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The Deutsch Files III

Published: Feb. 17, 2024, 12:54 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 18 seconds

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The Deutsch Files II

Published: Jan. 26, 2024, 9:03 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 28 seconds

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The Deutsch Files I

Published: Jan. 11, 2024, 7:31 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 53 seconds

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

Published: Feb. 11, 2023, 6:32 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 50 seconds

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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

Published: April 14, 2022, 2:46 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes

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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1

Published: April 8, 2022, 6:50 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 7 seconds

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The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2

Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 7:53 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds

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To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources

Published: Dec. 13, 2021, 7:59 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds

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Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite

Published: Dec. 10, 2021, 9:32 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds

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Groups Never Admit Failure

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds

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Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It

Published: Dec. 6, 2021, 10:39 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds

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Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback

Published: Dec. 3, 2021, 8:36 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds

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The Poverty of Compromise

Published: Nov. 29, 2021, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds

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Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier

Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 7:39 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds

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Dont Rely on Credibility Stamps

Published: Nov. 22, 2021, 7:47 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds

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One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones

Published: Nov. 19, 2021, 10:27 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds

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Ideas Are the New Oil

Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 6:04 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 3 seconds

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Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources

Published: Nov. 15, 2021, 8:16 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds

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Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away

Published: Nov. 12, 2021, 5:49 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds

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If You Cant Program It, You Dont Understand It

Published: Nov. 10, 2021, 6:34 p.m.
Duration: 43 seconds

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The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small

Published: Nov. 8, 2021, 5:51 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds

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Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth

Published: Nov. 3, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds

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Where Are the Aliens?

Published: Nov. 1, 2021, 7:42 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 5 seconds

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Its Mind Blowing That Our Minds Cant Be Blown

Published: Oct. 30, 2021, 6:39 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds

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More Compute Power Doesnt Produce AGI

Published: Oct. 27, 2021, 7:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds

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We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species

Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 2:34 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds

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Humans Are Exceptional

Published: Oct. 22, 2021, 4:52 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds

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Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 4:51 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds

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There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity

Published: Oct. 18, 2021, 2:55 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds

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No Truth Can Be Justified

Published: Oct. 15, 2021, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds

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

Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds

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The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1

Published: July 2, 2021, 9:22 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Rational Optimism Is the Way Out

Published: May 24, 2021, 11:03 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds

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Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position

Published: May 17, 2021, 7:48 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds

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Its Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse

Published: May 14, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds

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Were All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance

Published: May 12, 2021, 9:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds

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Its Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories

Published: May 11, 2021, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds

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Science Advances One Funeral at a Time

Published: May 7, 2021, 7:19 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 18 seconds

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Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures

Published: May 5, 2021, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds

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Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions

Published: May 3, 2021, 8:03 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 32 seconds

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Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism

Published: April 30, 2021, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds

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Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality

Published: April 28, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds

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We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen

Published: April 26, 2021, 6:16 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds

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The Multiverse

Published: April 21, 2021, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds

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Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

Published: April 19, 2021, 9 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds

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Probability Is Subjective

Published: April 16, 2021, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 6 seconds

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We Cant Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics

Published: April 14, 2021, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds

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Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate

Published: April 12, 2021, 6:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds

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Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?

Published: April 9, 2021, 7:59 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds

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All Knowledge Is Conjectural

Published: April 7, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 17 seconds

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The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible

Published: April 5, 2021, 7:20 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds

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There Is No Settled Mathematics

Published: April 2, 2021, 4:55 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds

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There Is No End of Science

Published: March 31, 2021, 3:17 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 7 seconds

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Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary

Published: March 26, 2021, 6:58 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds

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Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity

Published: March 24, 2021, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds

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Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things

Published: March 22, 2021, 4:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds

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Its Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge

Published: March 19, 2021, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds

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People Are a Force of Nature

Published: March 17, 2021, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds

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Were at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge

Published: March 15, 2021, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

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Happiness

Published: March 12, 2021, 10:51 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds

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Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again

Published: March 10, 2021, 5:43 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds

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We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe

Published: March 8, 2021, 8:09 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds

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Nullius in Verba

Published: March 5, 2021, 6:17 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds

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This Book Changed the Way I Think

Published: March 3, 2021, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds

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The Beginning of Infinity

Published: March 3, 2021, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds

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Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward

Published: March 1, 2021, 5:02 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds

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Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2

Published: July 15, 2020, 4:56 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds

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Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1

Published: July 9, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 50 seconds

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How to Angel Invest, Part 2

Published: June 12, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 28 seconds

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The Path to Peace Is Truth

Published: March 26, 2020, 1:29 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds

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Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth

Published: March 24, 2020, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 5 seconds

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The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside

Published: March 10, 2020, 3:09 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds

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Happiness Is Peace in Motion

Published: March 5, 2020, 2:13 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds

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Finding Peace from Mind

Published: March 3, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds

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Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds

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The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds

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Work the Least for It

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds

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Being Unhappy Is Very Inefficient

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds

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If Youre So Smart, Why Arent You Happy?

Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds

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Desire Is a Contract You Make to Be Unhappy

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 9 seconds

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Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 7:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds

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Happiness Is Not Science or Math

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds

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Happiness Without Material Comfort Is Playing on Hard Mode

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds

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Live Long Enough and Youll Become a Philosopher

Published: Jan. 25, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds

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How to Get Rich: Every Episode + Extras

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 3 hours 35 minutes 36 seconds

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How to Angel Invest

Published: Nov. 17, 2019, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

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How to Angel Invest, Part 1

Published: Nov. 17, 2019, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

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Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products

Published: July 31, 2019, 11:40 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds

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Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today

Published: July 29, 2019, 4:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 2 seconds

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Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid For

Published: July 25, 2019, 11:03 a.m.
Duration: 49 seconds

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Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More

Published: July 23, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds

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Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier

Published: July 19, 2019, 6:13 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 29 seconds

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Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games

Published: July 15, 2019, 3:42 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds

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Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating

Published: July 12, 2019, 12:29 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds

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Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin

Published: July 10, 2019, 10:34 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds

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Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner

Published: July 8, 2019, 6:13 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive

Published: June 28, 2019, 6:23 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 29 seconds

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Being Ethical Is Long-Term Greedy

Published: June 26, 2019, 7:49 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds

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We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves

Published: June 24, 2019, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds

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Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You

Published: June 21, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 39 seconds

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How to Get Rich: Every Episode

Published: June 2, 2019, 7:04 p.m.
Duration: 3 hours 35 minutes 36 seconds

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Productize Yourself

Published: May 24, 2019, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds

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There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes

Published: May 23, 2019, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds

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A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love

Published: May 21, 2019, 7:18 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds

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Reject Most Advice

Published: May 20, 2019, 7:56 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds

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Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve

Published: May 19, 2019, 7:26 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds

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Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

Published: May 17, 2019, 7:01 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 39 seconds

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Escape Competition Through Authenticity

Published: May 16, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 37 seconds

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Keep Redefining What You Do

Published: May 13, 2019, 10:46 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds

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Be Too Busy to Do Coffee

Published: May 8, 2019, 3:01 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 6 seconds

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Work As Hard As You Can

Published: May 6, 2019, 9:47 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds

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Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate

Published: May 1, 2019, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

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Judgment Is the Decisive Skill

Published: April 29, 2019, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

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Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech

Published: April 26, 2019, 7:55 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 24 seconds

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Pick a Business Model With Leverage

Published: April 22, 2019, 1:11 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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Product Leverage Is Egalitarian

Published: April 19, 2019, 9:40 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 11 seconds

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Product and Media Are New Leverage

Published: April 17, 2019, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds

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Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage

Published: April 15, 2019, 11:06 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 42 seconds

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Take Accountability to Earn Equity

Published: April 13, 2019, 8:36 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds

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Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage

Published: April 11, 2019, 9:47 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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There's No Actual Skill Called Business

Published: April 8, 2019, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 33 seconds

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The Foundations Are Math and Logic

Published: April 5, 2019, 2:34 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds

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Read What You Love Until You Love to Read

Published: April 3, 2019, 11:37 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 48 seconds

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Learn to Sell, Learn to Build

Published: March 31, 2019, 10:03 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds

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Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical

Published: March 28, 2019, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds

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Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge

Published: March 25, 2019, 6:35 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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Partner With Rational Optimists

Published: March 22, 2019, 1:44 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds

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Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity

Published: March 22, 2019, 1:18 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 44 seconds

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Play Long-term Games With Long-term People

Published: March 19, 2019, 2:29 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities

Published: March 19, 2019, 1:17 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 40 seconds

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Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get

Published: March 14, 2019, 1:01 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds

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Live Below Your Means for Freedom

Published: March 11, 2019, 3:18 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 23 seconds

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You Won't Get Rich Renting Out Your Time

Published: March 8, 2019, 3:17 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 40 seconds

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Make Luck Your Destiny

Published: March 7, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 36 seconds

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Making Money Isn't About Luck

Published: March 6, 2019, 5:33 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds

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Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans

Published: March 6, 2019, 5:07 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 9 seconds

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Make Abundance for the World

Published: March 5, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 24 seconds

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Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status

Published: March 5, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

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