The word 'authenticity' gets misused as a synonym for expressing feelings or being true to a brand. Naval's version is stricter: authenticity is originative action — doing what you would do regardless of approval, validation, or whether anyone else is already doing it. The test is not whether your output feels personal, but whether its source is independent and therefore unreplicable.
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