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Get in The Ring
Episode • Aug 29
Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
Episode • Aug 26
Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did
Episode • Aug 7
Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval’s Chief of Staff
Episode • Aug 3
You Have to Enjoy It a Lot
Episode • Jul 31
Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action
Episode • Jul 30
When You Truly Work for Yourself
Episode • Jul 26
In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
Episode • Jul 25
If You Want to Learn, Do
Episode • Jul 22
Life is lived in the arena
Episode • Jul 18
Inspiration all the way down
Episode • Jul 16
The Deutsch Files IV
Episode • Oct 11, 2024
The Deutsch Files III
Episode • Feb 17, 2024
The Deutsch Files II
Episode • Jan 26, 2024
The Deutsch Files I
Episode • Jan 11, 2024
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
Episode • Aug 11, 2023
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
Episode • Feb 11, 2023
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
Episode • Apr 14, 2022
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
Episode • Apr 8, 2022
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
Episode • Dec 22, 2021
To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
Episode • Dec 13, 2021
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
Episode • Dec 10, 2021
Groups Never Admit Failure
Episode • Dec 8, 2021
Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
Episode • Dec 6, 2021
Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
Episode • Dec 3, 2021
The Poverty of Compromise
Episode • Nov 29, 2021
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
Episode • Nov 24, 2021
Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
Episode • Nov 22, 2021
One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
Episode • Nov 19, 2021
Ideas Are the New Oil
Episode • Nov 17, 2021
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
Episode • Nov 15, 2021
Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
Episode • Nov 12, 2021
If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It
Episode • Nov 10, 2021
The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
Episode • Nov 8, 2021
Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
Episode • Nov 3, 2021
Where Are the Aliens?
Episode • Nov 1, 2021
It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown
Episode • Oct 30, 2021
More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI
Episode • Oct 27, 2021
We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
Episode • Oct 25, 2021
Humans Are Exceptional
Episode • Oct 22, 2021
Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
Episode • Oct 20, 2021
There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
Episode • Oct 18, 2021
No Truth Can Be Justified
Episode • Oct 15, 2021
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
Episode • Oct 8, 2021
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
Episode • Jul 2, 2021
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
Episode • May 24, 2021
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
Episode • May 17, 2021
It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
Episode • May 14, 2021
We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
Episode • May 12, 2021
It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
Episode • May 11, 2021
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
Episode • May 7, 2021
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures
Episode • May 5, 2021
Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions
Episode • May 3, 2021
Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism
Episode • Apr 30, 2021
Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
Episode • Apr 28, 2021
We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
Episode • Apr 26, 2021
The Multiverse
Episode • Apr 21, 2021
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
Episode • Apr 19, 2021
Probability Is Subjective
Episode • Apr 16, 2021
We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics
Episode • Apr 14, 2021
Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
Episode • Apr 12, 2021
Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?
Episode • Apr 9, 2021
All Knowledge Is Conjectural
Episode • Apr 7, 2021
The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
Episode • Apr 5, 2021
There Is No Settled Mathematics
Episode • Apr 2, 2021
There Is No End of Science
Episode • Mar 31, 2021
Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary
Episode • Mar 26, 2021
Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
Episode • Mar 24, 2021
Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
Episode • Mar 22, 2021
It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge
Episode • Mar 19, 2021
People Are a Force of Nature
Episode • Mar 17, 2021
We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge
Episode • Mar 15, 2021
Happiness
Episode • Mar 12, 2021
Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again
Episode • Mar 10, 2021
We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe
Episode • Mar 8, 2021
Nullius in Verba
Episode • Mar 5, 2021
This Book Changed the Way I Think
Episode • Mar 3, 2021
Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward
Episode • Mar 1, 2021
Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2
Episode • Jul 15, 2020
Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1
Episode • Jul 9, 2020
How to Angel Invest, Part 2
Episode • Jun 12, 2020
The Path to Peace Is Truth
Episode • Mar 26, 2020
Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
Episode • Mar 24, 2020
The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside
Episode • Mar 10, 2020
Happiness Is Peace in Motion
Episode • Mar 5, 2020
Finding Peace from Mind
Episode • Mar 3, 2020
Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable
Episode • Feb 26, 2020
The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction
Episode • Feb 24, 2020
Work the Least for It
Episode • Feb 19, 2020
Being Unhappy Is Very Inefficient
Episode • Feb 17, 2020
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
Episode • Feb 12, 2020
Desire Is a Contract You Make to Be Unhappy
Episode • Feb 10, 2020
Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop
Episode • Feb 3, 2020
Happiness Is Not Science or Math
Episode • Jan 28, 2020
Happiness Without Material Comfort Is Playing on Hard Mode
Episode • Jan 28, 2020
Live Long Enough and You’ll Become a Philosopher
Episode • Jan 25, 2020
How to Get Rich: Every Episode
Episode • Dec 10, 2019
How to Angel Invest, Part 1
Episode • Nov 17, 2019
Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products
Episode • Jul 31, 2019
Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today
Episode • Jul 29, 2019
Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid For
Episode • Jul 25, 2019
Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More
Episode • Jul 23, 2019
Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier
Episode • Jul 19, 2019
Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games
Episode • Jul 15, 2019
Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating
Episode • Jul 12, 2019
Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin
Episode • Jul 10, 2019
Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner
Episode • Jul 8, 2019
Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive
Episode • Jun 28, 2019
Being Ethical Is Long-Term Greedy
Episode • Jun 26, 2019
We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves
Episode • Jun 24, 2019
Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You
Episode • Jun 21, 2019
How to Get Rich: Every Episode
Episode • Jun 2, 2019
Productize Yourself
Episode • May 24, 2019
There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes
Episode • May 23, 2019
A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
Episode • May 21, 2019
Reject Most Advice
Episode • May 20, 2019
Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve
Episode • May 19, 2019
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Episode • May 17, 2019
Escape Competition Through Authenticity
Episode • May 16, 2019
Keep Redefining What You Do
Episode • May 13, 2019
Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee”
Episode • May 8, 2019
Work As Hard As You Can
Episode • May 6, 2019
Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate
Episode • May 1, 2019
Judgment Is the Decisive Skill
Episode • Apr 29, 2019
Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech
Episode • Apr 26, 2019
Pick a Business Model With Leverage
Episode • Apr 22, 2019
Product Leverage Is Egalitarian
Episode • Apr 19, 2019
Product and Media Are New Leverage
Episode • Apr 17, 2019
Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage
Episode • Apr 15, 2019
Take Accountability to Earn Equity
Episode • Apr 13, 2019
Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage
Episode • Apr 11, 2019
There's No Actual Skill Called Business
Episode • Apr 8, 2019
The Foundations Are Math and Logic
Episode • Apr 5, 2019
Read What You Love Until You Love to Read
Episode • Apr 3, 2019
Learn to Sell, Learn to Build
Episode • Mar 31, 2019
Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical
Episode • Mar 28, 2019
Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge
Episode • Mar 25, 2019
Partner With Rational Optimists
Episode • Mar 22, 2019
Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
Episode • Mar 22, 2019
Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
Episode • Mar 19, 2019
The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
Episode • Mar 19, 2019
Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
Episode • Mar 14, 2019
Live Below Your Means for Freedom
Episode • Mar 11, 2019
You Won't Get Rich Renting Out Your Time
Episode • Mar 8, 2019
Make Luck Your Destiny
Episode • Mar 7, 2019
Making Money Isn't About Luck
Episode • Mar 6, 2019
Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans
Episode • Mar 6, 2019
Make Abundance for the World
Episode • Mar 5, 2019
Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status
Episode • Mar 5, 2019
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