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Curate People 10/30/2025

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 Takes a Small Group of People to Create Something Great 10:19 Find Undiscovered Talent Before Everyone Else 14:56 Great People Have Taste in Other People 19:04 Every Great Engineer Is Also an Artist 21:24 Early Teams Look Like Cults 25:34 You Can’t Make a Product that is Simple Enough 27:59 The Founder's Personality Is the Company 30:37 Good Teams Throw Away Far More Product Than They Keep 34:45 All New Information Starts as Misinformation 38:41 Geniuses Only 40:47 Practice Your Craft At the Edge of Your Capability 44:24 Curate People 49:14 — Transcript: http://nav.al/curate-people /episode/index/show/naval/id/38839920

In the Arena 10/07/2025

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 6:15 When You Truly Work for Yourself 7:30 Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 10:12 You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 12:06 Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did 14:45 Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency 16:23 It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature 21:03 The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time 25:17 Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured 28:18 Good Products Are Hard to Vary 32:01 Find the Simplest Thing That Works 35:27 — Transcript http://nav.al/in-the-arena /episode/index/show/naval/id/38492480

Find the Simplest Thing That Works 10/02/2025

Find the Simplest Thing That Works http://nav.al/simplest /episode/index/show/naval/id/38434245

Good Products Are Hard to Vary 09/29/2025

Good Products Are Hard to Vary http://nav.al/good-products /episode/index/show/naval/id/38400430

Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured 09/23/2025

Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured Transcript: http://nav.al/devour /episode/index/show/naval/id/38333010

The Best Authors Respect the Reader’s Time 09/22/2025

The Best Authors Respect the Reader’s Time Transcript: http://nav.al/density /episode/index/show/naval/id/38317625

It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature 09/21/2025

It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature Transcript: http://nav.al/fool /episode/index/show/naval/id/38294350

Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency 08/26/2025

Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency Transcript: http://nav.al/agency /episode/index/show/naval/id/37957770

Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did 08/07/2025

Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect /episode/index/show/naval/id/37714190

Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval’s Chief of Staff 08/03/2025

Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval’s Chief of Staff Transcript: http://nav.al/hiring /episode/index/show/naval/id/37650070

You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 07/31/2025

You Have to Enjoy It a Lot Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy /episode/index/show/naval/id/37629250

Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 07/30/2025

Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action Transcript: http://nav.al/action /episode/index/show/naval/id/37602915

When You Truly Work for Yourself 07/26/2025

When You Truly Work for Yourself Transcript: http://nav.al/yourself /episode/index/show/naval/id/37564015

In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 07/25/2025

In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect /episode/index/show/naval/id/37552420

If You Want to Learn, Do 07/22/2025

If You Want to Learn, Do Transcript: http://nav.al/do /episode/index/show/naval/id/37498675

Life is Lived in the Arena 07/18/2025

Life is Lived in the Arena Transcript: http://nav.al/arena /episode/index/show/naval/id/37452280

Inspiration all the way down 07/16/2025

Inspiration all the way down Transcript: /episode/index/show/naval/id/37423490

The Deutsch Files IV 10/11/2024

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 Emerges Unexpectedly 22:46 Knowledge Evolves Independently Across Universes 29:31 Anti-Rational Memes Hinder Human Progress 31:10 The West Versus the Rest 37:32 Error-correcting Institutions 47:46 The Bucket Theory of the Mind 51:59 Wokeism and the West 1:07:12 — Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-iv /episode/index/show/naval/id/33419817

The Deutsch Files III 02/17/2024

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 Knowledge laden information is more resilient than any physical object 12:36 The problems of cloning people 15:05 Objections to Taking Children Seriously 19:23 “Do what you like” is bad advice 38:17 Creativity versus nature 41:57 Deutsch’s “fanciful” conjectures 47:52 We must give up on the idea of an ultimate explanation 53:06 — Transcript /episode/index/show/naval/id/29995348

The Deutsch Files II 01/26/2024

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 not the survival of the fittest 14:50 Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46 Free will is intimately connected with knowledge-creation 33:41 Wealth is not a number, it is a set of transformations 49:03 The principle of optimism 53:27 Constructor Theory 57:21 How to make a better world 1:10:05 — Transcript /episode/index/show/naval/id/29659528

The Deutsch Files I 01/11/2024

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 Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41 David Deutsch’s Life Philosophy 32:06 The Clash of Civilizations 44:03 — Transcript Discuss on Airchat /episode/index/show/naval/id/29440628

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2 08/11/2023

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 of Science 23:30 The Enlightenment 25:39 Misinformation 29:45 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch-2 /episode/index/show/naval/id/27712257

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1 02/11/2023

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 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch /episode/index/show/naval/id/25568235

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2 04/14/2022

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 5:18 Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45 Vitalik’s influence on Eth today 8:59 It’s getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38 Goals outside Ethereum 12:17 Crypto needs the good-natured 15:00 Russia 18:06 Vitalik’s lifestyle 19:51 Closing thoughts 22:06 — Transcript http://nav.al/vitalik-2 /episode/index/show/naval/id/22686074

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1 04/08/2022

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 10:18 Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41 Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08 Doing away with ‘trusted’ third parties 14:09 Trading performance for security 14:43 ‘Impregnable castles made of math’ 16:23 Ethereum’s limitations are latency and privacy 16:56 There are ways to get back your privacy 19:32 Can Eth provide a high level of decentralization and a high level of scaling at the same time? 20:39 Sharding leads to more centralization 21:49 Verifiability at the expense of scaling 24:00 How much decentralization is the right amount? 25:11 What happens when subsidies to join nodes disappear? 27:07 Stateless clients make it possible to verify the chain with very little on your hard drive 28:18 Staking culture is difficult to cultivate 28:52 New blockchain players tend to go for minimum viable decentralization 29:54 People don’t value privacy until somebody goes to jail over it 30:32 Eth is ‘simple at the base’ 31:12 Social recovery wallets make it easier to be your own bank 31:44 Block space is getting expensive 32:41 There’s not a lot of innovation on Bitcoin, by design 33:35 Blockchain’s ‘free-rider effect’ 34:57 Innovation is slowest at Layer 1 35:34 Layer 2 moves faster because it’s permissionless 36:59 What if we froze Layer 1 today? 37:25 Data for computation trade-off 38:57 Benchmarking blockchains apples-to-apples 40:02 Enshrining decentralization 41:43 Tensions between scaling and preserving value 42:27 There will be multiple stores of value 43:54 — Transcript http://nav.al/vitalik /episode/index/show/naval/id/22686038

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2 12/22/2021

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2 My interview with Brett Hall about The Beginning of Infinity /episode/index/show/naval/id/21570812

To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources 12/13/2021

To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources There was a time when coal wasn’t a resource /episode/index/show/naval/id/20826365

Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite 12/10/2021

Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite We’re going to keep creating new knowledge and new resources /episode/index/show/naval/id/20826347

Groups Never Admit Failure 12/08/2021

Groups Never Admit Failure What happens is you get a schism instead /episode/index/show/naval/id/20826341

Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It 12/06/2021

Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It Science’s biggest breakthroughs came from unpopular people /episode/index/show/naval/id/21391376

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