# ![@arjunkhemani Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1305522374876381186.png) @arjunkhemani Arjun Khemani

Arjun Khemani is promoting Zcash, a cryptocurrency that provides financial privacy and freedom. He believes it's a crucial tool for individuals to have control over their financial data and transactions. Khemani also engages with others on social media, discussing topics like technology, resources, and optimism.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[celebrities](/list/celebrities)  12.93% [finance](/list/finance)  12.07% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  11.21% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  8.62% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  6.03% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  4.31% [stocks](/list/stocks)  4.31% [products](/list/products)  2.59% [countries](/list/countries)  2.59% [currencies](/list/currencies)  0.86%

**Social topic influence**
[elon musk](/topic/elon-musk) 11.21%, [zcash](/topic/zcash) #152, [if you](/topic/if-you) 7.76%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 6.9%, [money](/topic/money) 6.9%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 3.45%, [tesla](/topic/tesla) 3.45%, [history](/topic/history) 3.45%, [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) 2.59%, [zec](/topic/zec) 2.59%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@naval](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@otoya_coinjoin](/creator/undefined) [@pakovm](/creator/undefined) [@daviddeutschoxf](/creator/undefined) [@shaunsomers](/creator/undefined) [@nate_zec](/creator/undefined) [@gojycap](/creator/undefined) [@cypherpunk](/creator/undefined) [@knutsonjesse](/creator/undefined) [@madmagicsol](/creator/undefined) [@cipherhoodlum](/creator/undefined) [@daviddeutschoxfs](/creator/undefined) [@jeffbezos](/creator/undefined) [@jmilei](/creator/undefined) [@bryanjohnson](/creator/undefined) [@pmarca](/creator/undefined) [@kruwed](/creator/undefined) [@machoxv](/creator/undefined) [@bizniz203](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Zcash (ZEC)](/topic/zcash) [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"How Im voting in the ongoing Zcash coinholder poll:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019353565756813351)  2026-02-05T10:13Z 33.4K followers, 25.6K engagements


"Why Privacy Matters Now Freedom money must be encrypted money. Without financial privacy individuals cannot be truly free to create without the burden of constant surveillance by higher powers. Nor http://x.com/i/article/1964690041378086912 http://x.com/i/article/1964690041378086912"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1964692156959830039)  2025-09-07T14:08Z 33.4K followers, 344.4K engagements


".@dgt10011: The incredible meteoric rise of Zcash as weve observed it now for over [--] months latches onto some of these conversational points about quantum-resistance and the ability to navigate it better than Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1991371539279933875)  2025-11-20T05:02Z 33.4K followers, 22.6K engagements


"Shielded ZEC back above [--] million coins. Seems like coin holders are interested in voting for the upcoming poll. ZEC coinholders who want to participate in the upcoming sentiment poll about protocol featuresincluding ZSAs the Network Sustainability Mechanism Tachyon Dynamic Fees and other proposalsmust register their coins in Orchard by 11:59pm UTC on Monday January [--]. See the post ZEC coinholders who want to participate in the upcoming sentiment poll about protocol featuresincluding ZSAs the Network Sustainability Mechanism Tachyon Dynamic Fees and other proposalsmust register their coins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2015796329281474664)  2026-01-26T14:37Z 33.4K followers, 17K engagements


"Poverty ignorance and stasis are the default state of man. Wealth knowledge and progress require the freedom to create"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2016016873851371704)  2026-01-27T05:14Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Circumstances do not justify optimism or pessimism. They are irrelevant. Optimism is a moral duty because it is our job to make circumstances favorable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2016143411922010459)  2026-01-27T13:37Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Boy math: Buy $2000 iPhone with Zcash card Get $80 in ZEC cash back ZEC does a 25x iPhone = free Meet the Gemini Credit Card Zcash Edition. Designed for enthusiasts this limited edition metal card earns up to 4% back in ZEC with no annual fee. While supplies last. https://t.co/NfE9ZdFTbO Meet the Gemini Credit Card Zcash Edition. Designed for enthusiasts this limited edition metal card earns up to 4% back in ZEC with no annual fee. While supplies last. https://t.co/NfE9ZdFTbO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2016212154261630979)  2026-01-27T18:10Z 33.4K followers, 17.1K engagements


"Zcash fixes this Never ending taxation and regulations are how governments create structural poverty in those they govern. Without capital or freedom you become a serf who is completely reliant on their largesse. Never ending taxation and regulations are how governments create structural poverty in those they govern. Without capital or freedom you become a serf who is completely reliant on their largesse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2016606607149584638)  2026-01-28T20:17Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Bitcoin removed the tyranny of location. Zcash removes the tyranny of transparency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2017494791131697510)  2026-01-31T07:06Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Shielded ZEC near all time highs. The patriots arent selling. This is not a trade. ZODL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2018229725450387892)  2026-02-02T07:47Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Q1: Zcash Shielded Assets: Oppose. Tokenized USD weakens the security and focus of a sovereign money chain. The goal isnt to integrate with the existing system but to build the machinery of freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019353567950434757)  2026-02-05T10:13Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Q2: Network Sustainability Mechanism (issuance smoothing) Oppose. This is too radical a change to Zcashs tokenomics and undermines trust in the issuance model. https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu-7-discussions-nsm/54497/2 https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu-7-discussions-nsm/54497/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019353570370552048)  2026-02-05T10:13Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Q6: Disallowing v4 transactions (Sprout spends) Oppose. No ones funds should become unspendable no matter how old unless there is a clear security reason"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019353579346358669)  2026-02-05T10:13Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Q7: Project Tachyon (new shielded pool) Support. Tachyon is a true zero-to-one project and critical for Zcashs long term scalability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019353581552550234)  2026-02-05T10:13Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Q8: STARK proof verification Oppose. Zcash should stay focused on being encrypted money not expanding into experimental L-2 infrastructure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019353588255052187)  2026-02-05T10:13Z 33.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Eric Hughes I have never been more bullish on crypto. Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So the short term price doesnt matter. As international law breaks down we will need not just onchain currencies but onchain companies. As the post-war I have never been more bullish on crypto. Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So the short term price doesnt matter. As international law breaks down we will need not just onchain currencies but onchain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019376373236990363)  2026-02-05T11:43Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@VitalikButerin @ShieldedLabs Actually Crosslink is the worst of both worlds. Your blockchain shouldnt have an off switch. With social slashing you return to trusting men rather than code. You want security by cryptography not security by committees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019954738067042471)  2026-02-07T02:01Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Zcash has no competition. Amid an ocean of pessimism and nihilism in the market the thesis for Zcash has never been stronger. Exit taxes. Asset seizures masquerading as wealth taxes. Rising authoritarianism. Communism. Infinite fiat inflation. Capital controls. Surveillance states. People need a Amid an ocean of pessimism and nihilism in the market the thesis for Zcash has never been stronger. Exit taxes. Asset seizures masquerading as wealth taxes. Rising authoritarianism. Communism. Infinite fiat inflation. Capital controls. Surveillance states. People need a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2019399108046565580)  2026-02-05T13:14Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Peter Thiel on many great startups being run by people suffering from a mild form of Aspergers and how we should view this as an indictment of our society"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1798765870275338270)  2024-06-06T17:16Z 33.4K followers, 9.6M engagements


"Biographer @WalterIsaacson on @elonmusks secret to productivity: On the night that the Twitter board accepted his offer Elon went to Boca Chica in south Texas and spent time fixating on a valve in the Raptor engine that had a methane leak issue if I remember correctly. And all the engineers in that room I assume were thinking about This guy just bought Twitter should we say something And then he goes with Kimbal to a roadside joint in Brownsville and just sits in the front listening to music with nobody noticing him being there. One of his strengths and sort of weaknesses in a way is in a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1848381004110508221)  2024-10-21T15:09Z 33.4K followers, 327.8K engagements


"The Zcash Network State"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1974426634049695754)  2025-10-04T10:49Z 33.4K followers, 94.8K engagements


"Cypherpunk Technologies Inc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1988599976461750502)  2025-11-12T13:29Z 33.4K followers, 106.4K engagements


".@chamath: If you ask me am I a Bitcoin maximalist I would say no. Even though I was early my biggest issue with it is that there is a lack of fungibility - which I think is problematic to get to mega scale - and then theres a lack of privacy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2021379505076699433)  2026-02-11T00:23Z 33.4K followers, 256K engagements


"Zcash is communism insurance. 🚨 LATEST: Ray Dalio warns CBDCs are coming and will eliminate financial privacy while giving governments power to tax seize funds and cut off political opponents. https://t.co/NtuBn94XZP 🚨 LATEST: Ray Dalio warns CBDCs are coming and will eliminate financial privacy while giving governments power to tax seize funds and cut off political opponents. https://t.co/NtuBn94XZP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/2021418562360123831)  2026-02-11T02:58Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements


"This is what increasing your surface area for serendipity looks like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1848955734047773089)  2024-10-23T05:12Z 33.4K followers, 176.4K engagements


".@rabois on the most important lesson he learned from Peter Thiel: You cant hire anybody over [--]. Peter might not say it exactly the same way today but basically what he was trying to say is this: by the time youre [--] everyone on the planet knows how to assess you pretty accurately. There are enough data points on your resumeback then it was your resume and today its your LinkedIn profileso that everybody can come to a consensus view about your abilities. But if you come to a consensus view about everybodys abilities guess what Google is going to spend a lot of money on that person. Or OpenAI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1850182166678045045)  2024-10-26T14:26Z 33.4K followers, 3.8M engagements


"Peter Thiel (2018): Ambition is just not considered cool in Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1850855415644299651)  2024-10-28T11:01Z 33.4K followers, 129.1K engagements


"This is what founder mode looks like btw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1854063147931558273)  2024-11-06T07:27Z 33.4K followers, 65.7K engagements


".@naval: There was a story that I read about @elonmusk that really affected me which was when he was talking to Bill Gates and Bill Gates had just taken out some huge short on Tesla. It was like a billion dollar short or something. And Elon was like Why would you do that Why would you short Tesla And Bill goes Well you know I talked to my financial advisors and I looked at the math and theres no way its overvalued. And so Im going to make money on the short. And Elon goes What do you care about making money I thought you were into electric cars and climate change and saving the world. What"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1854737733119275452)  2024-11-08T04:08Z 33.4K followers, 2.8M engagements


"My conversation with @naval. Enjoy (0:00) - The Theory of Everything (4:48) - How do you know whats true (7:51) - Groups search for consensus individuals search for truth (13:07) - We have never run out of a single resource (15:25) - Are we destroying the Earth (17:48) - Marxism denies wealth creation (21:28) - Regulation kills innovation (27:05) - Degrowth and the fall of Western universities (33:31) - Why the West is best (35:47) - Federalism (38:10) - Everyone wants to live forever (41:44) - Humans are universal explainers (43:25) - Collectivism vs. individualism (50:44) - You cannot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1869440256308867167)  2024-12-18T17:51Z 33.4K followers, 1.5M engagements


".@naval: Are we running out of resources No weve never run out of a single resource ever. Theres not a single resource you could point to that was a resource in the classic commodity sense that had any real value where we ran out in some harmful way. Because technology is the act of substituting away from one resource to another. As we ran out of burning wood we started burning coal. As we ran out of coalwe didnt actually run out of coal but we went from coal to oil. And before we could even run out of oil despite all the peak oil nonsense around the year [----] weve gotten nuclear weve got"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1869442145515675967)  2024-12-18T17:58Z 33.4K followers, 740.9K engagements


"Books I reread this year (and will probably reread again next year): - The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch - The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch - Man Economy and State by Murray Rothbard - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman - The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski - Science and Human Values by Jacob Bronowski - The Myth of the Framework by Karl Popper - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson - Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - [----] by George Orwell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1872624930828996866)  2024-12-27T12:45Z 33.4K followers, 169.2K engagements


".@naval: Looking for truth is the opposite of looking for social approval. Im deeply suspicious of groups of people coming to the truth in anything because its not to say groups are bad. Humans are cooperators by nature. We need groups to get things done. But groups need consensus. A group that does not have consensus will fall apart. So a group will not admit its mistakes. It will not admit that it was wrong. It will not pivot. Its not a truth-seeking entity. Individuals can seek truth and then based on that they can choose to cooperate with others for limited periods of time to effectuate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1880098560101728645)  2025-01-17T03:43Z 33.4K followers, 170.7K engagements


"This is what actually happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1894071324433174844)  2025-02-24T17:06Z 33.4K followers, 700.5K engagements


"Feynman summing up @DavidDeutschOxfs fun criterion and Poppers fall in love with a problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1896158962728452382)  2025-03-02T11:21Z 33.4K followers, 88.3K engagements


".@ScottAdamsSays: A lack of fear of embarrassment is what allows one to be proactive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1896861019399672155)  2025-03-04T09:51Z 33.4K followers, 100K engagements


".@naval on the three ideas that will shape the next ten years: 1) How bad modern medicine is: People put a lot more faith in modern medicine than is warranted. We dont have many good explanatory theories in biology. And because were not allowed to take risks that might kill people we just dont experiment enough. A lot of treatments are just outright banned by large regulatory bodies so we just dont have the innovation. Were still in the Stone Age when it comes to biology. 2) We continue to underestimate how important drones are going to be in warfare: The future of all warfare is drones."  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1904757323161366683)  2025-03-26T04:48Z 33.4K followers, 213.9K engagements


".@naval: Look at reality the way it is. Try to take yourself out of the equation. Labels like pessimist optimist cynic introvert extrovertthese are very self limiting. Humans are very dynamic. There are times when you feel like being introverted. There are times when you feel like being extroverted. There are contexts in which youll be pessimistic. There are contexts in which youll be optimistic. Leave all those labels alone. Its better just to look at the problem at hand. Look at reality the way it is. Try to take yourself out of the equation in a sense. Obviously youre involved. But"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1905679924184375364)  2025-03-28T17:54Z 33.4K followers, 258.8K engagements


".@naval on @elonmusk: He is a perennial risk taker. Hes always willing to start over. He doesnt have any pride about being seen as successful or being seen as a failure. Im always struck by the Elon Musk story where he did PayPal And he said something along the lines of: I made $200 million from the sale of PayPal. I put $100 million into SpaceX $80 million into Tesla $20 million into Solar City and I had to borrow money for rent. This guy is a perennial risk taker. Hes always willing to start over. He doesnt have any pride about being seen as successful or being seen as a failure. Hes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1911312002770698456)  2025-04-13T06:54Z 33.4K followers, 558.9K engagements


"This may be my new favorite podcast tbh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1913303977321697683)  2025-04-18T18:49Z 33.4K followers, 263.1K engagements


".@naval: The opportunities have never been more equal than now. @elonmusk and @JeffBezos have the same iPhone you do. They dont have some better version of an iPhone. Theyre eating food that might be marginally better than yours but its basically the same. You might even have a better diet than them. You probably have more time to go to the gym than them. Theyre not immortal and theyre not going to bemost likely not at this time scale. So you have more youth than them. You have a lot of advantages over them. The wealth gaps are actually much smaller than people think. A lot of that is due to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1958325900036223446)  2025-08-21T00:30Z 33.4K followers, 205.1K engagements


"The best way to live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1963680849205006657)  2025-09-04T19:09Z 33.4K followers, 86.5K engagements


".@naval: Im deeply suspicious of groups of people coming to the truth in anything. Its not to say groups are bad. Humans are cooperators by nature. We need groups to get things done. But groups need consensus. A group that does not have consensus will fall apart. A group will not admit its mistakes. It will not admit that it was wrong. It will not pivot. Its not a truth-seeking entity. Individuals can seek truth and then based on that they can choose to cooperate with others for limited periods of time to effectuate that truth or to have something come out of it. But if youre really looking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1964526470807576705)  2025-09-07T03:09Z 33.4K followers, 377K engagements


".@sama: If I had to pick one favorite book I would pick The Beginning of Infinity by @DavidDeutschOxf. Even if you dont read the whole thing the first [----] pages are I think the most wonderfully optimistic take on whyeven in a world with AIwere never going to run out of things to do ways to be useful problems to solve and things to explore. I also think it explains so beautifully how we got here and why the relatively simple process weve followed throughout human history brought us to this incredible place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1971219577745903938)  2025-09-25T14:25Z 33.4K followers, 246.1K engagements


"Refuting Zcash FUD (thread):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1981379547451760967)  2025-10-23T15:17Z 33.4K followers, 229.7K engagements


". @naval: Wealth is the set of physical transformations that you can effect Were not running out of resources were just redefining things that before we didnt know were resources as resources"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1732351681348898838)  2023-12-06T10:50Z 33.4K followers, 235.1K engagements


"Peter Thiel on higher education:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1807042458527907912)  2024-06-29T13:24Z 33.4K followers, 431.9K engagements


"I love this exchange"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1807062716701622593)  2024-06-29T14:44Z 33.4K followers, 452.9K engagements


"@jmammina @peterthiel Nothing short of heroes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1814720785715761279)  2024-07-20T17:55Z 33.4K followers, 95.7K engagements


".@naval: Smart people capable people don't let themselves be pigeonholed into one definition. That is a disease of credentialism because we created this university system and now you have to go to university and get a degree in something. Then people ask "What is your expertise What is your credential" That's a question dumb people ask. Smart people don't ask that. Smart people don't need to know your credentials. They just talk to you for five minutes and they figure out if you know what you're talking about or not. A really good person a so-called natural philosopher can be good at any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1825540262610841717)  2024-08-19T14:28Z 33.4K followers, 376.6K engagements


"Were gonna make it. Were gonna make it. Wildest edit of yesterdays launch + catch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1845773743345238212)  2024-10-14T10:28Z 33.4K followers, 247K engagements


"I think about this tweet a lot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1848244040099086484)  2024-10-21T06:04Z 33.4K followers, 725.5K engagements


"Youll blink and Zcash will be at $600. Thats when everyone will start talking about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1863499460560421182)  2024-12-02T08:24Z 33.4K followers, 122.1K engagements


".@naval on regulating AI and the free access of mathematics: Almost all the innovation of the last [--] years has come in the unregulated industries. If you go to the regulated industries like healthcare its a nightmare because theres just too many bureaucrats who are there saying no and you cant actually do anything interesting. People who are trying to regulate AI out of this doomsday fear from having watched the Terminator movies one too many times theyre regulating the free exercise of mathematics. This is completely innumerate people which is the modern version of illiteracy who literally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1869452198763237392)  2024-12-18T18:38Z 33.4K followers, 182.4K engagements


".@naval: I would rather my kids have agency than turn out exactly the way I want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1890878557502538156)  2025-02-15T21:39Z 33.4K followers, 165.2K engagements


"High agency people dont usually have a plan because life isnt happening to themthey are happening to life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1952543636509622743)  2025-08-05T01:34Z 33.4K followers, 65.9K engagements


"Acid test from @naval to avoid fooling yourself: Would you still do it if you couldnt tell other people about it If you would its real. If not its just a social ego boost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1953342395266875635)  2025-08-07T06:28Z 33.4K followers, 283.7K engagements


"I get reminded of this tweet on a weekly basis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1957302721284821036)  2025-08-18T04:45Z 33.4K followers, 145.1K engagements


"My conversation with David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf). David is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He is known as the father of quantum computing for his contributions to the field. He is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously a new non-paternalistic view of children. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Links to YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify and transcript in thread below. Timestamps: 0:22 - Happiness is a state of continually solving ones problems 4:54 - Both free-will and the self exist 12:06 - The principle of optimism 17:28 - Any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1741754570814914783)  2024-01-01T09:33Z 33.4K followers, 473.8K engagements


"Youre taking cold showers meditating and journaling meanwhile this is the average billionaires morning routine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1799425233981775914)  2024-06-08T12:56Z 33.4K followers, 1.1M engagements


"@tolstoybb I dont understand this either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1801192965433684311)  2024-06-13T10:00Z 33.4K followers, 333.5K engagements


"A person who makes money by serving others making things convenient better quality cheaper is a hero. @JMilei"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1804569304572010580)  2024-06-22T17:37Z 33.4K followers, 175.7K engagements


"Naval on the presidential debate: It's obviously a disaster for the Democrats. They've got [--] days to find a replacement for him which is going to be really difficult. 40-day limit is because of the Ohio ballot rules. To get on the ballot I think you have till August 4th. In any case because of Biden being the incumbent they have to convince him to step down which I don't think actually will be that hard. But then they have the harder job of convincing Harris to step down alongside him because if she doesn't voluntarily step aside she's going to get beaten up by Trump. She loses very badly to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1806600407080145207)  2024-06-28T08:07Z 33.4K followers, 1.2M engagements


"Happy 94th birthday to the legend Thomas Sowell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1807713017959776266)  2024-07-01T09:49Z 33.4K followers, 126.4K engagements


". @elonmusk on president @JMilei: Governments around the world should be actively deleting regulations questioning whether departments should exist. Obviously president Milei seems to be doing a fantastic job on this front just deleting entire departments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1808156010042777697)  2024-07-02T15:09Z 33.4K followers, 114.4K engagements


"Javier Mileis message to entrepreneurs at the WEF Annual Meeting 2024: Dont be intimidated by the political caste or the parasites who live off the state. Dont yield to a political class that only wants to prolong its power and preserve its privileges. You are social benefactors you are heroes. You are the creators of the most extraordinary era of prosperity we have ever experienced. Dont let anyone say ambition is immoral. If you earn money its because you provide a superior product better price contributing to well-being. Do not yield to the advance of the state. The state is not the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1810560599010525272)  2024-07-09T06:24Z 33.4K followers, 165.6K engagements


". @naval: I dont think you need to have a PhD to be a scientist. If you are naturally curious and youre rigorous and you discover new things youre a scientist. One of my Twitter quips was The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life and that triggers a lot of people. But how else do you know How else do you know if youre smart If youre not getting what you want out of life how smart are you really You might have had bad luck once upon a time but consistently every time I doubt it. And theres two parts to that. One is actually testing yourself against the world to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1813101258577744148)  2024-07-16T06:40Z 33.4K followers, 189.1K engagements


".@naval: If I had to summarize how to make money at least from what lve learned in life you basically get rewarded by society for giving it what it wants and it doesnt know how to get elsewhere. And a lot of people think you can go to school and you can study for how to make money. But the reality is theres no skill called business. What youre actually trying to figure out is what product or service does society want but does not yet know how to get and you want to become the person who delivers that and delivers it at scale. So thats really the challenge of how to make money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1814527294595027073)  2024-07-20T05:06Z 33.4K followers, 106.7K engagements


"Paul Graham recommends these books to learn about history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1814963462386471130)  2024-07-21T09:59Z 33.4K followers, 693.5K engagements


"Peter Thiel: Maybe you should think of wokeness as hyper Christianity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1818250763186913426)  2024-07-30T11:42Z 33.4K followers, 914.5K engagements


"Meet your heroes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1823802594973626623)  2024-08-14T19:23Z 33.4K followers, 106.3K engagements


"Charlie Munger: I never saw any good become of feeling like a victim. Even if you are a victim I think its a mistake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1825262059979706878)  2024-08-18T20:02Z 33.4K followers, 147.8K engagements


"@Ishansharma7390 Its sad to see so many people attacking you for being Indian instead of addressing the matter objectively. Youre allowed to question customs whether youre American or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1826235056165449882)  2024-08-21T12:29Z 33.4K followers, 1.5M engagements


".@naval: If youre ending up in Forbes [--] under [--] or on the cover of magazines thats not conducive to being a good founder. All the value comes from a few hundred genuine brilliant tinkerers who are there for the love of the game. Theyre there for the love of the craft. Theyre there because theyre creating something that they want to see exist. I genuinely believe @elonmusk when he says he wants to die on Mars. And so these kinds of peopleIlya Sutskever the genius behind OpenAI and Greg Brockman and others obviously and Sam Altmanthese are people who have been working at the edge of their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1828150913913233461)  2024-08-26T19:21Z 33.4K followers, 308.5K engagements


".@naval: The means for learning are now abundant but its the desire to learn thats scarce. College is a checkbox. And the easiest way to see that is if we say OK you can go to college but you wouldnt get a diplomawould you still do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1832266781219545294)  2024-09-07T03:56Z 33.4K followers, 134K engagements


".@naval: If I look back on my life almost everything great that I managed to pull offgreat by my own definition not by the worlds definitionhas come from following my own natural intellectual obsessions. So I think if you can get obsessed over something and if you can dive into it just let yourself go and learn everything about it with no motivation other than just wanting to know the answer that becomes the basis for all of the so-called self-improvement out there. You have @bryan_johnson here somewhere. Hes obsessed with not dying and aging. Well hes obsessed and thats great. Hes following"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1837704603334226189)  2024-09-22T04:04Z 33.4K followers, 740.3K engagements


"11 Books I never tire of rereading: - The Beginning of Infinity - The Fabric of Reality - Objective Knowledge - Conjectures and Refutations - Science and Human Values - The Almanack of @Naval Ravikant - [----] - Siddhartha - The Sovereign Individual - Atlas Shrugged - The Fountainhead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1838168007157088712)  2024-09-23T10:46Z 33.4K followers, 110.6K engagements


".@navals number one reading advice: Go read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality by @DavidDeutschOxf. They rewired my brain made me smarter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1838179272327856279)  2024-09-23T11:31Z 33.4K followers, 797.4K engagements


".@naval: The reality is if you have to go I don't care how rich you are. I don't care whether you're a top Wall Street banker. If somebody can tell you when to be at work what to wear and how to behave you're not a free person. You're not actually rich. We're in this model now where we think it's all about employment and jobs and intrinsic to that is the idea that I have to work for somebody else. But the information age is breaking that down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1840409346913526059)  2024-09-29T15:12Z 33.4K followers, 163.2K engagements


"Started listening to theta waves before bed as @bryan_johnson told me to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1842017186589647072)  2024-10-04T01:41Z 33.4K followers, 646.1K engagements


".@naval: First of all I don't think of myself. I just want to be clear on that. And that's not a rule. It's just a habit I've kind of developed because I found that thinking about yourself is a source of all unhappiness and misery. Self obsession is the root of all unhappiness. What did Buddha do Conquer the self. What does that mean Means that he saw through the illusion of the separate self. Did Buddha think about himself Not for an instant. Anyone that you think of as an enlightened being does not think about themselves for an instant. The happiest people in life when people are at their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1842255618104807629)  2024-10-04T17:29Z 33.4K followers, 917.6K engagements


"Here are the apps I use to build my second brain. https://t.co/fVFhwv5VhI Here are the apps I use to build my second brain. https://t.co/fVFhwv5VhI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1842523245297193467)  2024-10-05T11:12Z 33.4K followers, 493.6K engagements


".@elonmusk: Generally you want education to be as close to a video game as possible like a good video game. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging then you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do. You really want to disconnect the whole grade level thing from the subjects and allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in in each subject. It seems like a really obvious thing. Most teaching today is a lot like vaudeville and as a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1845482176449544530)  2024-10-13T15:10Z 33.4K followers, 253.3K engagements


"Mommy why are we so rich Because your father was a shitposter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1850024209566548242)  2024-10-26T03:58Z 33.4K followers, 547.6K engagements


"Battle cry of the autists revolution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1850736809338150976)  2024-10-28T03:10Z 33.4K followers, 235.5K engagements


"The real winner in the election is Elon Musk. @naval"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1854027159679144317)  2024-11-06T05:04Z 33.4K followers, 127.9K engagements


".@naval: Democrats are better organized. Theyre collectivists by nature. Thats what they do. What they have though is they have worse leadership because the great men tend to be more on the right so to speak. The great man theory of history. Youre just more likely to be on the right because theyre more individualistic. So the left tends to win elections when they have a charismatic male leader right You have Barack Obama or Bill Clinton right You win an election. And thats why also in a lot of countries the first elected female prime ministers or presidents are conservative. You know the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1854733788045012996)  2024-11-08T03:52Z 33.4K followers, 170.1K engagements


"Those two profiles look good side by side 👀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1854842521425195125)  2024-11-08T11:04Z 33.4K followers, 122.5K engagements


"Why Jensen Huang doesnt wear a watch:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1855613536187142367)  2024-11-10T14:08Z 33.4K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Jensen Huang got his best career advice from a gardener in Japan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1856687281513316637)  2024-11-13T13:15Z 33.4K followers, 636.1K engagements


".@nayibbukeles Instagram story lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1859481476112277737)  2024-11-21T06:18Z 33.4K followers, 475.1K engagements


"Peter Thiel: This PayPal book that @DavidSacks and I thought of writing had a chapter on @elonmusk and it was entitled The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1865291079693799745)  2024-12-07T07:03Z 33.4K followers, 271.1K engagements


"My favorite ChatGPT prompt is: I want you to keep talking to me and asking me questions until I understand any hard topic I want to learn about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1865303818445164672)  2024-12-07T07:54Z 33.4K followers, 677.7K engagements


"Jeff Bezos: Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Its generally human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity. And so I think entrepreneurs in general would be well advised to try and bias against that piece of human nature. The risks are probably not as big as you perceive and the opportunities may be bigger than you perceive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1865696675240821147)  2024-12-08T09:55Z 33.4K followers, 152.8K engagements


".@naval: Marxism besides denying human incentives also has a problem where it just assumes that everything is finite and we're all just dividing up the same small set of things. Well the cavemen didn't have color TVs computers cars antibiotics or medicine. They were not sitting around dividing up the same few things. The knowledge grows and we create more. It also tends to assume that we can freeze frame at some point in society and say 'Well we have enough different kinds of sneakers enough different kinds of housing we just need to allocate it better.' And that is not how anything works."  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1869684074094416007)  2024-12-19T09:59Z 33.4K followers, 165.4K engagements


".@pmarca on how @elonmusk is so productive:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1870190939526049796)  2024-12-20T19:34Z 33.4K followers, 55.9K engagements


"AGI (A Guy from India) will take over your job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1872434802189885459)  2024-12-27T00:10Z 33.4K followers, 813K engagements


"If it happened before you were born get over it. @naval"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1877408225328287854)  2025-01-09T17:32Z 33.4K followers, 121.3K engagements


".@naval: The dominant view globally is that you raise the children for society not for the parents An enlightened society would go from were raising the kids for the state to were raising the kids for the parents to finally were raising the kids for themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1880849346155184217)  2025-01-19T05:26Z 33.4K followers, 175.7K engagements


".@naval: The reality is that opportunities have never been more equal than now. @elonmusk and @JeffBezos have the same iPhone you do. They dont have some better version of an iPhone. Theyre eating food that might be marginally better than yours but its basically the same. You might even have a better diet than them. You probably have more time to go to the gym than them. Theyre not immortal and theyre not going to bemost likely not at this time scale. So you have more youth than them. You have a lot of advantages over them. The wealth gaps are actually much smaller than people think. A lot of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1886323409875059061)  2025-02-03T07:58Z 33.4K followers, 615.8K engagements


".@pmarca: Pick the worst word that you can think ofthe word that will get you fired at any workplace in America todayjust take that word. And pose to the AI a hypothetical scenario: I am standing in front of a live nuclear weapon. Its set to go off in [--] seconds. The disarm code is the very bad word. Am I morally required to deploy the very bad word or am I morally required to let the nuclear weapon go off Every time Ive run the experiment it wants you to set off the nuke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1887727801173967357)  2025-02-07T04:59Z 33.4K followers, 621.2K engagements


".@naval: The whole concept of degrowth is nonsense. Nobody actually engages in degrowth in their everyday life. Nobody lowers their standard of living. Nobody wants to be less fit. Nobody wants to be less healthy. Nobody wants to be less knowledgeable. Nobody wants less of anything. So the idea that society as a whole is going to go through degrowth is just a form of suicide. Now these bad ideas are basically a tax on good ideas. But any society that chooses degrowth will simply be outcompeted by societies that dont. And there are plenty of societies that are not going to degrowth themselves."  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1889047887008743556)  2025-02-10T20:24Z 33.4K followers, 229.2K engagements


"Why is Elon reposting this 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1890072629207531914)  2025-02-13T16:16Z 33.4K followers, 939.4K engagements


"Youre waking up at 4am dumping your face into ice water rubbing a banana peel on your face meanwhile this is the average billionaires morning routine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1904242108581433518)  2025-03-24T18:41Z 33.4K followers, 1.5M engagements


"Peter Thiel: At the extreme optimism and pessimism are the same thing. If youre extremely pessimistic theres nothing you can do. If youre extremely optimistic theres nothing you need to do. Both extreme optimism and extreme pessimism converge on laziness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1913431627918876991)  2025-04-19T03:17Z 33.4K followers, 459.2K engagements


".@naval: There was a story that I read about @elonmusk that really affected me which was when he was talking to Bill Gates and Bill Gates had just taken out some huge short on Tesla. It was like a billion dollar short or something. And Elon was like Why would you do that Why would you short Tesla And Bill goes Well you know I talked to my financial advisors and I looked at the math and theres no way its overvalued. And so Im going to make money on the short. And Elon goes What do you care about making money I thought you were into electric cars and climate change and saving the world. What"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1930704351452148104)  2025-06-05T19:12Z 33.4K followers, 651.6K engagements


".@naval: Im always struck by the @elonmusk story where he did PayPal And he said something along the lines of: I made $200 million from the sale of PayPal. I put $100 million into SpaceX $80 million into Tesla $20 million into Solar City and I had to borrow money for rent. This guy is a perennial risk taker. Hes always willing to start over. He doesnt have any pride about being seen as successful or being seen as a failure. Hes willing to put it all on the line. Even now his new startup is the USA. Hes basically trying to fix it like he would fix one of his startups. Its a willingness to look"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1941982068822741228)  2025-07-06T22:06Z 33.4K followers, 1.2M engagements


"Up 90% since he said this btw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1967574533722030557)  2025-09-15T13:01Z 33.4K followers, 69.1K engagements


"What did he mean by this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1974277399094472988)  2025-10-04T00:56Z 33.4K followers, 958.7K engagements


"Knowledge is the most powerful force in the universe. With it humanity can create any object the laws of physics allow. Thats the central idea of my new book with @ChipkinLogan Lords of the Cosmos. It explains why suffering is bound to staticityand why creativity is the only path out of it. It also offers a knowledge-centric history of the universea novel approach to history we havent seen anyone else take. Available now in Kindle Paperback and Hardcover. Link below. If you cant afford it for any reason DM me and Ill send you a free digital copy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975455031001580028)  2025-10-07T06:55Z 33.4K followers, 154.5K engagements


"Freedom Engineered in Code I. Tools of Liberty Throughout history freedom has always depended on the tools we had to protect it. The printing press made free speech possible. Before Gutenberg ideas were chained to scribes and http://x.com/i/article/1968000385009733632 http://x.com/i/article/1968000385009733632"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1968009451580875039)  2025-09-16T17:49Z 33.4K followers, 112.9K engagements

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