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Eric Jorgenson
My Conversation with Naval on Building Judgement
35 minutes Posted Sep 23, 2025 at 2:08 pm.
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Hard Work, Focus & Breakthroughs
From Logic to Intuition to Taste
AI, Information Retrieval & Human Creativity
Leverage of Software Engineers with AI
The iPhone as the Greatest Product of the Age
Entrepreneurs, Creativity & Using AI as a Tool
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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
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