Naval

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Naval on wealth, investing, startups, tech and life. Founder of AngelList, investor in Uber and hundreds more, author of Venture Hacks and Startupboy.

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Matt Ridley: How Innovation...

07.15.2020

Innovation is the parent of prosperity

Naval episodes:

07.15.2020 Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2 Innovation is the parent of prosperity
07.09.2020 Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1 Innovation is the child of freedom
06.12.2020 How to Angel Invest, Part 2 A preview of our other podcast
03.26.2020 The Path to Peace Is Truth Discovering the truth can change you where self-improvement fails
03.24.2020 Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth Even smart people go along with society’s lies
03.10.2020 The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside Wise people are quiet.
03.05.2020 Happiness Is Peace in Motion Peace is happiness at rest. Transcript: http://nav.al/peace-motion
03.03.2020 Finding Peace from Mind The mind should be a servant, not a master
02.26.2020 Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable Addiction holds together artificial relationships and fake activities
02.24.2020 The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction Pursuing pleasure for its own sake creates addiction
02.19.2020 Work the Least for It Happy people make better decisions
02.17.2020 Being Unhappy Is Very Inefficient A peaceful mind makes better decisions
02.12.2020 If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? You can increase your happiness without losing your drive
02.10.2020 Desire Is a Contract You Make to Be Unhappy Happiness is returning to a state where nothing is missing
02.03.2020 Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop You’re not stuck at your current level of happiness
01.28.2020 Happiness Is Not Science or Math Happiness is more like poetry than algorithms
01.28.2020 Happiness Without Material Comfort Is Playing on Hard Mode It's easier to fulfill your material desires than to renounce them
01.25.2020 Live Long Enough and You’ll Become a Philosopher This podcast is a practical philosophy of health, wealth and happiness
12.10.2019 How to Get Rich: Every Episode Every interview on “How to Get Rich”
11.17.2019 How to Angel Invest, Part 1 A preview of our other podcast
07.31.2019 Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products Externalities let you account for the true cost of products by including hidden costs like environmental damage.
07.29.2019 Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today What future income is worth today by applying a discount to its future value.
07.25.2019 Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid For A lot of people are willing to pay more than what companies charge.
07.23.2019 Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More Charge people for extras based on their propensity to pay.
07.19.2019 Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier Life gets a lot easier when you know someone’s got your back.
07.15.2019 Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games Improve your leverage in negotiations by turning short-term relationships into long-term ones.
07.12.2019 Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating People who can’t communicate can cooperate by anticipating the other person’s actions.
07.10.2019 Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin Don't ruin your reputation or get wiped to zero.
07.08.2019 Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner If you think and act like an owner, it’s only a matter of time until you become an owner.
06.28.2019 Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive Envy can give you a powerful boost, or it can eat you alive if you let it follow you.
06.26.2019 Being Ethical Is Long-Term Greedy If you cut fair deals, you will get paid in the long run.
06.24.2019 We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves The goal is that we are eventually wealthy and working for ourselves.
06.21.2019 Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You Misunderstanding accountability, and other mistakes on the path to creating wealth.
06.02.2019 How to Get Rich: Every Episode Every interview on “How to Get Rich”
05.24.2019 Productize Yourself Figure out what you're uniquely good at and apply as much leverage as possible.
05.23.2019 There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes Get rich quick schemes are just someone else getting rich off you.
05.21.2019 A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place.
05.20.2019 Reject Most Advice Most advice is people giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers.
05.19.2019 Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve Apply specific knowledge with leverage and eventually you will get what you deserve.
05.17.2019 Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes Competition will blind you to greater games. You're one step away from a better market.
05.16.2019 Escape Competition Through Authenticity Competition can make you play the wrong game. No one can compete with you on being you.
05.13.2019 Keep Redefining What You Do Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
05.08.2019 Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee” You should be too busy to “do coffee”, while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
05.06.2019 Work As Hard As You Can Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important.
05.01.2019 Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.
04.29.2019 Judgment Is the Decisive Skill Everything we've discussed so far has been setting you up to apply judgment.
04.26.2019 Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech The continuum from laborer to real estate tech company goes from low to high specific knowledge, accountability and leverage.
04.22.2019 Pick a Business Model With Leverage Ideally, you should pick a business model with network effects, low marginal costs and scale economies.
04.19.2019 Product Leverage Is Egalitarian Labor and capital are limited to the people who control those resources. But products reach global markets.
04.17.2019 Product and Media Are New Leverage Product and media are the leverage of new wealth. Create software and media that work for you while you sleep.

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Naval episodes:

Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2

Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1

How to Angel Invest, Part 2

The Path to Peace Is Truth

Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth

The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside

Happiness Is Peace in Motion

Finding Peace from Mind

Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable

The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction

Work the Least for It

Being Unhappy Is Very Inefficient

If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?

Desire Is a Contract You Make to Be Unhappy

Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop

Happiness Is Not Science or Math

Happiness Without Material Comfort Is Playing on Hard Mode

Live Long Enough and You’ll Become a Philosopher

How to Get Rich: Every Episode

How to Angel Invest, Part 1

Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products

Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today

Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid For

Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More

Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier

Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games

Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating

Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin

Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner

Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive

Being Ethical Is Long-Term Greedy

We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves

Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You

How to Get Rich: Every Episode

Productize Yourself

There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes

A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love

Reject Most Advice

Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

Escape Competition Through Authenticity

Keep Redefining What You Do

Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee”

Work As Hard As You Can

Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate

Judgment Is the Decisive Skill

Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech

Pick a Business Model With Leverage

Product Leverage Is Egalitarian

Product and Media Are New Leverage

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