health, peace of mind, joy—and offers readers a practical roadmap for building a life that is both rich and deeply satisfying.