My Conversation with Naval on Building Judgement

Sep 23, 2025
36 mins

Episode Description

It's been five years since the Almanack of Naval Ravikant was published.


I spent the day with Naval expanding on key ideas from the book. We recorded hours of that conversation to share with you.


This episode is a portion of that long conversation that talks about Building Judgement


You can purchase the new expanded edition with nearly 4 hours of new material on Audible here:

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Almanack-of-Naval-Ravikant-Audiobook/B0FBCP1JWJ


Chapters:

00:00 The Search for Something Perfect & Permanent

03:00 Timeless vs. Timely Knowledge

06:00 Truth, Reach & Universal Theories

09:00 From Specifics to General Principles

12:00 Learning by Doing – Experience First

15:00 Judgment, Taste & the Role of Reflection

18:00 Investing, Taste & Post-Wealth Choices

21:00 Hard Work, Focus & Breakthroughs

24:00 From Logic to Intuition to Taste

27:00 AI, Information Retrieval & Human Creativity

30:00 Leverage of Software Engineers with AI

33:00 The iPhone as the Greatest Product of the Age

36:00 Entrepreneurs, Creativity & Using AI as a Tool


To support the costs of producing this podcast: 

>> Buy a copy of the Navalmanack: www.navalmanack.com/ 

>> Buy a copy of The Anthology of Balaji: https://balajianthology.com/

>> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage 

>> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun

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