Naval’s Recommended Reading
纳瓦尔推荐读物

The truth is, I don’t read for self-improvement. I read out of curiosity and interest. The best book is the one you’ll devour.
事实上，我读书并非为了自我提升，而是出于好奇与兴趣。所谓好书，就是那种你会如饥似渴读完的书。

Books
书籍

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（由于本节链接众多，您可能更倾向于电子版。为方便起见，可访问 Navalmanack.com 获取本章电子版。）

Read enough, and you become a connoisseur. Then you naturally gravitate more toward theory, concepts, nonfiction.
阅读量足够了，你就会成为行家。届时，你自然而然会更偏向于理论、概念以及非虚构类作品。

Nonfiction
非虚构类

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
《无穷的开始：塑造世界的解释》，大卫·多伊奇 著

Not the easiest read, but it made me smarter. [79]
这本书读起来不轻松，但让我受益匪浅。[79]

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
《人类简史：从动物到上帝》，作者尤瓦尔·赫拉利

A history of the human species. The observations, frameworks, and mental models will have you looking at history and your fellow humans differently. [1]
一部人类史。书中的观察、框架与思维模型，会让你以全新视角看待历史与身边的人。[1]

Sapiens is the best book of the last decade I have read. He had decades to write Sapiens. There are lots of great ideas in there and it’s just full of them, chock-full per page. [1]
《人类简史》是我过去十年读过的最佳书籍。作者花了数十年撰写此书，书中满是绝妙观点，每页都俯拾皆是。[1]

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
《理性乐观派：繁荣是如何演化的》，马特·里德利 著

The most brilliant and enlightening book I’ve read in years. He has written four of my top twenty books. [11]
这是我多年来读过的最精彩、最具启发性的书。我最爱的二十本书里，有四本出自他手。[11]

Everything else written by Matt Ridley. Matt is a scientist, optimist, and forward thinker. One of my favorite authors. I’ve read everything of his, and reread everything of his. [4]
马特·里德利的其他所有著作。马特是一位科学家，秉持乐观主义，富有前瞻性思维，是我最喜爱的作家之一。他的作品我不仅全都读过，还反复研读。[4]

Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
纳西姆·塔勒布的《置身事内》

The best book I read in 2018, I highly recommend it. Lots of great ideas in there. Lots of good mental models and constructs. He has a bit of an attitude, but he has that because he’s brilliant, and it’s okay. So just look past the attitude and read the book, learn the concepts. It’s one of the best business books I’ve ever read. And luckily, it doesn’t masquerade as a business book. [10]
这是我 2018 年读过的最佳书籍，强烈推荐。书里有许多绝妙的想法，还有不少出色的思维模型与概念。作者有点个性，但鉴于他才华出众，这也无可厚非。所以别纠结他的个性，只管读这本书，学习里面的理念。这是我读过的最优秀的商业书籍之一，好在它并没有打着商业书籍的幌子。[10]

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Taleb
《普罗克汝斯忒斯之床：纳西姆·塔勒布的哲学与实用格言集》

This is his collection of ancient wisdom. He is also famous for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, and Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, all of which are worth reading. [7]
这是他对古老智慧的汇集。他还因《黑天鹅：如何应对不可预知的未来》《反脆弱：从不确定性中获益》以及《随机漫步的傻瓜：发现市场和人生中的隐藏机遇》而声名远扬，这些书皆值得一读。[7]

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman
《六堂轻松物理课：物理学基础，由最杰出的教师讲解》，理查德·费曼 著

I would give my kids a copy of Richard Feynman’s Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time. Richard Feynman is a famous physicist. I love both his demeanor as well as his understanding of physics.
我会给孩子们每人一本理查德·费曼的《费曼物理学讲义（第一卷）》和《费曼物理学讲义（第二卷）》，内容涉及爱因斯坦的相对论、对称性及时空。理查德·费曼是著名物理学家，我欣赏他的风范以及他对物理学的见解。

I’ve also been reading Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Feynman and rereading Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, a biography about him. [8]
我还读了费曼所著的《别逗了，费曼先生：科学与生活中的奇思妙想》，并且重新研读了关于他的传记《天才：理查德·费曼的生平与科学成就》。[8]

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
《万物解释者：用简单语言解读复杂事物》，兰德尔·门罗 著

A great book by Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd, a very science-oriented webcomic). In this book, he explains very complicated concepts, all the way from climate change to physical systems to submarines while only using the thousand most common words in the English language. He called the Saturn Five rocket “Up Goer Five.” You can’t define a rocket as a spaceship or a rocket. It’s self-referential. He says “up goer.” It’s this thing that goes up. Kids get it right away. [4]
这是兰德尔·门罗（极具科学风格的网络漫画《xkcd》创作者）所著的一本佳作。在书中，他仅用英语里最常用的一千个单词，就阐释了从气候变化、物理系统到潜艇等极为复杂的概念。他将土星五号火箭称作“向上行者五号”。你不能用“宇宙飞船”或“火箭”来定义火箭，这属于自我指代。他说“向上行者”，指的就是能向上飞行的物体，孩子们一下子就能理解。[4]

Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein
《思考物理：易懂的现实应用》，作者刘易斯·卡罗尔·爱泼斯坦

There’s another great book called Thinking Physics. I open this one all the time. I love on the back cover how it has this great little pitch that says, “The only book used in both grade school and graduate school.” It’s true. It’s all simple physics puzzles that can be explained to a twelve-year-old child and can be explained to a twenty-five-year-old grad student in physics. They all have fundamental insights in physics. They’re all kind of tricky, but anyone can get to the answer through purely logical reasoning. [4]
还有一本非常不错的书，叫《思考物理》。我常常翻阅它。我很喜欢它封底上那句精妙的宣传语：“唯一一本在小学和研究生院都通用的书。”确实如此。书中都是些简单的物理谜题，既能讲给 12 岁的孩子，也能讲给 25 岁的物理研究生。这些谜题都蕴含着物理学的基本原理。虽然都有点难度，但任何人都能通过纯粹的逻辑推理得出答案。[4]

The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
威尔与阿里尔·杜兰特所著《历史的教训》

This is a great book I really like that summarizes some of the larger themes of history; it’s very incisive. And unlike most history books, it’s actually really small, and it covers a lot of ground. [7]
这是本很棒的书，我着实喜爱。它提炼了历史上的一些宏大主题，见解十分深刻。与多数历史书籍不同，这本书篇幅短小，却内容广博。[7]

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
《主权个体：把握向信息时代的转型》，作者詹姆斯·戴尔·戴维森、威廉·里斯 - 莫格勋爵

This is the best book I’ve read since Sapiens (far less mainstream, though).
这是我读过《人类简史》之后，读到的最好的书（不过这本书远没有《人类简史》那么畅销）。

Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger (edited by Peter Kaufman)
《穷查理宝典：查理·芒格智慧箴言录》，作者查理·芒格（彼得·考夫曼编辑）

This masquerades as a business book, but it’s really just Charlie Munger (of Berkshire Hathaway)’s advice on overcoming oneself to live a successful and virtuous life. [7] [80]
这本书看似是本商业书籍，实则不过是查理·芒格（伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司的）就如何超越自我、过上成功且高尚生活所给出的建议。[7][80]

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
《现实不似你所见：量子引力之旅》，卡洛·罗韦利 著

This is the best book I’ve read in the last year. Physics, poetry, philosophy, and history packaged in a very accessible form.
这是我去年读过的最佳书籍。它将物理学、诗歌、哲学与历史，以极为通俗易懂的方式融合呈现。

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
卡洛·罗韦利的《物理学简短七课》

I’ve read this one at least twice.
这本书我起码读过两遍了。

For game theory, in addition to playing strategy games, you may want to try The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy by J.D. Williams and The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod. [11]
关于博弈论，除了玩策略游戏，你或许还可以尝试阅读 J.D. 威廉姆斯的《完全策略家：策略博弈理论入门》以及罗伯特·阿克塞尔罗德的《合作的进化》。[11]

Philosophy and Spirituality
哲学与精神层面

Everything by Jed McKenna
杰德·麦肯纳的全部作品

Jed spits raw truth. His style may be off-putting, but the dedication to truth is unparalleled. [79]
杰德直言不讳地道出真相。他的表达方式或许让人不太舒服，但对真相的执着无人能及。[79]

Theory of Everything (The Enlightened Perspective) - Dreamstate Trilogy
万物理论（开悟视角）——《梦境三部曲》

Jed McKenna’s Notebook
杰德·麦肯纳的笔记

Jed Talks #1 and #2
杰德的第 1 期和第 2 期访谈

Everything by Kapil Gupta, MD
所有内容均出自医学博士卡皮尔·古普塔之手

Kapil recently became a personal advisor and coach to me, and this comes from a person who doesn’t believe in coaches. [79]
卡皮尔最近成了我的私人顾问兼教练，要知道，我原本可是个不相信教练的人。[79]

A Master’s Secret Whispers: For those who abhor noise and seek The Truth…about life and living
大师的秘密私语：献给那些厌恶喧嚣，追寻生活与生命真谛的人……

Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life
直接真理：针对人生永恒问题的、毫不妥协且非指令性的真理

Atmamun: The Path to achieving the bliss of the Himalayan Swamis. And the freedom of a living God.
阿特玛蒙：通往喜马拉雅苦行僧的极乐之境与在世神明般自由的道路。

The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti
吉杜·克里希那穆提的《生命之书》

Krishnamurti is a lesser-known guy, an Indian philosopher who lived at the turn of the last century and is extremely influential to me. He’s an uncompromising, very direct person who basically tells you to look at your own mind at all times. I have been hugely influenced by him. Probably the best book is The Book of Life, which is excerpts from his various speeches and books stitched together. [6]
克里希那穆提是位鲜为人知的印度哲学家，生活在上世纪之交，对我影响深远。他为人坚定且直率，常告诫人们要时刻审视自己的内心。我深受其影响。他最出色的著作或许是《生命之书》，该书汇集了他在各类演讲与著作中的精彩片段。[6]

I’ll give my kids a copy of The Book of Life. I’ll tell them to save it until they’re older because it won’t make much sense while they’re younger. [8]
我会给孩子们每人一本《生命之书》，让他们留着，等长大些再看，因为小时候看不太懂。[8]

Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti
《全然自由：吉杜·克里希那穆提精萃》，作者吉杜·克里希那穆提

I like this for someone who’s more advanced. A rationalist’s guide to the perils of the human mind. The “spiritual” book I keep returning to. [1]
对于进阶读者而言，我很推荐这本书。它是理性主义者对人类思维困境的指南，也是我反复研读的 “心灵” 佳作。[1]

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
赫尔曼·黑塞的《悉达多》

I love this as a classic book on philosophy, a good introduction for someone starting out. I’ve given out more copies of this book than any other. [1]
作为一本哲学经典，我很喜欢这本书，它是哲学入门的佳作。我送出的这本书，比其他任何书都多。[1]

I’m pretty much always rereading something by either Krishnamurti or Osho. Those are my favorite philosophers. [4]
我几乎总是在反复研读克里希那穆提或者奥修的著作。他们是我最喜爱的哲学家。[4]

[Update: I’d now add Jed McKenna, Kapil Gupta, the Vashistha Yoga, and Schopenhauer to that list.]
更新：我现在会把杰德·麦肯纳、卡皮尔·古普塔、《毗奢斯塔瑜伽》以及叔本华列入那个名单。

The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within by Osho
《秘密之书：112 种冥想，探寻内在奥秘》，奥修 著

Most meditation techniques are concentration methods, and there are many, many meditation techniques. If you want to run through a bunch of them, you can pick up a book called The Book of Secrets by Osho. I know he’s gotten a bad rap recently, but he was a pretty smart guy. It’s actually a translation of an old Sanskrit book with 112 different meditations. You can try each one and see which one works for you. [74]
大多数冥想方法都侧重于专注力培养，而且冥想方法种类繁多。要是你想尝试各种冥想方法，可以找一本奥修所著的《秘密之书》。我知道他最近口碑欠佳，但他确实很有智慧。这本书实际上是一部古梵文典籍的译本，其中包含 112 种不同的冥想方式。你可以逐一尝试，看看哪种对你有效。[74]

The Great Challenge: Exploring the World Within by Osho
伟大的挑战：探索奥修的内心世界

The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello by Anthony de Mello
《爱的方式：安东尼·德·梅洛的临终沉思录》，作者：安东尼·德·梅洛

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer
《不羁的灵魂：超越自我的旅程》，作者迈克尔·辛格

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
马可·奥勒留的《沉思录》

Marcus Aurelius was absolutely life-changing for me. It’s the personal diary of the emperor of Rome. Here’s a guy who was probably the most powerful human being on Earth at the time he lived. He’s writing a diary to himself, never expecting it to be published. When you open this book, you realize he had all the same issues and all the same mental struggles; he was trying to be a better person. Right there, you figure out success and power don’t improve your internal state—you still have to work on it. [6]
马可·奥勒留的著作对我而言，绝对有着改变人生的意义。这是罗马皇帝的私人日记。此人在其所处时代，或许是地球上权势最为显赫之人。他写日记只是为了记录给自己看，从未想过会出版。当你翻开这本书，就会发现，他面临着和我们一样的问题，经历着同样的精神挣扎，同样在努力让自己变得更好。由此你会明白，成功与权力并不能改善你的内心状态，你仍需为之付出努力。[6]

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant
《爱你自己，犹如生命全系于此》，卡迈勒·拉维坎特 著

I’ve actually been reading my brother’s book, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It. I thought it was very succinctly written. (Obviously a plug for my bro.)
其实我一直在读我哥哥写的《像生命攸关一样爱自己》。我觉得这本书写得言简意赅。（显然这是在给我哥打广告。）

He’s the philosopher in the family—I’m just the amateur. He has a great line in his book:
他是家里的哲学家，我不过是个业余爱好者。他在自己书中有句妙语：

I once asked a monk how he found peace.
我曾问一位僧人，他是如何寻得内心安宁的。

“I say ‘yes,’” he’d said. “To all that happens, I say ‘yes.’” [7]
“我会说‘好的’，”他曾说道，“对于发生的一切，我都会说‘好的’。” [7]

The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master
塞内卡之道：一位斯多葛派大师的实用信函

My most listened-to audiobook. The most important audiobook I’ve ever heard.
我收听次数最多的有声书，也是我听过最重要的有声书。

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
迈克尔·波伦的《如何改变你的思维》

There’s a good book Michael Pollan wrote recently called How to Change Your Mind, and I think it is a brilliant book everybody should read.
迈克尔·波伦最近写了本好书，叫《如何改变你的思维》，我觉得这是本佳作，人人都该读一读。

The book discusses psychedelics. Psychedelics are a bit of a cheat code in self-observation. I don’t recommend drugs for anybody—you can do it all through pure meditation. If you want to accelerate ahead, you know, psychedelics are good for that. [74]
这本书探讨了迷幻剂。迷幻剂在自我审视方面，某种程度上就像是个捷径。我不建议任何人使用药物，其实仅靠纯粹的冥想就能达成同样效果。要是你想加快进展，迷幻剂倒是能派上用场。[74]

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living by Bruce Lee
《醒思录：李小龙的生活智慧》，李小龙 著

Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy, and Striking Thoughts is a good summary of some of his philosophy.
说来也怪，李小龙曾撰写过一些颇为精彩的哲学论述，而《醒思录》则是对其部分哲学理念的出色概括。

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
卡里·纪伯伦的《先知》

This book reads like a modern-day poetic religious tome. It’s up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful, nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book.
这本书读起来宛如一部现代版的诗意宗教宝典，与《薄伽梵歌》《道德经》《圣经》《古兰经》等经典齐名。其文风带有一种宗教意味与真实感，却又通俗易懂、优美动人，不囿于特定教派或宗派。我很喜欢这本书。

He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like, what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you should treat your enemies and your friends, how you should work with money, what can you think of every time you have to kill something to eat it. I felt it, like the great religious books, gave a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend The Prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or atheist. I think it’s a beautiful book, and it’s worth reading. [7]
他天赋异禀，能用诗意的语言描绘出孩子的模样、恋人的状态、婚姻应有的样子，以及该如何对待敌友、如何与金钱打交道，甚至每次为了获取食物而杀生时心中的所思所想。我感觉，如同那些伟大的宗教典籍一般，这本书对如何应对生活中的重大难题，给出了极为深刻、极富哲理且真实可信的答案。我向所有人推荐《先知》，无论你是否有宗教信仰，是基督徒、印度教徒、犹太教徒，还是无神论者。我认为这是一本佳作，值得一读。[7]

Science Fiction
科幻小说

I started with comic books and sci-fi. Then I was into history and news. Then into psychology, popular science, technology.
我一开始喜欢看漫画书和科幻作品，后来又迷上了历史和新闻，再后来对心理学、科普以及科技产生了兴趣。

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯所著的《虚构集》

I love Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine author. His short story collection Ficciones, or Labyrinths, is amazing. Borges is probably still the most powerful author I have read who wasn’t just outright writing philosophy. There was philosophy in there with the sci-fi. [1]
我喜爱豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯这位阿根廷作家。他的短篇小说集《虚构集》（又名《小径分岔的花园》）精彩绝伦。博尔赫斯或许仍是我读过的最具感染力的作家，他并非单纯地创作哲学作品，而是在科幻故事中融入了哲学思考。[1]

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
特德·姜的《你一生的故事》及其他作品

My current favorite sci-fi short story: probably “Understand” by Ted Chiang. It’s in a collection called Stories of Your Life and Others. “Story of Your Life” was made into a movie called Arrival. [1]
我目前最喜欢的科幻短篇小说，大概是特德·姜写的《领悟》，收录在《你一生的故事及其他》这本书里。《你一生的故事》还被改编成电影《降临》。[1]

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
《呼吸：特德·姜作品集》

This contemplates the marvel of thermodynamics from the best sci-fi short story writer of our age.
这是我们这个时代最杰出的科幻短篇小说作家对热力学奇迹的思索。

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
特德·姜的《软件体的生命周期》

Another masterpiece of sci-fi by Ted Chiang.
特德·姜的又一科幻力作。

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
尼尔·斯蒂芬森的《雪崩》

Snow Crash is an amazing, amazing book. There’s nothing quite similar to Snow Crash. Snow Crash is in a league of its own. Stephenson also wrote The Diamond Age.
《雪崩》这本书简直精彩绝伦，独一无二，无可比拟。斯蒂芬森还著有《钻石时代》。

“The Last Question,” a short story by Isaac Asimov
《最后的问题》，艾萨克·阿西莫夫所著的一篇短篇小说

I quote “The Last Question” all the time. I loved it as a kid.
我常常引用《最后的问题》。我从小就喜欢这篇作品。

What are the books you’re rereading now?
你现在重新翻阅的是哪些书？

That’s a good question. I’ll pull up my Kindle app as we talk. Usually, I’m always rereading some books in science.
这问题问得好。咱们聊的时候我打开 Kindle 应用程序看看。平时我总在反复研读一些科学类书籍。

I’m reading a book on René Girard’s mimetic theory. It’s more of an overview book, because I couldn’t make it through his actual writings. I’m reading Tools of Titans, Tim Ferriss’s book of what he learned from a lot of great performers.
我正在读一本关于勒内·吉拉尔模仿理论的书。这本书更像是个概论，因为他的原著我实在读不下去。我还在读蒂姆·费里斯的《巨人的工具》，书里讲的是他从众多杰出人士身上学到的东西。

I’m reading a book, Thermoinfocomplexity. It’s actually by a friend of mine, Behzad Mohit. I just finished reading Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade, or I should say I just finished skimming Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini. I don’t think I needed to read the entire book to get the point, but it was still good to read what I did. It’s a great little history book. I’m currently reading The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers, also by Will Durant.
我正在读一本叫《热信息复杂性》的书，作者是我的朋友贝赫扎德·莫希特。我刚读完——或者说刚浏览完——罗伯特·西奥迪尼的《先发影响力：影响与说服的革命性方法》。我觉得不用通读全书就能领会要点，但我读过的部分还是挺不错的。这是本很棒的小历史书。我现在正在读威尔·杜兰特的《哲学的故事：伟大哲学家的生平与思想》 。

I have a young kid now, so I’ve got a lot of child-rearing books I use more as reference material than anything else. I recently read some Emerson and some Chesterfield. I have a Leo Tolstoy book here.
我现在有个年幼的孩子，所以买了不少育儿书籍，主要拿它们当参考资料。最近我读了些爱默生和切斯特菲尔德的作品，手头还有本列夫·托尔斯泰的书。

Alan Watts. Scott Adams. I reread God’s Debris recently. Tao Te Ching, a friend of mine is rereading it, so I picked it up again. There’s tons. I mean, I could go on and on. There’s Nietzsche’s book here. There’s The Undercover Economist [Tim Harford]. The Richard Bach book [Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah]. There are some Jed McKenna books.
艾伦·瓦茨、斯科特·亚当斯的作品都很不错。我最近重读了《上帝的碎片》。有个朋友正在重读《道德经》，受其影响我也重新翻开了这本书。值得读的书太多了，我简直可以滔滔不绝。这里还有尼采的著作、蒂姆·哈福德的《卧底经济学》、理查德·巴赫的《幻觉：一个不情愿的弥赛亚的冒险》，以及杰德·麦肯纳的一些作品。

A little Dale Carnegie in here. The Three-Body Problem [Cixin Liu]. Man’s Search for Meaning [Viktor E. Frankl]. There’s lots. Sex at Dawn [Christopher Ryan]. There’s a lot of books out there.
这里面有一些戴尔·卡耐基的影子。还有《三体》（刘慈欣著）、《活出生命的意义》（维克多·E·弗兰克尔著），类似的书有很多。比如《黎明的性行为》（克里斯托弗·瑞安著），市面上的书可谓琳琅满目。

By the way, when I tell people what I’m reading, I skip two-thirds of my books. The reason I skip two-thirds is because they’re embarrassing. They don’t sound like good books to read. They’ll sound trivial or silly. Who cares? I don’t have to tell everybody everything I read. I read all kinds of stuff other people consider junk or even reprehensible. I read all kinds of stuff I disagree with because they’re mind-bending. [4]
顺便说一句，当我跟别人说起自己在读什么书时，有三分之二的书我都不会提。之所以略过这三分之二，是因为说出来怪难为情的。这些书听起来不像是值得一读的好书，反倒显得琐碎又愚蠢。谁会在意呢？我没必要把自己读过的书都告诉别人。我读的书五花八门，有些在别人眼里就是垃圾，甚至是该遭人诟病的内容。我还会读一些我并不认同的东西，因为它们能让人大开脑洞。

I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That’s an investment to me. [4]
我向来舍得在书上花钱，从不觉得这是开销，在我看来，这是一种投资。[4]

Blogs
博客

(Since there are so many links in this section, you may prefer a digital copy. Go to Navalmanack.com to get a digital version of this chapter for your convenience.)
（由于本节链接众多，您可能更倾向于电子版。为方便起见，可访问 Navalmanack.com 获取本章的电子版。）

Some amazing blogs out there:
这里有一些超棒的博客：

@KevinSimler—Melting Asphalt, https://meltingasphalt.com/
@凯文·西姆勒——网站《融化的沥青》，网址：https://meltingasphalt.com/

@farnamstreet—Farnam Street, A Signal in a World Full of Noise, https://fs.blog/
来自@法纳姆街（Farnam Street）——法纳姆街，喧嚣世界中的一丝信号，网址：https://fs.blog/

@benthompson—Stratchery, https://stratechery.com/
来自@本·汤普森——Stratchery（网址：https://stratechery.com/ ）

@baconmeteor—Idle Words, https://idlewords.com/ [4]
源自@baconmeteor——Idle Words 网站，网址：https://idlewords.com/ [4]

“The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works” by @FarnamStreet
《芒格操作系统：如何过上真正有意义的生活》，作者@法纳姆街

Rules to live and prosper by.
用以生活和发展的准则。

“The Day You Became a Better Writer” by Scott Adams
《你成为更出色写作者的那一天》，作者斯科特·亚当斯

Even though I am a very good writer and I’ve been writing a lot since I was young, I still open up that blog post and put it in the background anytime I’m writing anything important. It’s that good. I use it as my basic template for how to write well. Think about the title, “The Day You Became a Better Writer.” It’s such a powerful title. He teaches you in one small blog post the importance of surprise, the importance of headlines, the importance of being brief and directed, not using some adjectives and adverbs, using active not the passive voice, etc. This one blog post right there will change your writing style forever if you put your ego down and absorb it properly. [6]
尽管我写作能力很强，自幼便笔耕不辍，但每当撰写重要内容时，我仍会打开那篇博客文章，放在一旁参考。它实在是太棒了。我把它当作提升写作水平的基础模板。看看标题——《你蜕变，从这一天开始》，多么震撼人心。在这篇简短的博文中，作者阐述了制造悬念、拟定标题的重要性，还强调了行文需简洁、精准，少用形容词与副词，多用主动语态而非被动语态等要点。只要你虚心学习，认真领会，这一篇博文就能彻底改变你的写作风格。[6]

Want to become smarter in ten minutes? Absorb this: “Crony Beliefs” by Kevin Simler.
想在十分钟内变得更聪明吗？来看看这个：凯文·西姆勒的《裙带信念》 。

Best post I’ve read on “Career Decisions” (in Silicon Valley/tech) by @eladgil
我读过的关于“（硅谷/科技行业）职业决策”的最佳文章，作者是@eladgil

Harari’s Sapiens in lecture/course form on YouTube.
以讲座或课程形式在 YouTube 上呈现的哈拉里《人类简史》。

Every business school should have a course on Aggregation Theory. Or learn it from the master himself, @benthompson, the best analyst in technology.
每所商学院都应开设一门关于聚合理论的课程。或者直接向大师本人——科技领域最出色的分析师@本·汤普森学习。

Great read. “Quantum physics is not ‘weird.’ You are weird.”—“Think Like Reality” [Eliezer Yudkowsky]
一本很棒的读物。“量子物理并不‘怪异’，怪异的是你。”——《像现实一样思考》[埃利泽·尤德考斯基]

Must-read. “Lazy Leadership” by @Awilkinson
必读。@Awilkinson 的《懒惰领导力》

No-holds-barred wisdom from a self-made man. Everything on @EdLatimore’s site is worth reading for overachievers: https://edlatimore.com/
一位白手起家者毫无保留的智慧。对志存高远者来说，@埃德·拉蒂莫尔（Ed Latimore）网站上的所有内容都值得一读：https://edlatimore.com/

If you eat, invest, and think according to what the “news” advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt.
要是你照着“新闻”鼓吹的那一套去饮食、投资和思考，最后身体会垮、钱包会瘪、道德也会滑坡。

Other Recommendations
其他推荐

Twitter accounts like:
诸如以下的推特账号：

@AmuseChimp (my all-time favorite Twitter account)
来自@AmuseChimp（我有史以来最喜欢的推特账号）

@mmay3r

@nntaleb

Art De Vany (on Facebook)
阿特·德瓦尼（发布于脸书）

Genius is here, just unevenly distributed. [4]
天才无处不在，只是分布不均。[4]

Must-read. (Twitter thread on “intellectual compounding” by @zaoyang). [11]
必读。（@zaoyang 发布的关于“知识复利”的推特推文）[11]

There are actually some really good graphic novels out there. If you’re open to the cartoony element of it, Transmetropolitan [Warren Ellis], The Boys [Garth Ennis], Planetary [Warren Ellis], and The Sandman [Neil Gaiman]…some of these are, I think, among the finest works of art of our age. I also grew up as a boy reading comics, so I may be very biased toward those. [1]
实际上，市面上有不少相当出色的漫画小说。要是你不排斥其中的卡通元素，像《传道者》（沃伦·埃利斯 著）、《黑袍纠察队》（盖斯·恩尼斯 著）、《行星》（沃伦·埃利斯 著）以及《睡魔》（尼尔·盖曼 著）……我觉得，这些作品中有一些堪称我们这个时代最优秀的艺术创作。我从小就爱看漫画，所以可能对这些作品格外偏爱。[1]

Rick and Morty (TV show + comic book)
《瑞克和莫蒂》（电视剧及漫画）

Rick and Morty is the best show on television (IMHO, of course). Just watch the first episode—that’s all it takes. It’s Back to the Future meets The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
（依我看啊），《瑞克和莫蒂》堪称电视节目中的佼佼者。只需看第一集，你就会被吸引。它融合了《回到未来》与《银河系漫游指南》的精彩元素 。

The Rick and Morty comic [by Zac Gorman] is just as clever as the show.
扎克·戈尔曼创作的《瑞克和莫蒂》漫画，和动画剧集一样妙趣横生。

“You and Your Research” by Richard Hamming
理查德·汉明的《你与你的研究》

A beautiful essay, I highly recommend reading it. It’s ostensibly written for people who are in scientific research, but I think it applies across the board. It’s just an old-timer essay on how to do great work. It reminds me of much of what Richard Feynman used to say, although I think Hamming has put it more eloquently than almost anywhere else I’ve seen. [74]
这是一篇非常精彩的文章，强烈推荐一读。它看似是写给科研工作者的，但我认为其适用范围很广。这篇文章出自前辈之手，讲的是如何做出卓越成就。这让我想起理查德·费曼以往的诸多言论，不过我觉得，相比我看过的其他论述，汉明的表达要更为精妙。[74]