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Live in the Future 2 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 8 min Naval with three founders who are living in the future: Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Daniel Francis (Abel Police), and Farbood Nivi (A-LIST). 00:00 Guest Intros 02:35 Live in the Fut…

Full Episode: The AI Industrial Revolution 1 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 10 min Full episode with 20 minutes of new material at the end. Software factories, vertical integration, the regulatory frontier, and the autonomous company. Part 1: Waste Tokens, Save…

Sell the Truth 11 May 2026 · 28 min 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 (Good) Obsessions 18:57 S…

'Nothing Ever Happens' Is Over 4 May 2026 · 20 min 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 Violence 12:43 Biothreat…

A Return to Code 28 Apr 2026 · 30 min 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 for Each Model 14:09 AI…

A Motorcycle for the Mind 18 Feb 2026 · 52 min 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? 10:13 There is no dem…

Curate People 30 Oct 2025 · 52 min 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…

In the Arena 7 Oct 2025 · 42 min 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…

Find the Simplest Thing That Works 2 Oct 2025 · 6 min http://nav.al/simplest

Good Products Are Hard to Vary 29 Sept 2025 · 3 min http://nav.al/good-products

Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured 23 Sept 2025 · 4 min Transcript: http://nav.al/devour

The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time 22 Sept 2025 · 3 min Transcript: http://nav.al/density

It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature 21 Sept 2025 · 4 min Transcript: http://nav.al/fool

Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency 26 Aug 2025 · 5 min Transcript: http://nav.al/agency

Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did 7 Aug 2025 · 2 min Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect

Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval's Chief of Staff 3 Aug 2025 · 3 min Transcript: http://nav.al/hiring

You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 31 Jul 2025 · 3 min Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy

Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 30 Jul 2025 · 2 min Transcript: http://nav.al/action

When You Truly Work for Yourself 26 Jul 2025 · 3 min Transcript: http://nav.al/yourself

In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 25 Jul 2025 · 1 min Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect

If You Want to Learn, Do 22 Jul 2025 · 1 min Transcript: http://nav.al/do

Life is Lived in the Arena 18 Jul 2025 · 2 min Transcript: http://nav.al/arena

Inspiration all the way down 16 Jul 2025 · 3 min Transcript: http://nav.al/inspiration

The Deutsch Files IV 11 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 25 min 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…

The Deutsch Files III 17 Feb 2024 · 59 min 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 informat…

The Deutsch Files II 26 Jan 2024 · 1 hr 14 min 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…

The Deutsch Files I 11 Jan 2024 · 55 min 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…

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2 11 Aug 2023 · 34 min 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…

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1 11 Feb 2023 · 44 min 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…

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2 14 Apr 2022 · 25 min 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 Twitte…