If you understand mathematics and logic, you have the basis for understanding everything else.

• The ultimate foundations are math and logic: 0:00

• It’s better to read a great book slowly than to fly through a hundred books quickly: 1:22

• Learn persuasion and programming: 2:08

Transcript: http://nav.al/math-logic

You should be able to pick up any book in the library and read it.

• Read what you love until you love to read: 0:00

• Read the original scientific books in a field: 1:44

• Don't fear any book: 2:43

• The means of learning are abundant, the desire to learn is scarce: 3:54

Transcript: http://nav.al/love-read

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable. 

• Learn to sell, learn to build 0:00

• The Silicon Valley model is a builder and seller 1:07

• If you can do both you will be unstoppable 1:52

• I'd rather teach an engineer marketing than a marketer engineering 2:48

• Building is better when you're starting out, sales scales better over time 4:33

Transcript: http://nav.al/build-sell

Specific knowledge tends to be creative or technical. It's on the bleeding edge of technology, art and communication.

• Specific knowledge can be taught through apprenticeships 0:00

• Specific knowledge is often highly creative or technical 0:45

• Specific knowledge is specific to the individual and situation 2:02

• You can't be too deliberate about assembling specific knowledge 3:01

• Build specific knowledge where you are a natural 4:44

Transcript: http://nav.al/creative-technical

Arm yourself with specific knowledge. It can't be trained but it can be found by pursuing your genuine curiosity.

• Arm yourself with specific knowledge 0:00

• Specific knowledge can't be trained 1:47

• Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your curiosity 2:34

• Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you 3:53

Transcript: http://nav.al/specific-knowledge

Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.

• Don't partner with pessimists 0:00

• Partner with rational optimists 1:20

• We're descended from pessimists 2:28

• BOCTAOE 4:13

Transcript: http://nav.al/rational-optimists

Picking partners with high intelligence, energy and integrity is the three-part checklist that you can't compromise on.

• Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy and integrity 0:00

• Motivation of the people you work with has to come intrinsically 1:18

• Integrity is what someone does, despite what they say they do 2:18

Transcript: http://nav.al/intelligence-energy-integrity

Pick an industry where you can play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life come from compound interest over many turns of the game.

• Play long-term games with long-term people 0:00

• When you switch industries, you're starting over from scratch 2:21

• Long-term players make each other rich 4:02

• Returns come from compound interest in iterated games 4:49

Transcript: http://nav.al/long-term

The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers, by allowing you to scale any niche obsession.

• The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers 0:00

• The Internet allows you to scale any niche obsession 1:22

• Escape competition through authenticity 3:33

Transcript: http://nav.al/possible-careers

Society will pay you for creating what it wants, but doesn’t know how to get, and delivering it at scale.

• Give society what it wants, but doesn't know how to get—at scale 0:00

• Figure out what product you can provide and then figure out how to scale it 0:57

Transcript: http://nav.al/product-scale