Richard Feynman
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2017 by Naval Ravikant · said 19 times in 10 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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- Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
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Apr 11, 2017 negative
Ravikant: The universe has no intrinsic meaning due to infinite regress
“There's no fundamental, intrinsic, purposeful meaning to the universe. Because if there was, then you would just ask the next question. You'd say, well, why is that the meaning? Right? So it would just be, as Richard Feynman said, it'd be turtles all the way d…”
Apr 22, 2025 positive
Singleton and Richard Feynman Won MIT's First Putnam Math Competition
“In 1939, he was on a three-man team that won the William Lau Putnam Prize, an elite math competition. It was MIT's first time winning this award. His teammate? None other than the future Nobel physicist and outlier Richard Feynman.”