By Naval
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2024-10-11 The Deutsch Files IV
2024-02-17 The Deutsch Files III
2024-01-26 The Deutsch Files II
2024-01-11 The Deutsch Files I
2023-08-11 David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
2023-02-11 David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
2022-04-14 Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
2022-04-08 Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
2021-12-22 The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
2021-12-13 To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
2021-12-10 Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
2021-12-08 Groups Never Admit Failure
2021-12-06 Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
2021-12-03 Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
2021-11-29 The Poverty of Compromise
2021-11-24 Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
2021-11-22 Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
2021-11-19 One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
2021-11-17 Ideas Are the New Oil
2021-11-15 Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
2021-11-12 Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
2021-11-10 If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It
2021-11-08 The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
2021-11-03 Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
2021-11-01 Where Are the Aliens?
2021-10-30 It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown
2021-10-27 More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI
2021-10-25 We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
2021-10-22 Humans Are Exceptional
2021-10-20 Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
2021-10-18 There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
2021-10-15 No Truth Can Be Justified
2021-10-08 With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
2021-07-02 The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
2021-05-24 Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
2021-05-17 Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
2021-05-14 It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
2021-05-12 We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
2021-05-11 It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
2021-05-07 Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
2021-05-05 Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out the Failures
2021-05-03 Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions
2021-04-30 Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism
2021-04-28 Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
2021-04-26 We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
2021-04-19 Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
2021-04-16 Probability Is Subjective
2021-04-14 We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics
2021-04-12 Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
2021-04-09 Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?
2021-04-07 All Knowledge Is Conjectural
2021-04-05 The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
2021-04-02 There Is No Settled Mathematics
2021-03-31 There Is No End of Science
2021-03-26 Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary
2021-03-24 Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
2021-03-22 Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
2021-03-19 It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge
2021-03-17 People Are a Force of Nature
2021-03-15 We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge
2021-03-10 Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again
2021-03-08 We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe
2021-03-03 This Book Changed the Way I Think
2021-03-01 Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward
2020-07-15 Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2
2020-07-09 Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1
2020-06-12 How to Angel Invest, Part 2
2020-03-26 The Path to Peace Is Truth
2020-03-24 Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
2020-03-10 The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside
2020-03-05 Happiness Is Peace in Motion
2020-03-03 Finding Peace from Mind
2020-02-26 Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable
2020-02-24 The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction
2020-02-19 Work the Least for It
2020-02-17 Being Unhappy Is Very Inefficient
2020-02-12 If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
2020-02-10 Desire Is a Contract You Make to be Unhappy
2020-02-03 Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop
2020-01-28 Happiness Is Not Science or Math
2020-01-28 Happiness Without Material Comfort Is Playing on Hard Mode
2020-01-25 Live Long Enough and You’ll Become a Philosopher
2019-12-10 How to Get Rich: Every Episode
2019-11-17 How to Angel Invest
2019-07-31 Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products
2019-07-29 Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today
2019-07-25 Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid For
2019-07-23 Price Discrimination: Charge People More for More
2019-07-19 Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier
2019-07-15 Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games
2019-07-12 Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating
2019-07-10 Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin
2019-07-08 Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner
2019-06-28 Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive
2019-06-26 Being Ethical Is Long-term Greedy
2019-06-24 We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves
2019-06-21 Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You
2019-06-02 How to Get Rich: Every Episode
2019-05-24 Productize Yourself
2019-05-23 There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes
2019-05-21 A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
2019-05-19 Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve
2019-05-17 Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
2019-05-16 Escape Competition Through Authenticity
2019-05-13 Keep Redefining What You Do
2019-05-08 Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee”
2019-05-06 Work As Hard As You Can
2019-05-01 Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate
2019-04-29 Judgment Is the Decisive Skill
2019-04-26 Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech
2019-04-22 Pick a Business Model With Leverage
2019-04-19 Product Leverage Is Egalitarian
2019-04-17 Product and Media Are New Leverage
2019-04-15 Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage
2019-04-13 Take Accountability to Earn Equity
2019-04-11 Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage
2019-04-08 There's No Actual Skill Called Business
2019-04-05 The Foundations Are Math and Logic
2019-04-03 Read What You Love Until You Love to Read
2019-03-31 Learn to Sell, Learn to Build
2019-03-28 Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical
2019-03-25 Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge
2019-03-22 Partner With Rational Optimists
2019-03-22 Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
2019-03-19 Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
2019-03-19 The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
2019-03-14 Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
2019-03-11 Live Below Your Means for Freedom
2019-03-08 You Won't Get Rich Renting Out Your Time
2019-03-07 Make Luck Your Destiny
2019-03-06 Making Money Isn't about Luck
2019-03-06 Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans
2019-03-05 Make Abundance for the World
2019-03-05 Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status
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