Narratives w/Will Jarvis

113: Stuart Buck - The Good Science Project

In this episode, I talk with Stuart about metascience, why the age of NIH grantees has risen so much, how to improve science, and how well our current funding organizations work. 

Stuart runs the Good Science Project. https://goodscienceproject.org/

112: Emad Mostaque - AI, Alignment and Stable Diffusion

In this episode, we're joined by Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability.ai to talk about his recent release of Stable Diffusion (an open source transformer language model), AI ethics, AI alignment, and what large language models mean for the fuutre. 

This episode was co-hosted by Lars Doucet.  

111: Nathan Baschez - Strategy, Writing and Content

In this episode we're joined by Nathan Baschez, cofounder of Every. We discuss business strategy, how win with content, and the art of writing well. 

110: Sam Bowman - The Housing Theory of Everything

In this episode, we are joined by Sam Bowman to talk about the housing theory of everything, the slowdown in science and technology, the long term economic future of the UK, and a whole lot more. 

109: David Goldberg - Founders Pledge, Philanthropy and Doing Good

In this episode we are joined by Founders Pledge CEO David Goldberg to discuss philanthropy, how best to do good, and how startup founders should think about prioritizing their charitable giving. 

108: Noah Smith - Abundance, Georgism and YIMBYism

In this episode we're joined by Noah Smith to talk about Georgism, why we need abundant energy, housing, heathcare and dignity, and the success of the YIMBY movement. Noah Smith is an economist who blogs at https://noahpinion.substack.com/ This episode was co-hosted by Lars Doucet.

107: Byrne Hobart - Bubbles, Finance and the EMH

In this episode of Narratives, we're joined by Byrne Hobart to discuss finance, bubbles, reflexivity, George Soros, the EMH and a whole lot more.

Byrne blogs at the https://www.thediff.co/

106: Paul Morland - Demographics and the Fertility Crisis

In this episode, we are joined by the demographer Paul Morland to discuss his new book Tomorrow's People. We discuss the decline in infant mortality, the lack of population growth in the developed world and what has caused it, urbanization, fertility, population decline in the West, and a whole lot more. 

105: Arpit Gupta - Transit, Zoning and Infrastructure

In this episode, we're joined by NYU professor Arpit Gupta to talk about transit, zoning, land value taxes and housing. We also discuss land value capture and public transit. This episode features my friend Lars Doucet as a co-host. 

104: Matt Clifford - Ambition, Agency and Talent Investing

In this episode, we're joined by Matt Clifford to talk about the history of ambition, his work building Entrepreneur First, cofounder matching, talent investing, and how to direct more talented people into better career paths.