Episodes

  • A Motorcycle for the Mind
    Feb 18 2026

    If you want to learn, do 0:00

    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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    52 mins
  • Curate People
    Oct 30 2025

    The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 0:00

    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

    Transcript: http://nav.al/curate-people

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    52 mins
  • In the Arena
    Oct 7 2025

    Inspiration All the Way Down 0:00

    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

    Transcript http://nav.al/in-the-arena

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    42 mins
  • Complex Systems Emerge from Iterations on Simple Designs
    Oct 2 2025

    http://nav.al/iterate

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    6 mins
  • Good Products Are Hard to Vary
    Sep 29 2025

    http://nav.al/interconnect

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    3 mins
  • Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured
    Sep 23 2025

    Transcript: http://nav.al/devour

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    4 mins
  • The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time
    Sep 22 2025

    Transcript: http://nav.al/density

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    3 mins
  • It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature
    Sep 21 2025

    Transcript: http://nav.al/fool

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    4 mins