If You Want to Learn, Do

Life is lived in the arena

Inspiration all the way down

The Deutsch Files IV

The Deutsch Files III

The Deutsch Files II

The Deutsch Files I

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2

To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources

Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite

Groups Never Admit Failure

Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It

Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback

The Poverty of Compromise

Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier

Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps

One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones

Ideas Are the New Oil

Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources

Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away

If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It

The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small

Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth

Where Are the Aliens?

It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown

More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI

We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species

Humans Are Exceptional

Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution

There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity

No Truth Can Be Justified

With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1

Rational Optimism Is the Way Out

Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position

It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse

We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance

It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories

Science Advances One Funeral at a Time

Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures

Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions

Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism

Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality

We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen

The Multiverse

Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

Probability Is Subjective

We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics

Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate

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

This Book Changed the Way I Think

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

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

Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage

Take Accountability to Earn Equity

Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage

There's No Actual Skill Called Business

The Foundations Are Math and Logic

Read What You Love Until You Love to Read

Learn to Sell, Learn to Build

Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical

Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge

Partner With Rational Optimists

Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity

Play Long-term Games With Long-term People

The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities

Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get

Live Below Your Means for Freedom

You Won't Get Rich Renting Out Your Time

Make Luck Your Destiny

Making Money Isn't About Luck

Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans

Make Abundance for the World

Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status