@naval · Apr 25, 2020
Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.
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You opened a sharp account for “ideas.” Twenty minutes later you have a mood, three half-quotes, and nothing you can ship. It felt like work. Their best post was on the page the whole time — X just never puts it first.
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Naval
@naval · Apr 25, 2020
Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.
@naval · buried
A calm mind, a fit body, a house full of love…
@naval · somewhere down here
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)…
@naval · still scrolling
Desire is a contract you make with yourself…
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Top posts · ranked
273.8K eng
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
198K eng
Play long-term games with long-term people.
142K eng
Earn with your mind, not your time.
96K eng
Specific knowledge is found by pursuing curiosity.
For people who open X to write — and stay to wander
What you thought was research
Highlights isn’t a greatest-hits list. It’s a shuffle. So the twenty minutes you spend “getting inspired” is twenty minutes inside whatever X felt like showing today — not the post that made them.
The posts that moved sit under the ones that didn’t. Rank up to 100 from that profile by likes, reposts, replies, or views — so you steal structure, not atmosphere.
Search stays beside the feed you’re already on —
/me, /user, /follows —
instead of another CSV, another Notion dump, another lost hour.
A banger in your likes is not a method. Pull the principles, then remix the shape for your topic with Gemini.
Then you stay on the profile
No new tab. No scavenger hunt. Dig, draft, and ship on x.com.
What actually traveled on this profile — ranked, not shuffled.
Find the thread without the advanced-search maze. Shortcuts + ⌘/.
What your follows just blew up — before the timeline buries it.
Stuck staring at a winner? Principles, remix, agents.
The idea you found at 11pm still ships. Queue it. See what lands.
The post is half the story. See the public thread around it.
Same ritual. Different ending.
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To first ranked dig
“I used to call it research. I was just wandering. The 273K post was sitting there the whole time — it showed up at #1 in under a minute. That’s when I started writing again.”
“Same twenty minutes. Now I leave with the structure of their top 10 — not a vague feeling I should post more.”
“I still open founder profiles before I write. I just don’t pretend the first five posts are the ones that matter.”
“I stopped collecting tabs like it was a job. The profile stays open. The winners sit next to it.”
Pricing
No free tier. Scout is $10 to see what actually traveled. Step up when you want remix, a queue, and agents.
$10/mo
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Looking is not finding. Highlights is a shuffle, not a greatest-hits list — so the posts that made them rarely sit on top. TweetDigger ranks that profile beside the feed so the next “quick look” actually ends in something you can write from.
Download tweetdigger-chrome.zip, unzip it, open
chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode,
click Load unpacked, and select the unzipped folder
(the one with manifest.json). Full steps are on the
Install section.
No for core research. TweetDigger uses your logged-in X session — no key scavenger hunt. Gemini powers AI remix via the companion server.
No. Pricing starts at Scout ($10/mo) for the full research dig — Highlights, search, Hits, conversations, drafts — with no AI. Prospector ($19) adds remix, schedule, and analytics. Excavator ($49) anchors the top for teams and agents.
Yes. Dig, rewrite, schedule, and search over stdio for Cursor and Claude when the companion server is running.
Install in 2 minutes
Chrome Web Store listing is pending. Until then, the zip takes about two minutes in Developer mode — then any profile on x.com.
Download TweetDigger.zipmanifest.json inside).
chrome://extensions into the address bar and press Enter.
manifest.json (not the zip itself).
x.com, enter your name / email / phone, then use the
sidebar.
Updating later? Remove the old TweetDigger card on
chrome://extensions, download the latest zip, and Load
unpacked again.
Growth hack: after your first dig, tap Share on X in the sidebar — your invite link tracks who downloads.