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Live in the Future
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2 Jul 2026
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 Future 03:58 Will
Full Episode: The AI Industrial Revolution
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1 Jun 2026
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 Time
Sell the Truth
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11 May 2026
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 Sell the Truth
'Nothing Ever Happens' Is Over
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4 May 2026
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 Biothreats Could Also Get
A Return to Code
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28 Apr 2026
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 Is Eager to
A Motorcycle for the Mind
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18 Feb 2026
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 demand for average
Curate People
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30 Oct 2025
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
In the Arena
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7 Oct 2025
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
Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured
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23 Sep 2025
Transcript: http://nav.al/devour
Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
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26 Aug 2025
Transcript: http://nav.al/agency
Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval's Chief of Staff
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3 Aug 2025
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In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
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25 Jul 2025
Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect
The Deutsch Files IV
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11 Oct 2024
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
The Deutsch Files III
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17 Feb 2024
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
The Deutsch Files II
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26 Jan 2024
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
The Deutsch Files I
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11 Jan 2024
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
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
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11 Aug 2023
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
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
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11 Feb 2023
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
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
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14 Apr 2022
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: Ethereum, Part 1
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8 Apr 2022
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
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
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10 Dec 2021
Transcript http://nav.al/infinite-resources
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
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24 Nov 2021
Transcript: http://nav.al/decentralization
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
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15 Nov 2021
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If You Can't Program It, You Don't Understand It
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10 Nov 2021
Transcript: http://nav.al/program
The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
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8 Nov 2021
Transcript http://nav.al/existence
Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
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3 Nov 2021
Transcript http://nav.al/intelligent