Naval
Naval on wealth creation. On Twitter at @naval.
Most-covered episodes
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Partner With Rational Optimists
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The Ultimate Foundations Are Math and Logic
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A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
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Being Ethical Is Long-term Greedy
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Accountability Means Letting People Hate on You
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Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
Episodes
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Happiness Is Peace in Motion
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Being Ethical Is Long-term Greedy
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A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
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Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
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Reject Most Advice
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Accountability Means Letting People Hate on You
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Partner With Rational Optimists
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Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical
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The Ultimate Foundations Are Math and Logic
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Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status
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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
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The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
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New Knowledge Creates New Resources
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Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
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Groups Never Admit Failure
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Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
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Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
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The Poverty of Compromise
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Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
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Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
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One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
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Ideas Are the New Oil
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Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
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Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
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If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It
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The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
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Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
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Where Are the Aliens?
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It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown
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More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI
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We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
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Humans Are Exceptional
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Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution
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There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
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No Truth Can Be Justified
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With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
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The Beginning of Infinity
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Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
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Pessimism Appears to Be the Intellectually Serious Position
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It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
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We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
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It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
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Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
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Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out the Failures
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Science Is About Explanations, Not Predictions
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Science Does Not Aim to Predict the Future From the Past
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Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
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We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
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The Multiverse
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Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
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Probability Is Subjective
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We Will Never Prove Most Theorems
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Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
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The Ancient Tension Between the Discrete and Continuous
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All Knowledge Is Conjectural
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The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
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There Is No Settled Mathematics
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There Is No End of Science
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Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary
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Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
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Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
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It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge
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People Are a Force of Nature
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We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge
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Happiness
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Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again
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We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe
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Nullius in Verba
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The Beginning of Infinity
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Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward
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Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2
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Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1
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How to Angel Invest, Part 2
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The Path to Peace Is Truth
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Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
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The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside
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Finding Peace from Mind
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Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable
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The Modern Struggle Is Weaponized Addiction
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Work the Least for It
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Being Unhappy Is Inefficient
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If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
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Desire Is a Contract You Make to Be Unhappy
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Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop
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Happiness Is Not Science or Math
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You Can Buy Your Way Out of Unhappiness
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If You Live Long Enough, You Become a Philosopher
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How to Get Rich: Every Episode + Extras
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How to Angel Invest
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Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products
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Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today
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Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid for
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Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More
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Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier
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Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games
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Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating
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Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin
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Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner
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Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive
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We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves
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How to Get Rich: Every Episode
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Productize Yourself
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There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes
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Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve
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Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
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Escape Competition Through Authenticity
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Keep Redefining What You Do
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Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee”
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Work as Hard as You Can
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Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate
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Judgment Is the Decisive Skill
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Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech
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Pick a Business Model With Leverage
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Product Leverage Is Egalitarian
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Product and Media Are New Leverage
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Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage
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Take Accountability to Earn Equity
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Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage
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There's No Actual Skill Called Business
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Read What You Love Until You Love to Read
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Learn to Sell, Learn to Build—You'll Be Unstoppable
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Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge
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Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
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Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
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The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
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Live Below Your Means for Freedom
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You Won't Get Rich Renting Your Time
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Make Luck Your Destiny
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Making Money Isn't About Luck
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Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans
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Ethical Wealth Creation Makes Abundance