Category: Interviews

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

    Brett Hall and I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Also see Part 1. Popper’s Impact One of the other things that is counterintuitive—and one of the misconceptions that I see crop up out there in academia, intellectual circles, education—is that people think that there’s a final theory. More

  • David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race

    I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Background My goal isn’t to do yet another podcast with David Deutsch. There are plenty of those. I would love to tease out some of the very counterintuitive learnings, put them down canonically in such a way that future generations can benefit from…

  • Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

    This post is by naval from Naval Haseeb and I interview Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum and blockchains. Also see Part 1. Protocol Politics The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains Haseeb: Vitalik, I want to ask you a little bit about how your role has evolved since it began at Ethereum. In the very beginning before all of this, of…

  • Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1

    This post is by naval from Naval Part one of my interview with Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum and blockchains Transcript Naval: Welcome back to the podcast. We have with us Haseeb Qureshi, who is a partner at Dragonfly and someone I used to work with back when I was more active in crypto-land. And we…

  • Glass

    This post is by Om Malik from On my Om Through the looking GLASS “We’re no longer a photosharing app,” Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, a division of Facebook.  Let’s face it: everything Facebook touches eventually turns into an engagement honeypot behind which lies an algorithmic whirlpool designed to suck attention that can be packaged…

  • Nitin Sawhney

    This post is by Om Malik from On my Om For a long time, Nitin Sawhney has occupied a prime slot on my very short bucket list of people to interview. I first encountered his music in the early 1990s, and to a great extent, he has provided the soundtrack to my adult life. Perhaps…

  • Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2

    This post is by naval from Naval Innovation is the parent of prosperity Naval interviews Matt Ridley, the author of The Red Queen and, recently, How Innovation Works. Also see Part 1. Innovation Famine Matt: I have a chapter towards the end of the book where I complain about the fact that we are living…

  • Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1

    This post is by naval from Naval Innovation is the child of freedom Naval interviews Matt Ridley, the author of The Red Queen and, recently, How Innovation Works. Transcript Naval: I don’t have heroes, but there are people who I look up to and have learned a lot from, and Matt Ridley, who is on…