
Narratives w/Will Jarvis
Narratives is a project exploring stories about progress.
Narratives is hosted by Will Jarvis. For more content, transcripts, and show notes, check out narrativespodcast.com
Latest episodes

Sep 26, 2022 • 49min
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/

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Sep 19, 2022 • 43min
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.

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Sep 12, 2022 • 59min
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.

Sep 5, 2022 • 57min
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.

Aug 29, 2022 • 54min
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.

Aug 22, 2022 • 57min
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.

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Aug 15, 2022 • 1h 3min
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/

Aug 8, 2022 • 52min
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.

Aug 1, 2022 • 46min
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.

Jul 25, 2022 • 58min
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.