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Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Loved the interview and good questions overall. I like the candidness with which Naval speaks.

A friendly suggestion to the interviewer: please keep the uhms and yeahs when the other person is speaking to a minimum or none. It's distracting and spoils the listening experience, especially when it's audio only. I also heard a phone buzz at one point :)

That said, great score on getting Naval on Outliers.

Agreed. A bit of silence is fine while you're listening to a response.

I'm always bothered by un-edited podcasts. It isn't hard. I have a tiny little podcast with few listeners and still edit them all. For an hour long podcast I can easily cut out 5 minutes worth of pauses, "ummm"s, "you know"s, talking over each other and mis-talking. Makes the podcast sound so much smoother.

Probably takes me somewhere between 2-3 hours to edit a 1 hour podcast. Yes, that is a lot, but if 100 people listen to it and it saves then 5 minutes then that is well worth it. As an added plus, you and your guests sound a lot smarter.

I like the saving others time math - nice way to think about it.

The Joe Rogan Experience is probably my favorite podcast and the unedited nature of it is one big plus. I think people over-exaggerate uhs and umms. If it's every other word, yeah. Otherwise, it's not THAT big of a deal in most cases.

did you listen to this one?

Some need it more than others. The local news is live and doesn't need editing because the people doing the broadcast are pros. Joe Rogan is an absolute pro who has been an actor, comedian, game show host, UFC commentator in addition to being an excellent and experienced radio host. He makes a 3-hour unedited podcast seem easy, where for me I don't think I could do 10 minutes smoothly even if I had it all planned out.

I don't know if Joe Rogan always records in a sound studio, but in my experience having a good mic is like 75% of the battle, and being in the same room as your guest also helps minimize the interjections. In addition of course to having an extremely experienced and professional host to keep the flow.

For my particular podcast my co-host and I always record remotely, but each of us record our sound locally and then I edit the streams together after the fact. You wont find many top tier podcasts that don't do this because the audio dump from skype/hangouts puts a very low ceiling on your sound quality and if you don't have separate streams then editing becomes much harder.

Still though I don't want to make it sound like it is hard. It isn't. Two microphones, a couple of hours of editing in Audacity (free, open source) and you get a very good sounding podcast. You don't need a sound studio or a degree in audio engineering.

What's your podcast by the way?

This is hard to listen to with the hmms

Agree regarding the uhms and yeahs being distracting. And agree with other poster that it should have been edited out. But as a note - I think, that is something cultural. It was an adjustment I had to make when I migrated to US. Growing up in India, it gave impression that you are paying attention, at-least in my circles.

> I think, that is something cultural.

Yep, I think so too. Indian here also, living in US. Other phrases our peeps utter, similiar to 'uhms' are 'you know' and 'yaa?'. A couple of off-shore peeps I was dealing with were doing this in every other sentence and it was very distracting on our conference calls.

Related: Naval Ravikant interviewed by Shane Parrish (long podcast episode):

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-read...

One of the most insightful podcast ! I'm sharing you my personal notes on it: https://gist.github.com/BenderV/44901bac756ff3b8279d018eb1e2...

The guy who made AngelList, which facilitates business networking, hates business networking for himself.

Naval has such clarity of thoughts. How does one achieve this ? Is this something that can be learnt ?

Philosophy and meditation.

experiences and watchfully learning from them.

Read the works of clear thinkers (subject is not so important.)

Two that leap to mind: Wendell Berry and Norbert Wiener

Thank you

Also, having to refine and articulate your thoughts

Lots of LSD

Clarity of thought isn't something I'd associate with lots of LSD. Typically I find chronic users struggle to articulate their thoughts and appear 'spacy'.

(imo) Putting things into perspective (e.g. "pale blue dot" )

Love Naval. Great mentor.

Suggest more people with similar values & vibe. Don't have to be currently among the living neither. Found this site thanks to him, and he has been adding a great deal of value to me ever since I first heard of him. Grateful to say the least.

The interviewer seems to be fawning over Naval, or maybe he's easily amused. Either way, it was kinda annoying, but a good interview nevertheless.

OT: Is AngelList still a thing? Anyone still using it?

Edit: Since this post got dovnvotes let me get my point clear. None of my friends ever raised funds via AngelList, they raised by approaching investors directly (they say raising via AngelList is super needy and bad for your reputation), AngelList's traffic is not growing anymore rather the opposite, their job section is quite popular among startups but again, does AngelList play nowadays a crucial role for fundraising? My feeling says not really but maybe I am wrong and you know and can tell us why people still should use AngelList.

Think of AngelList as a platform for angel investors to leverage their expertise with outside capital. These days, founders don't raise on AngelList, rather angel investors use AngelList to raise capital for their deals. There's a group of people who have very good instinct, connections, and dealflow, but don't have enough personal liquid capital to be writing frequent large checks. There's also quite a bit of capital that doesn't itself have this access. AngelList brings those two groups together; and it all happens privately behind the scenes. Angels can write 100k+ checks out of lightweight funds, or on a deal-by-deal basis. Outside investors can get exposed to high quality early-stage deals.

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