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- 01
Feb 18, 2026 · 52m E155
A Motorcycle for the Mind
If you want to learn, do 0:00 Vibe coding is the new product management 2:13 Training models is the new coding 6:49 Is traditional software engineering dead?...
- 02
Oct 30, 2025 · 52m E154
Curate People
The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 0:00 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 3:49 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 6:45 It Just...
- 03
Oct 7, 2025 · 41m E153
In the Arena
Inspiration All the Way Down 0:00 Life is Lived in the Arena 2:40 If You Want to Learn, Do 4:51 In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 6:...
- 04
Oct 2, 2025 · 6m E152
Find the Simplest Thing That Works
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- 05
Sep 29, 2025 · 3m E151
Good Products Are Hard to Vary
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- 06
Sep 23, 2025 · 3m E150
Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured
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- 07
Sep 22, 2025 · 3m E149
The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time
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- 08
Sep 21, 2025 · 4m E148
It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature
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- 09
Aug 29, 2025 · 1m E148
Get in The Ring
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- 10
Aug 26, 2025 · 4m E147
Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
Transcript: http://nav.al/agency
- 11
Aug 7, 2025 · 1m E146
Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did
Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect
- 12
Aug 3, 2025 · 2m E145
Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval's Chief of Staff
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- 13
Jul 31, 2025 · 2m E144
You Have to Enjoy It a Lot
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- 14
Jul 30, 2025 · 1m · S143
Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action
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- 15
Jul 26, 2025 · 2m E142
When You Truly Work for Yourself
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- 16
Jul 25, 2025 · 1m E141
In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
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- 17
Jul 22, 2025 · 1m E140
If You Want to Learn, Do
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- 18
Jul 18, 2025 · 2m E139
Life is Lived in the Arena
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- 19
Jul 16, 2025 · 2m E138
Inspiration all the way down
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- 20
Oct 11, 2024 · 1h 25m E137
The Deutsch Files IV
Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34 Emergence Is Fundamental 3:18 Constructor Theory Could Transform Multiple Fields 8:30 Innovation Often...
- 21
Feb 17, 2024 · 59m E136
The Deutsch Files III
Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00 Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05 The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48 Kn...
- 22
Jan 26, 2024 · 1h 14m E135
The Deutsch Files II
The universality of computation and explanation 0:00 The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56 Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57 Evolution is n...
- 23
Jan 11, 2024 · 54m E134
The Deutsch Files I
Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08 ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36 Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35 The Binary of Personh...
- 24
Aug 11, 2023 · 34m E133
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
Popper's Impact 0:00 Creative Guesses 2:18 Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25 Taking Theories Seriously 10:25 New Paradigms 15:58 Foundations...
- 25
Feb 11, 2023 · 43m
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
Introduction 0:00 The Human Race 2:11 Knowledge Creation 12:34 AGI 15:50 Taking Children Seriously 23:30 Good Explanations 27:49 Quantum Computers 36:35 — Tr...
- 26
Apr 14, 2022 · 25m
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00 The Ethereum community 1:22 The DAO hack 2:34 Vitalik's finest and worst moments in protocol politics...
- 27
Apr 8, 2022 · 46m
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
Introduction 0:00 Haseeb's background 0:22 Vitalik's background 2:43 A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02 Eth trades efficiency for transparency...
- 28
Dec 22, 2021 · 52m
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1
- 29
Dec 13, 2021 · 2m
To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
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- 30
Dec 10, 2021 · 2m
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
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- 31
Dec 8, 2021 · 2m
Groups Never Admit Failure
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- 32
Dec 6, 2021 · 2m
Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
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- 33
Dec 3, 2021 · 2m
Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
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- 34
Nov 29, 2021 · 2m
The Poverty of Compromise
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- 35
Nov 24, 2021 · 2m
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
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- 36
Nov 22, 2021 · 1m
Don't Rely on Credibility Stamps
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- 37
Nov 19, 2021 · 1m
One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
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- 38
Nov 17, 2021 · 3m
Ideas Are the New Oil
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- 39
Nov 15, 2021 · 2m
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
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- 40
Nov 12, 2021 · 2m
Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
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- 41
Nov 10, 2021 · 43s
If You Can't Program It, You Don't Understand It
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- 42
Nov 8, 2021 · 1m
The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
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- 43
Nov 3, 2021 · 3m
Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
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- 44
Nov 1, 2021 · 1m
Where Are the Aliens?
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- 45
Oct 30, 2021 · 2m
It's Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can't Be Blown
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- 46
Oct 27, 2021 · 1m
More Compute Power Doesn't Produce AGI
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- 47
Oct 25, 2021 · 1m
We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
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- 48
Oct 22, 2021 · 2m
Humans Are Exceptional
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- 49
Oct 20, 2021 · 2m
Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
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- 50
Oct 18, 2021 · 3m
There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
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- 51
Oct 15, 2021 · 2m
No Truth Can Be Justified
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- 52
Oct 8, 2021 · 1m
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
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- 53
Jul 2, 2021 · 1h 6m
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
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- 54
May 24, 2021 · 2m
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
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- 55
May 17, 2021 · 1m
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
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- 56
May 14, 2021 · 1m
It's Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
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- 57
May 12, 2021 · 1m
We're All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
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- 58
May 11, 2021 · 2m
It's Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
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- 59
May 7, 2021 · 1m
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
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- 60
May 5, 2021 · 2m
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out the Failures
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- 61
May 3, 2021 · 2m
Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions
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- 62
Apr 30, 2021 · 2m
Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism
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- 63
Apr 28, 2021 · 1m
Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
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- 64
Apr 26, 2021 · 1m
We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
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- 65
Apr 21, 2021 · 1m
The Multiverse
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- 66
Apr 19, 2021 · 3m
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
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- 67
Apr 16, 2021 · 2m
Probability Is Subjective
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- 68
Apr 14, 2021 · 1m
We Can't Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics
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- 69
Apr 12, 2021 · 1m
Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
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- 70
Apr 9, 2021 · 2m
Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?
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- 71
Apr 7, 2021 · 3m
All Knowledge Is Conjectural
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- 72
Apr 5, 2021 · 2m
The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
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- 73
Apr 2, 2021 · 2m
There Is No Settled Mathematics
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- 74
Mar 31, 2021 · 2m
There Is No End of Science
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- 75
Mar 26, 2021 · 2m
Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary
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- 76
Mar 24, 2021 · 2m
Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
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- 77
Mar 22, 2021 · 1m
Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
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- 78
Mar 19, 2021 · 2m
It's Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge
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Mar 17, 2021 · 2m
People Are a Force of Nature
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Mar 15, 2021 · 2m
We're at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge
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