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- 01
Jun 1, 2026 · 1h 10m
Full Episode: The AI Industrial Revolution
Full episode with 20 minutes of new material at the end. Software factories, vertical integration, the regulatory frontier, and the autonomous company. Part...
- 02
May 29, 2026 · 20m
The Regulatory Frontier
Part 2 of our new format with three frontier founders: Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science). 00:00 Previously… 0...
- 03
May 28, 2026 · 13m
Vibe Coding Hardware
Part 2 of our new format with three frontier founders: Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Sonic), and Max Hodak (Science). 00:35 Vibe Coding A Turb...
- 04
May 27, 2026 · 14m
Waste Tokens, Save Time
A new format for the podcast! With three frontier founders: Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science). 01:27 AI Softw...
- 05
May 11, 2026 · 27m E157
Sell the Truth
00:00 Be Credible 03:18 "Yes, And" 04:31 Selfish Honesty 05:37 Charisma Is Confidence + Love 07:56 Don't Manage, Lead 11:16 Hunt Together 14:51 Feed Your (Go...
- 06
May 4, 2026 · 19m E157
'Nothing Ever Happens' Is Over
00:00 The Fully Interconnected Startup 04:14 You Don't Need the Explicit Intranet Anymore 06:55 May You Live in Interesting Times 10:40 Drones Democratize Vi...
- 07
Apr 28, 2026 · 29m E156
A Return to Code
A Return to Coding 00:15 The Personal App Store 03:08 Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:12 Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:23 A Place f...
- 08
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?...
- 09
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...
- 10
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:...
- 11
Oct 2, 2025 · 6m E152
Find the Simplest Thing That Works
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- 12
Sep 29, 2025 · 3m E151
Good Products Are Hard to Vary
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- 13
Sep 23, 2025 · 3m E150
Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured
Transcript: http://nav.al/devour
- 14
Sep 22, 2025 · 3m E149
The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time
Transcript: http://nav.al/density
- 15
Sep 21, 2025 · 4m E148
It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature
Transcript: http://nav.al/fool
- 16
Aug 29, 2025 · 1m E148
Get in The Ring
Transcript: http://nav.al/ring
- 17
Aug 26, 2025 · 4m E147
Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
Transcript: http://nav.al/agency
- 18
Aug 7, 2025 · 1m E146
Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did
Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect
- 19
Aug 3, 2025 · 2m E145
Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval's Chief of Staff
Transcript: http://nav.al/hiring
- 20
Jul 31, 2025 · 2m E144
You Have to Enjoy It a Lot
Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy
- 21
Jul 30, 2025 · 1m · S143
Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action
Transcript: http://nav.al/action
- 22
Jul 26, 2025 · 2m E142
When You Truly Work for Yourself
Transcript: http://nav.al/yourself
- 23
Jul 25, 2025 · 1m E141
In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect
- 24
Jul 22, 2025 · 1m E140
If You Want to Learn, Do
Transcript: http://nav.al/do
- 25
Jul 18, 2025 · 2m E139
Life is Lived in the Arena
Transcript: http://nav.al/arena
- 26
Jul 16, 2025 · 2m E138
Inspiration all the way down
Transcript: http://nav.al/inspiration
- 27
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...
- 28
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...
- 29
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...
- 30
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...
- 31
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...
- 32
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...
- 33
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...
- 34
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...
- 35
Dec 22, 2021 · 52m
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1
- 36
Dec 13, 2021 · 2m
To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
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- 37
Dec 10, 2021 · 2m
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
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- 38
Dec 8, 2021 · 2m
Groups Never Admit Failure
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- 39
Dec 6, 2021 · 2m
Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
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- 40
Dec 3, 2021 · 2m
Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
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- 41
Nov 29, 2021 · 2m
The Poverty of Compromise
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- 42
Nov 24, 2021 · 2m
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
Transcript: http://nav.al/decentralization
- 43
Nov 22, 2021 · 1m
Don't Rely on Credibility Stamps
Transcript http://nav.al/credibility
- 44
Nov 19, 2021 · 1m
One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
Transcript http://nav.al/einstein
- 45
Nov 17, 2021 · 3m
Ideas Are the New Oil
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- 46
Nov 15, 2021 · 2m
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
Transcript http://nav.al/resources
- 47
Nov 12, 2021 · 2m
Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
Transcript http://nav.al/far-away
- 48
Nov 10, 2021 · 43s
If You Can't Program It, You Don't Understand It
Transcript: http://nav.al/program
- 49
Nov 8, 2021 · 1m
The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
Transcript http://nav.al/existence
- 50
Nov 3, 2021 · 3m
Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
Transcript http://nav.al/intelligent
- 51
Nov 1, 2021 · 1m
Where Are the Aliens?
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- 52
Oct 30, 2021 · 2m
It's Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can't Be Blown
Transcript: http://nav.al/mind-blowing
- 53
Oct 27, 2021 · 1m
More Compute Power Doesn't Produce AGI
Transcript: http://nav.al/agi
- 54
Oct 25, 2021 · 1m
We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
Transcript http://nav.al/species
- 55
Oct 22, 2021 · 2m
Humans Are Exceptional
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- 56
Oct 20, 2021 · 2m
Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
Transcript http://nav.al/evolution
- 57
Oct 18, 2021 · 3m
There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
Transcript http://nav.al/gravity
- 58
Oct 15, 2021 · 2m
No Truth Can Be Justified
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- 59
Oct 8, 2021 · 1m
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
Transcript http://nav.al/theory
- 60
Jul 2, 2021 · 1h 6m
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity
- 61
May 24, 2021 · 2m
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
Transcript http://nav.al/optimism
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May 17, 2021 · 1m
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
Transcript http://nav.al/pessimism
- 63
May 14, 2021 · 1m
It's Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
Transcript http://nav.al/extrapolate
- 64
May 12, 2021 · 1m
We're All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
Transcript http://nav.al/ignorance
- 65
May 11, 2021 · 2m
It's Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
Transcript http://nav.al/theories
- 66
May 7, 2021 · 1m
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
Transcript http://nav.al/advances
- 67
May 5, 2021 · 2m
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out the Failures
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- 68
May 3, 2021 · 2m
Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions
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- 69
Apr 30, 2021 · 2m
Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism
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Apr 28, 2021 · 1m
Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
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Apr 26, 2021 · 1m
We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
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- 72
Apr 21, 2021 · 1m
The Multiverse
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- 73
Apr 19, 2021 · 3m
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
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- 74
Apr 16, 2021 · 2m
Probability Is Subjective
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- 75
Apr 14, 2021 · 1m
We Can't Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics
Transcript http://nav.al/prove
- 76
Apr 12, 2021 · 1m
Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
Transcript http://nav.al/substrate
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Apr 9, 2021 · 2m
Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?
Transcript http://nav.al/discrete
- 78
Apr 7, 2021 · 3m
All Knowledge Is Conjectural
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- 79
Apr 5, 2021 · 2m
The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
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Apr 2, 2021 · 2m
There Is No Settled Mathematics
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