Naval
Episodes
'Nothing Ever Happens' Is Over
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
00:14 The Fully Interconnected Startup 04:22 You Don't Need the Explicit Intranet Anymore 07:03 May You Live in Interesting Times 10:48 Drones Democra...
A Return to Code
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Return to Coding 00:20 The Personal App Store 03:14 Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:19 Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:30 A ...
A Motorcycle for the Mind
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Engineerin...
Curate People
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 I...
In the Arena
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Indi...
Find the Simplest Thing That Works
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
http://nav.al/simplest
Good Products Are Hard to Vary
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
http://nav.al/good-products
Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/devour
The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/density
It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/fool
Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/agency
Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect
Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval's Chief of Staff
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/hiring
You Have to Enjoy It a Lot
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy
Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/action
When You Truly Work for Yourself
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/yourself
In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect
If You Want to Learn, Do
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/do
Life is Lived in the Arena
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/arena
Inspiration all the way down
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/inspiration
The Deutsch Files IV
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34 Emergence Is Fundamental 3:18 Constructor Theory Could Transform Multiple Fields 8:30 Innovati...
The Deutsch Files III
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00 Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05 The superiority of explanatory knowledge ...
The Deutsch Files II
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The universality of computation and explanation 0:00 The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56 Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57 Evoluti...
The Deutsch Files I
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Popper's Impact 0:00 Creative Guesses 2:18 Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25 Taking Theories Seriously 10:25 New Paradigms 15:58 Foun...
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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:...
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 po...
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 trans...
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1
To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/caveman
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/infinite-resources
Groups Never Admit Failure
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/failure
Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/social
Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/feedback
The Poverty of Compromise
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/compromise
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/decentralization
Don't Rely on Credibility Stamps
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/credibility
One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/einstein
Ideas Are the New Oil
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/ideas
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/resources
Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/far-away
If You Can't Program It, You Don't Understand It
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/program
The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/existence
Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/intelligent
Where Are the Aliens?
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/aliens
It's Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can't Be Blown
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/mind-blowing
More Compute Power Doesn't Produce AGI
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/agi
We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/species
Humans Are Exceptional
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/exceptional
Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/evolution
There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/gravity
No Truth Can Be Justified
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/justified
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/theory
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/optimism
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/pessimism
It's Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/extrapolate
We're All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/ignorance
It's Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/theories
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/advances
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/failures
Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/predictions
Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/error
Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/broaden
We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/observed
The Multiverse
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/multiverse
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/light
Probability Is Subjective
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/probability
We Can't Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/prove
Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/substrate
Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript http://nav.al/discrete
All Knowledge Is Conjectural
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/conjectural
The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/methods
There Is No Settled Mathematics
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/settled
There Is No End of Science
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/end
Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/vary
Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/explanations Sponsor: http://www.eightsleep.com/infinity
Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/understand Sponsor: http://www.eightsleep.com/infinity
It's Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/predict Sponsor: http://www.eightsleep.com/infinity
People Are a Force of Nature
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/people Sponsor: http://www.eightsleep.com/infinity
We're at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/knowledge Sponsor: http://www.eightsleep.com/infinity
Happiness
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: https://nav.al/happiness
Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: https://nav.al/read
We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: https://nav.al/reach
Nullius in Verba
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: https://nav.al/nullius-2
This Book Changed the Way I Think
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/think
Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: https://nav.al/science-2
Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/matt-ridley-2
Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/matt-ridley
How to Angel Invest, Part 2
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Excerpted from the Spearhead podcast: http://spearhead.co
The Path to Peace Is Truth
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Discovering the truth can change you where self-improvement fails. Transcript: http://nav.al/truth
Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Even smart people go along with society's lies. Transcript: http://nav.al/consensus
The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wise people are quiet Transcript: http://nav.al/silent
Happiness Is Peace in Motion
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript: http://nav.al/peace-motion
Finding Peace from Mind
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The mind should be a servant, not a master. Transcript: http://nav.al/peace
Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Addiction holds together artificial relationships and fake activities. Transcript: http://nav.al/unacceptable
The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pursuing pleasure for its own sake creates addiction. Transcript: http://nav.al/addiction
Work the Least for It
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy people don't have to work as hard. Transcript: http://nav.al/least
Being Unhappy Is Very Inefficient
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you're a driven, unhappy person, your mind will be on 24/7. Transcript: http://nav.al/inefficient
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You can increase your happiness without losing your drive. Transcript: http://nav.al/smart