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Live in the Future
3 juli 2026 · 1 uur 8 min
Naval with three founders who are living in the future: Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Daniel Francis (Abel Police), and Farbood Nivi (A-LIST). Lees meer
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 the Weights?
35:38 Everyone has AI Anxiety
39:32 Have Your Agent Talk to My Agent
42:01 What if Open Source takes the Lead?
44:03 The Sun is Setting on Google
48:00 Ride the AGI
50:46 Will There be Startups?
54:05 Defending Taiwan
1:00:05 The California Empire
1:01:26 If the U.S. Falls
1:03:11 Universal Basic Robot
1:06:01 Humans as AI Handlers
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Full Episode: The AI Industrial Revolution
1 juni 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
Full episode with 20 minutes of new material at the end. Lees meer
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 Hardware
14:39 Vibe Coding a Turbine Blade
18:07 Open Source Compounds China's Advantage
20:15 You Always Want the Smartest Model
22:44 Software Still Needs Hands
24:43 Humans Are Becoming Verifiers
Part 3: The Regulatory Frontier
27:53 The Regulatory Red Queen Race
32:32 Why There's No Innovation in Healthcare
36:49 We Need a True 50-State Experiment
40:31 China's FDA Is Beating Ours
43:37 Healthcare Is a Communist Society Inside Capitalism
45:57 Sid's Story: N-of-1 Medicine
Part 4: The Autonomous Company
47:49 Autonomous Infrastructure
51:25 Your Job Is to Train the Agent
54:54 The Next Lord of the Rings
59:08 What's Your Definition of Art?
1:05:00 Can AI Have New Ideas?
1:07:03 A Very Large Number of Small Teams
With Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science).
Transcript: http://nav.al/industrial
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Sell the Truth
11 mei 2026 · 28 min
00:00 Be Credible Lees meer
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
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Transcript: http://nav.al/sell
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'Nothing Ever Happens' Is Over
5 mei 2026 · 20 min
00:00 The Fully Interconnected Startup Lees meer
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
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Transcript: http://nav.al/over
USVC is a product of AngelList, where we are founders and hold equity.
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A Return to Code
28 april 2026 · 30 min
A Return to Coding 00:15 Lees meer
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
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Transcript: http://nav.al/code
Presented by AngelList: http://angellist.com/podcast
We founded AngelList and have equity in the company.
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A Motorcycle for the Mind
18 februari 2026 · 52 min
If you want to learn, do 0:00 Lees meer
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 job 26:46
AIs are not alive 29:49
AI fails the only true test of intelligence 32:55
Early adopters of AI have an enormous edge 36:49
AI meets you exactly where you are 39:37
Always leverage the best intelligence 43:02
If you can't define it, you can't program it 44:37
The solution to AI anxiety is action 49:37
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Transcript: http://nav.al/ai
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Curate People
30 oktober 2025 · 52 min
The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 0:00 Lees meer
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 Can't Make a Product that is Simple Enough 27:59
The Founder's Personality Is the Company 30:37
Good Teams Throw Away Far More Product Than They Keep 34:45
All New Information Starts as Misinformation 38:41
Geniuses Only 40:47
Practice Your Craft At the Edge of Your Capability 44:24
Curate People 49:14
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Transcript: http://nav.al/curate-people
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In the Arena
7 oktober 2025 · 42 min
Inspiration All the Way Down 0:00 Lees meer
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 Impossible to Fool Mother Nature 21:03
The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time 25:17
Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured 28:18
Good Products Are Hard to Vary 32:01
Find the Simplest Thing That Works 35:27
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Transcript http://nav.al/in-the-arena
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Find the Simplest Thing That Works
2 oktober 2025 · 6 min
http://nav.al/simplest
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Good Products Are Hard to Vary
29 september 2025 · 3 min
http://nav.al/good-products
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Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured
24 september 2025 · 4 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/devour
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The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time
22 september 2025 · 3 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/density
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It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature
21 september 2025 · 4 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/fool
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Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
26 augustus 2025 · 5 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/agency
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Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did
7 augustus 2025 · 2 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect
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Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval's Chief of Staff
3 augustus 2025 · 3 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/hiring
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You Have to Enjoy It a Lot
1 augustus 2025 · 3 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy
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Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action
30 juli 2025 · 2 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/action
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When You Truly Work for Yourself
27 juli 2025 · 3 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/yourself
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In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
26 juli 2025 · 1 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect
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If You Want to Learn, Do
22 juli 2025 · 1 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/do
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Life is Lived in the Arena
18 juli 2025 · 2 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/arena
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Inspiration all the way down
16 juli 2025 · 3 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/inspiration
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The Deutsch Files IV
11 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 25 min
Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34 Lees meer
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 and the West 1:07:12
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Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-iv
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The Deutsch Files III
17 februari 2024 · 59 min
Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00 Lees meer
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 "fanciful" conjectures 47:52
We must give up on the idea of an ultimate explanation 53:06
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Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-iii
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The Deutsch Files II
26 januari 2024 · 1 uur 14 min
The universality of computation and explanation 0:00 Lees meer
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
Constructor Theory 57:21
How to make a better world 1:10:05
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Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-ii
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The Deutsch Files I
11 januari 2024 · 55 min
Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08 Lees meer
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
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Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-i
Discuss on Airchat http://getairchat.com/arjun/deutschfilesdiscussion
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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
12 augustus 2023 · 34 min
Popper's Impact 0:00 Lees meer
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
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Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch-2
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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
11 februari 2023 · 44 min
Introduction 0:00 Lees meer
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
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Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch
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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
14 april 2022 · 25 min
The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00 Lees meer
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 thoughts 22:06
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Transcript http://nav.al/vitalik-2
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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
8 april 2022 · 46 min
Introduction 0:00 Lees meer
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' 16:23
Ethereum's limitations are latency and privacy 16:56
There are ways to get back your privacy 19:32
Can Eth provide a high level of decentralization and a high level of scaling at the same time? 20:39
Sharding leads to more centralization 21:49
Verifiability at the expense of scaling 24:00
How much decentralization is the right amount? 25:11
What happens when subsidies to join nodes disappear? 27:07
Stateless clients make it possible to verify the chain with very little on your hard drive 28:18
Staking culture is difficult to cultivate 28:52
New blockchain players tend to go for minimum viable decentralization 29:54
People don't value privacy until somebody goes to jail over it 30:32
Eth is 'simple at the base' 31:12
Social recovery wallets make it easier to be your own bank 31:44
Block space is getting expensive 32:41
There's not a lot of innovation on Bitcoin, by design 33:35
Blockchain's 'free-rider effect' 34:57
Innovation is slowest at Layer 1 35:34
Layer 2 moves faster because it's permissionless 36:59
What if we froze Layer 1 today? 37:25
Data for computation trade-off 38:57
Benchmarking blockchains apples-to-apples 40:02
Enshrining decentralization 41:43
Tensions between scaling and preserving value 42:27
There will be multiple stores of value 43:54
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Transcript http://nav.al/vitalik
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The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
22 december 2021 · 53 min
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1
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To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
13 december 2021 · 3 min
Transcript http://nav.al/caveman
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Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
10 december 2021 · 3 min
Transcript http://nav.al/infinite-resources
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Groups Never Admit Failure
8 december 2021 · 2 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/failure
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Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
6 december 2021 · 2 min
Transcript http://nav.al/social
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Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
3 december 2021 · 3 min
Transcript http://nav.al/feedback
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The Poverty of Compromise
29 november 2021 · 3 min
Transcript http://nav.al/compromise
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Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
24 november 2021 · 3 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/decentralization
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Don't Rely on Credibility Stamps
22 november 2021 · 2 min
Transcript http://nav.al/credibility
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One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
19 november 2021 · 1 min
Transcript http://nav.al/einstein
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Ideas Are the New Oil
17 november 2021 · 3 min
Transcript http://nav.al/ideas
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Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
15 november 2021 · 2 min
Transcript http://nav.al/resources
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Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
12 november 2021 · 2 min
Transcript http://nav.al/far-away
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If You Can't Program It, You Don't Understand It
10 november 2021 · 1 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/program
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The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
8 november 2021 · 1 min
Transcript http://nav.al/existence
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Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
3 november 2021 · 3 min
Transcript http://nav.al/intelligent
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Where Are the Aliens?
1 november 2021 · 1 min
Transcript http://nav.al/aliens
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It's Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can't Be Blown
30 oktober 2021 · 3 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/mind-blowing
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More Compute Power Doesn't Produce AGI
27 oktober 2021 · 2 min
Transcript: http://nav.al/agi