The Meaning of Life

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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

A really unbounded, big question: what is the meaning and purpose of life? I'll give you three answers.

Answer 1: It's personal. You have to find your own meaning. Any piece of wisdom anybody else gives you, whether it's Buddha or me, is going to sound like nonsense. Fundamentally, you have to find it for yourself.

Answer 3: From what I've read in science, maybe there is a meaning to life. In physics, the arrow of time comes from entropy. The second law of thermodynamics states entropy only goes up. Living things (humans, plants, civilizations) are locally reversing entropy. In the process, we globally accelerate entropy until the heat death of the Universe. We're headed towards the heat death of the Universe. In that death, there's no concentrated energy, and everything is at the same energy level. We're essentially indistinguishable.