The Book of Elon with Eric Jorgenson

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Eric Jorgenson discusses his work compiling the thoughts of influential thinkers like Naval Ravikant and Elon Musk into accessible books.

David Senra: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org . Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Eric Jorgenson is an investor, author, and the CEO of Scribe Media — best known for his mission to distill the ideas of the world's most consequential thinkers into books anyone can read. Obsessed with the idea that the best way to understand a great mind was to read everything they'd ever said, Jorgenson spent years compiling Naval Ravikant's writing, podcasts, and interviews into a single coherent volume. The result — The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — was released for free, spread virally, and has been read by millions of people around the world. He never charged a dollar for it. That project established a model. Rather than waiting for great thinkers to write their own books, Jorgenson would do it for them — hunting down every interview, essay, and conversation, finding the signal in the noise, and shaping it into something permanent. The Book of Elon followed. Drawing on decades of interviews, Jorgenson assembled the most complete portrait of Musk's thinking ever put in one place — how he reasons, how he recruits, how…

People in this episode

Host: David Senra

Guest: Eric Jorgenson

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• biography
• investing
• content creation
• business strategy

Keywords

• Elon Musk
• Naval Ravikant
• biography
• Scribe Media
• content overload

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scribe Media

Books & works: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, The Book of Elon

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