Perspective · Messaging

Naval Ravikant

Show your own knowledge and judgement.

own voice
specialist knowledge
media
judgement
long term

Naval Ravikant — Show your own knowledge and judgement

Inherited source references. Read the original before attributing advice to the person. These applications are not quotations or an official collaboration.

Start with insights the writer can develop through their own experience.

Explain your reasoning so the piece remains useful after the topic stops trending.

Questions to work with:

What does the writer know that helps this reader?

What can only you explain this way?

Sources from the original project:

How to Get Rich: Naval's framework on equity, specific knowledge, accountability, leverage and judgment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-TZqOsVCNM

Specific Knowledge: why it can't be trained and how to find yours
https://nav.al/specific-knowledge

How to Get Rich: Naval on specific knowledge, accountability, leverage and judgment
https://nav.al/rich

Use this perspective to examine the brief. Write directly in English in the brand’s voice. Preserve facts and terms; do not use the person’s name as product evidence.

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How to use Naval Ravikant’s perspective

Start with insights the writer can develop through their own experience.
Explain your reasoning so the piece remains useful after the topic stops trending.

Our own applications for copy – not quotations and not an endorsement.

Questions to work with

What does the writer know that helps this reader?
What can only you explain this way?

Sources from the original project

Inherited source references. Read the original before attributing advice to the person. These applications are not quotations or an official collaboration.

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