Naval

By 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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Is the Universe Discrete or...

04.09.2021

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Naval episodes:

04.09.2021 Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous? Quantum theory and relativity disagree
04.07.2021 All Knowledge Is Conjectural Be skeptical of absolute certainty
04.05.2021 The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible The subject matter is not
04.02.2021 There Is No Settled Mathematics Proofs are not certainties
03.31.2021 There Is No End of Science We can keep on making progress
03.26.2021 Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary They should make risky and narrow predictions
03.24.2021 Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity They’re not derived from looking at the past
03.22.2021 Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things Knowledge is in the observer, not the observed
03.19.2021 It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge The laws of physics can’t predict the future
03.17.2021 People Are a Force of Nature A different vision of the place of people in the universe
03.15.2021 We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge Progress is inevitable as long as we have good explanations
03.12.2021 Happiness A collection of all my episodes on happiness
03.10.2021 Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again Many claim to read, but very few understand
03.08.2021 We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe We can understand anything that can be understood
03.05.2021 Nullius in Verba Take no one’s word for it
03.03.2021 The Beginning of Infinity The rare book that expanded my repertoire of reasoning
03.01.2021 Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward “Believe in science” is an oxymoron
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.

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Naval episodes:

Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?

All Knowledge Is Conjectural

The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible

There Is No Settled Mathematics

There Is No End of Science

Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary

Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity

Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things

It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge

People Are a Force of Nature

We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge

Happiness

Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again

We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe

Nullius in Verba

The Beginning of Infinity

Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward

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

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