A Motorcycle for the Mind
18 Feb 2026
0:00 It's In the Doing That You Learn 2:10 Vibe Coding Is the New Product Management 6:47 Training Models Is the New Coding 10:10 There Is No Demand for Average 14:09 The Hottest New Programming
Collection: Curate People
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
Collection: In the Arena
7 Oct 2025
http://nav.al/in-the-arena
Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier
19 Jul 2019
Life gets a lot easier when you know someone’s got your back. • Compounding relationships make life easier 0:00 • It’s better to have a few compounding relationships than many shallow ones
Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games
15 Jul 2019
Improve your leverage in negotiations by turning short-term relationships into long-term ones. • Pareto optimal solutions require a trade-off to improve any criterion 0:00 • Negotiations are
Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating
12 Jul 2019
People who can’t communicate can cooperate by anticipating the other person’s actions. • Use social norms to cooperate when you can’t communicate 0:00 • You can find Schelling points in
Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin
10 Jul 2019
Don't ruin your reputation or get wiped to zero. • Don't bet everything on one big gamble 0:00 • Ruining your reputation is the same as getting wiped to zero 0:54 Transcript:
Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner
8 Jul 2019
If you think and act like an owner, it’s only a matter of time until you become an owner. • A principal is an owner; an agent is an employee 0:00 • A principal’s incentives are different
Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive
28 Jun 2019
Envy can give you a powerful boost, or it can eat you alive if you let it follow you. • Suffering through the wrong thing can motivate you to find the right thing 0:00 • Being a lawyer was not
Being Ethical Is Long-Term Greedy
26 Jun 2019
If you cut fair deals, you will get paid in the long run. • Ethics isn’t something you study; it’s something you do 0:00 • Trust leads to compounding relationships 0:51 • Being ethical
We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves
24 Jun 2019
The goal is that we are eventually wealthy and working for ourselves. • This advice is for anybody who wants to be entrepreneurial 0:00 • Middle age can be the most fruitful time to apply
Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You
21 Jun 2019
Misunderstanding accountability, and other mistakes on the path to creating wealth. • Accountability means letting people criticize you 0:00 • The most interesting parts should be the ones
How to Get Rich: Every Episode
2 Jun 2019
This giant episode collects every interview I’ve done on “How to Get Rich.” It includes 10 minutes of unreleased material—at the end—on “Finding Time to Invest in Yourself.”
Productize Yourself
24 May 2019
Figure out what you're uniquely good at and apply as much leverage as possible. • Figure out what you're uniquely good at and apply as much leverage as possible 0:00 • Find hobbies that make
There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes
23 May 2019
Get rich quick schemes are just someone else getting rich off you. • There are no get rich quick schemes 0:00 • We don't have ads because it would ruin our credibility 0:56 • Every founder
A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
21 May 2019
When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. • When you're wealthy, you'll realize it wasn't what you were seeking 0:00 • A calm mind, a fit
Reject Most Advice
20 May 2019
Most advice is people giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers. • The best founders listen to everyone but make up their own mind 0:00 • Advice is maxims you can recall later, when you
Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve
19 May 2019
Apply specific knowledge with leverage and eventually you will get what you deserve. • On a long enough time scale you will get paid 0:00 • What are you really good at that the market values?
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
17 May 2019
Competition will blind you to greater games. You're one step away from a better market. • Businesses that seem like they're in direct competition really aren't 0:00 • My first company got
Escape Competition Through Authenticity
16 May 2019
Competition can make you play the wrong game. No one can compete with you on being you. • Competition will trap you in a lesser game 0:00 • No one can compete with you on being you 1:27 • In
Keep Redefining What You Do
13 May 2019
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true. • Keep redefining what you do until you're the best at what you do 0:00 • Find
Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee”
8 May 2019
You should be too busy to “do coffee”, while still keeping an uncluttered calendar. • Be too busy to “do coffee” while keeping an uncluttered calendar 0:00 • People will meet with you
Work As Hard As You Can
6 May 2019
Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important. • Work as hard as you can 0:00 • But what you work on and who you work with are more important
Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate
1 May 2019
If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it. • Set and enforce an aspirational hourly rate 0:00 • You can't penny pinch your way to wealth 1:27 • My aspirational
Judgment Is the Decisive Skill
29 Apr 2019
Everything we've discussed so far has been setting you up to apply judgment. • In an age of infinite leverage, judgment becomes the most important skill 0:00 • Everything else you do is setting
Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech
26 Apr 2019
The continuum from laborer to real estate tech company goes from low accountability to high specific knowledge, accountability and leverage. • Laborers get paid hourly and have low accountability
Pick a Business Model With Leverage
22 Apr 2019
Ideally, you should pick a business model with network effects, low marginal costs and scale economies. • Scale economies: the more you produce, the cheaper it gets 0:00 • Zero marginal cost
Product Leverage Is Egalitarian
19 Apr 2019
Labor and capital are limited to the people who control those resources. But products reach global markets. • Product leverage is a positive-sum game 0:00 • Status goods are limited to a few
Product and Media Are New Leverage
17 Apr 2019
Product and media are the leverage of new wealth. Create software and media that work for you while you sleep. • Product and media are the new leverage 0:00 • Product leverage is where the new
Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage
15 Apr 2019
Wealth requires leverage. Labor and capital are older forms of leverage that everyone is fighting over. • Our brains aren't evolved to comprehend new forms of leverage 0:00 • Society overvalues
Take Accountability to Earn Equity
13 Apr 2019
If you have high accountability, you're less replaceable and you can get a piece of the business. • Accountability is how you're going to get equity 0:00 • Taking accountability is like taking
Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage
11 Apr 2019
Embrace accountability. Society will reward you with leverage. • You have to have accountability to get leverage 0:00 • Take business risks under your own name 0:54 • A well-functioning team
There's No Actual Skill Called Business
8 Apr 2019
There's no actual skill called business. Avoid business schools and magazines. • There's no actual skill called business 0:00 • Doing is faster than watching 0:55 • The number of “doing”
The Foundations Are Math and Logic
5 Apr 2019
If you understand mathematics and logic, you have the basis for understanding everything else. • The ultimate foundations are math and logic: 0:00 • It’s better to read a great book slowly
Read What You Love Until You Love to Read
3 Apr 2019
You should be able to pick up any book in the library and read it. • Read what you love until you love to read: 0:00 • Read the original scientific books in a field: 1:44 • Don't fear any
Learn to Sell, Learn to Build
31 Mar 2019
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable. • Learn to sell, learn to build 0:00 • The Silicon Valley model is a builder and seller 1:07 • If you can do
Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical
28 Mar 2019
Specific knowledge tends to be creative or technical. It's on the bleeding edge of technology, art and communication. • Specific knowledge can be taught through apprenticeships 0:00 • Specific
Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge
25 Mar 2019
Arm yourself with specific knowledge. It can't be trained but it can be found by pursuing your genuine curiosity. • Arm yourself with specific knowledge 0:00 • Specific knowledge can't be
Partner With Rational Optimists
22 Mar 2019
Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling. • Don't partner with pessimists 0:00 • Partner with rational optimists 1:20 • We're descended from pessimists
Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
22 Mar 2019
Picking partners with high intelligence, energy and integrity is the three-part checklist that you can't compromise on. • Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy and integrity 0:00
Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
19 Mar 2019
Pick an industry where you can play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life come from compound interest over many turns of the game. • Play long-term games with long-term people
The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
19 Mar 2019
The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers, by allowing you to scale any niche obsession. • The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers 0:00 •
Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
14 Mar 2019
Society will pay you for creating what it wants, but doesn’t know how to get, and delivering it at scale. • Give society what it wants, but doesn't know how to get—at scale 0:00 • Figure
Live Below Your Means for Freedom
11 Mar 2019
People living far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles just can't fathom. • People living below their means have freedom 0:00 • The most dangerous
You Won't Get Rich Renting Out Your Time
8 Mar 2019
You won't get rich renting out your time, because you can't earn non-linearly. • You won't get rich renting out your time 0:00 • Renting out your time means you're essentially replaceable
Make Luck Your Destiny
7 Mar 2019
Build your character in a way so luck becomes deterministic. • Build your character so luck becomes your destiny 0:00 • Build your character so opportunity finds you 1:12 • You have to
Making Money Isn't About Luck
6 Mar 2019
Making money isn't about luck. It's about becoming the kind of person who makes money. • Making money isn't about luck 0:00 • Blind luck 0:46 • Luck from hustling 0:55 • Luck from
Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans
6 Mar 2019
We're the only animals who cooperate across genetic boundaries, because we can track credits and debits in voluntary exchanges. • Free markets are intrinsic to the human species 0:00 • Too
Make Abundance for the World
5 Mar 2019
Wealth isn't about taking something from somebody else—it's about creating abundance for the world. • Ethical wealth creation makes abundance for the world 0:00 • Everyone can be wealthy
Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status
5 Mar 2019
The difference between wealth, money and status. • Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep 0:56 • Money is how we transfer wealth 2:28 • Status is your rank in the social