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Naval Almanack Life Guide

Answers wealth, judgment, happiness and life-philosophy questions using ideas from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

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Repository
kangarooking/cangjie-skill
Stars
11,998
Licence
MIT
Files
15 files

What it does

This is a bundle of written guidance that teaches an AI assistant to answer questions about wealth-building, decision-making, happiness, and life philosophy in the style of the book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. When you ask a matching question, the agent reads the main SKILL.md, picks one relevant topic card from the references folder, and answers using that framework. It also tells you when a question is outside the book's scope, such as stock picking or crisis situations.

Great for

  • People who want a structured, book-based perspective on building wealth or making big life decisions
  • Readers of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant who want help applying its ideas to their own situation
  • Anyone trying to build a reading habit or reduce phone or social media dependence

Skip it if

  • Specific investment picks, stock selection, or financial product advice, which the skill explicitly excludes
  • Clinical depression, psychiatric crises, or suicidal thoughts; the skill directs users to professional or emergency help instead
  • Legal, medical, or personal safety decisions, where the skill says to stop applying its methods and seek professional help

Try asking

  • “How can I start building wealth if I'm paid by the hour and want to stop trading time for money?”
  • “I can't decide between a startup job and a stable corporate role. Help me think through it.”
  • “I keep scrolling short videos for hours. Give me a plan to cut back.”
  • “What are the main ideas of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant on reading and learning?”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Naval Almanack Life GuideInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 15 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    naval-almanack-single.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip naval-almanack-single.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip naval-almanack-single.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Ask a specific question in the domains listed (wealth, decisions, happiness, relationships, reading) so the agent can load the right topic card.
  • Treat the answers as a book-based framework for reflection, not as professional financial, medical, or legal advice.
  • Note that the file list references some cards (for example screen-detox.md, self-liberation.md) that are not included in this bundle, so some routes may not fully resolve.

What's inside

  • BUILD_MANIFEST.json
  • references/capabilities/acceptance.md
  • references/capabilities/decision-heuristics.md
  • references/capabilities/game-selection.md
  • references/capabilities/happiness-skill.md
  • references/capabilities/honesty-communication.md
  • references/capabilities/hourly-rate-time.md
  • references/capabilities/identity-work.md
  • references/capabilities/judgment-training.md
  • references/capabilities/life-meaning.md
  • references/capabilities/long-term-compounding.md
  • references/capabilities/monkey-mind-meditation.md
  • references/capabilities/peer-selection.md
  • references/capabilities/reading-metaskill.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from kangarooking/cangjie-skill under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.