What Naval Ravikant thinks about taste
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Naval Ravikant has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingJudgment starts from specific reasoning and, once refined enough, becomes taste or intuition.
Their wordsYou start with reasoning and then you build up your judgment. And then when your judgment is sufficiently refined, it just becomes taste or intuition or gut feel, and that’s what you operate on. But you have to start from the specific.