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Naval 162 Episodes Jul 2, 2026

Naval is a podcast hosted by Naval Ravikant, featuring discussions on topics such as startups, investing, and philosophy. The show often includes interviews with entrepreneurs and thinkers. It is known for its insightful and thought-provoking content.

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Live in the Future Jul 2, 2026 01:07:53 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 AI Outsmart us? 07:43 In the Anthropic Breadline 09:59 The Tech Genie Is Out 12:33 We Invested in COVID?! 14:25 Good Writing Is Novelty 18:50 Living Like It's 2028 24:32 Truth dot ai 30:18 Does China have

Full Episode: The AI Industrial Revolution Jun 1, 2026 01:10:02 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 00:00 Three Frontier Founders 01:27 AI Software Factories 04:15 Waste Tokens, Save Time 05:47 Models Instructing Humans 09:29 Is Pure Software Dead? 12:03 You Don't Get Stuck Anymore Part 2: Vibe Coding Hardwar

Sell the Truth May 11, 2026 27:40 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 21:07 Good Deal or No Deal 23:39 The Age of Nonlinear Returns — Transcript: http://nav.al/sell USVC is a product of AngelList, where we are founders and hold equity.

'Nothing Ever Happens' Is Over May 4, 2026 19:42 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 Democratized 15:09 AI Interfaces Unlock Hardware 17:35 Optimism Requires Creativity -- Transcript: http://nav.al/over USVC is a product of AngelList, where we are founders and hold equity.

A Return to Code Apr 28, 2026 29:36 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 Please 17:44 Why Math and Coding? 21:58 The Beginning of the End of Apple's Dominance 24:04 Coding Agents As Customer Service Reps 27:43 -- Transcript: http://nav.al/code Presented by AngelList: http://ange

A Motorcycle for the Mind Feb 18, 2026 52:06 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 13:07 The hottest new programming language is English 14:12 AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it 18:36 No entrepreneur is worried about AI taking their job 22:56 The goal is not to have a

Curate People Oct 30, 2025 52:04 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 Something Great 10:19 Find Undiscovered Talent Before Everyone Else 14:56 Great People Have Taste in Other People 19:04 Every Great Engineer Is Also an Artist 21:24 Early Teams Look Like Cults 25:34 You

In the Arena Oct 7, 2025 41:45 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 7:30 Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 10:12 You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 12:06 Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did 14:45 Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency 16:23 It Is Impossibl

Find the Simplest Thing That Works Oct 2, 2025 06:18 http://nav.al/simplest

Good Products Are Hard to Vary Sep 29, 2025 03:27 http://nav.al/good-products

Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured Sep 23, 2025 03:43 Transcript: http://nav.al/devour

The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time Sep 22, 2025 03:03 Transcript: http://nav.al/density

It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature Sep 21, 2025 04:15 Transcript: http://nav.al/fool

Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency Aug 26, 2025 04:40 Transcript: http://nav.al/agency

Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did Aug 7, 2025 01:39 Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect

Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval's Chief of Staff Aug 3, 2025 02:35 Transcript: http://nav.al/hiring

You Have to Enjoy It a Lot Jul 31, 2025 02:48 Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy

Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action Jul 30, 2025 01:55 Transcript: http://nav.al/action

When You Truly Work for Yourself Jul 26, 2025 02:44 Transcript: http://nav.al/yourself

In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect Jul 25, 2025 01:16 Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect

If You Want to Learn, Do Jul 22, 2025 01:25 Transcript: http://nav.al/do

Life is Lived in the Arena Jul 18, 2025 02:09 Transcript: http://nav.al/arena

Inspiration all the way down Jul 16, 2025 02:57 Transcript: http://nav.al/inspiration

The Deutsch Files IV Oct 11, 2024 01:25:06 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 Evolves Independently Across Universes 29:31 Anti-Rational Memes Hinder Human Progress 31:10 The West Versus the Rest 37:32 Error-correcting Institutions 47:46 The Bucket Theory of the Mind 51:59 Wokeism

The Deutsch Files III Feb 17, 2024 59:18 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 resilient than any physical object 12:36 The problems of cloning people 15:05 Objections to Taking Children Seriously 19:23 "Do what you like" is bad advice 38:17 Creativity versus nature 41:57 Deutsch's "fanc

The Deutsch Files II Jan 26, 2024 01:14:28 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 Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46 Free will is intimately connected with knowledge-creation 33:41 Wealth is not a number, it is a set of transformations 49:03 The principle of optimism 53:27 Constructo

The Deutsch Files I Jan 11, 2024 54:53 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 Deutsch's Life Philosophy 32:06 The Clash of Civilizations 44:03 — Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-i Discuss on Airchat http://getairchat.com/arjun/deutschfilesdiscussion

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2 Aug 11, 2023 34:01 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 25:39 Misinformation 29:45 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch-2

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1 Feb 11, 2023 43:50 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/david-deutsch

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2 Apr 14, 2022 25:00 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's influence on Eth today 8:59 It's getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38 Goals outside Ethereum 12:17 Crypto needs the good-natured 15:00 Russia 18:06 Vitalik's lifestyle 19:51 Closing thoug

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1 Apr 8, 2022 46:07 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 and efficient 12:41 Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08 Doing away with 'trusted' third parties 14:09 Trading performance for security 14:43 'Impregnable castles made of math' 16:2

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2 Dec 22, 2021 52:52 Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1

To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources Dec 13, 2021 02:56 Transcript http://nav.al/caveman

Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite Dec 10, 2021 02:31 Transcript http://nav.al/infinite-resources

Groups Never Admit Failure Dec 8, 2021 02:08 Transcript: http://nav.al/failure

Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It Dec 6, 2021 02:28 Transcript http://nav.al/social

Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback Dec 3, 2021 02:31 Transcript http://nav.al/feedback

The Poverty of Compromise Nov 29, 2021 02:58 Transcript http://nav.al/compromise

Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier Nov 24, 2021 02:53 Transcript: http://nav.al/decentralization

Don't Rely on Credibility Stamps Nov 22, 2021 01:44 Transcript http://nav.al/credibility

One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones Nov 19, 2021 01:22 Transcript http://nav.al/einstein

Ideas Are the New Oil Nov 17, 2021 03:03 Transcript http://nav.al/ideas

Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources Nov 15, 2021 02:21 Transcript http://nav.al/resources

Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away Nov 12, 2021 02:14 Transcript http://nav.al/far-away

If You Can't Program It, You Don't Understand It Nov 10, 2021 43 Transcript: http://nav.al/program

The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small Nov 8, 2021 01:24 Transcript http://nav.al/existence

Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth Nov 3, 2021 03:08 Transcript http://nav.al/intelligent

Where Are the Aliens? Nov 1, 2021 01:05 Transcript http://nav.al/aliens

It's Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can't Be Blown Oct 30, 2021 02:34 Transcript: http://nav.al/mind-blowing

More Compute Power Doesn't Produce AGI Oct 27, 2021 01:38 Transcript: http://nav.al/agi

We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species Oct 25, 2021 01:33 Transcript http://nav.al/species

Humans Are Exceptional Oct 22, 2021 02:18 Transcript http://nav.al/exceptional

Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution Oct 20, 2021 02:25 Transcript http://nav.al/evolution

There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity Oct 18, 2021 03:14 Transcript http://nav.al/gravity

No Truth Can Be Justified Oct 15, 2021 02:15 Transcript http://nav.al/justified

With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True Oct 8, 2021 01:36 Transcript http://nav.al/theory

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1 Jul 2, 2021 01:06:10 Transcript http://nav.al/infinity

Rational Optimism Is the Way Out May 24, 2021 02:02 Transcript http://nav.al/optimism

Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position May 17, 2021 01:58 Transcript http://nav.al/pessimism

It's Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse May 14, 2021 01:36 Transcript http://nav.al/extrapolate

We're All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance May 12, 2021 01:26 Transcript http://nav.al/ignorance

It's Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories May 11, 2021 02:59 Transcript http://nav.al/theories

Science Advances One Funeral at a Time May 7, 2021 01:18 Transcript http://nav.al/advances

Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures May 5, 2021 02:12 Transcript http://nav.al/failures

Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions May 3, 2021 02:32 Transcript http://nav.al/predictions

Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism Apr 30, 2021 02:04 Transcript http://nav.al/error

Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality Apr 28, 2021 01:32 Transcript http://nav.al/broaden

We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen Apr 26, 2021 01:27 Transcript http://nav.al/observed

The Multiverse Apr 21, 2021 01:42 Transcript http://nav.al/multiverse

Is Light a Particle or a Wave? Apr 19, 2021 03:19 Transcript http://nav.al/light

Probability Is Subjective Apr 16, 2021 02:06 Transcript http://nav.al/probability

We Can't Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics Apr 14, 2021 01:36 Transcript http://nav.al/prove

Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate Apr 12, 2021 01:44 Transcript http://nav.al/substrate

Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous? Apr 9, 2021 02:08 Transcript http://nav.al/discrete

All Knowledge Is Conjectural Apr 7, 2021 03:17 Transcript: http://nav.al/conjectural

The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible Apr 5, 2021 02:44 Transcript: http://nav.al/methods

There Is No Settled Mathematics Apr 2, 2021 02:55 Transcript: http://nav.al/settled

There Is No End of Science Mar 31, 2021 02:07 Transcript: http://nav.al/end

Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary Mar 26, 2021 02:26 Transcript: http://nav.al/vary

Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity Mar 24, 2021 02:02 Transcript: http://nav.al/explanations Sponsor: http://www.eightsleep.com/infinity

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