The Naval Tweetstorm Series, Part 8: Iterated games and the core law of the universe

Part 8 of 39 essays in response to Naval's famous thread.

Series intro

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“Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”

The first time I read Naval’s eighth tweet several years ago, and possibly the second and thi…