Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government and Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality. Support this podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani TIMESTAMPS 0:39 - On a quest for the best life that you can achieve 4:02 - Happiness without morality or morality without happiness 5:27 - The interests of humans are at harmony 7:58 - Sacrifice is no...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast where he’s interviewed people like Bryan Johnson, Morgan Housel, Gary Vaynerchuck, David Perell, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Sam Parr, Anthony Pompliano, Derek Sivers, among many others. If you enjoy the podcast, the best way to support it is by sharing it. And if you have the means, please consider buying me a coffee . TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - 7-year-old Danny taking over the New York Times 2:17 - Thoughts on creating content 5:09 - The desire to be normal...
Feb 06, 2023•55 min
Support this podcast using this link: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani James Pierce is a writer, executive coach and a philosopher. TIMESTAMPS 0:50 - How modern psychology weakens the mind and how to conquer anxiety 4:15 - Perspective and “direct observation” 8:25 - Shoulds, prescriptions, and inexplicit knowledge 15:58 - Sincere questions 17:59 - Why James doesn’t meditate, the sense of sense, and enlightenment 21:05 - The ultimate cause for all relationship problems 26:20 - Peace 33:30 - Insincer...
Jan 15, 2023•41 min
If you’d wish to support this podcast, click here . David Perell is a writer, podcaster and founder of the course Write of Passage. We talk about David’s new writing course for high schoolers, why he thinks the Internet is the best thing that happened to education, writing online and effective ways to do so, how to tackle long term goals, ChatGPT and more! TIMESTAMPS 0:30 - The problem David is trying to solve with his new writing course for high schoolers 6:10 - What David would do and how he w...
Dec 17, 2022•42 min
Andrew Kirby is a YouTuber with over 600,000 subscribers who became financially free at age 22 by synthesizing content on the Internet. We talk about the path Andrew takes to attain financial freedom at age 22, how to write good cold DMs, entrepreneurship, misconceptions around money, The Beginning of Infinity and Andrew’s most influential books, the pursuit of creation, happiness and much more! Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Andrew’s backstory // his entrepreneurial child...
Dec 02, 2022•46 min
Chiara is a quantum physicist and research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research interests are at the foundations of physics. Together with David Deutsch she is the pioneer of constructor theory, a new mode of scientific explanation which expresses physical laws in terms of counterfactuals, i.e. what can and cannot happen. She is the author of The Science of Can and Can’t subtitled “A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals” which is all about constructor ...
Nov 22, 2022•56 min
Charlie Jungheim (aka Hermes of Reason) makes really cool videos about Critical Rationalism following the works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch. He’s a musician and comedian. In a fun and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about mixing comedy with intellectual stuff, our lives being transformed by the works of David Deutsch, how meditation links to epistemology, then Mars and more! TIMESTAMPS 0:45 - Charlie’s INCREDIBLE content around critical rationalism (comedy mixed with intellectual stuff) ...
Nov 12, 2022•53 min
Michael Strong is the founder of a virtual school called The Socratic Experience, made for children aged 8-19 where they get a personalized and purpose-driven education cultivated to develop their unique genius. He is one of the most experienced designers of innovative school programs in the United States. In our conversation, we talk about Michael’s vision for education in 20 years, deschooling society, Socratic questioning, the future of education and much more! Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spo...
Nov 04, 2022•40 min
Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder. We talk about the need to study progress, tackle the question of whether progress makes humans any happier, optimism and solutionism, and some more. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . TIMESTAMPS: 0:38 - Why we need a new philosophy of progress 3:54 - “Almost noth...
Oct 14, 2022•38 min
In this episode, I talk to Chris Turner. A tech entrepreneur turned education entrepreneur who founded Moonrise, a co-learning space for kids. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . We talk about the problem with school, bad explanations around learning, the hard (yet exciting) problem Moonrise is solving, Taking Children Seriously and much more. This was a very fun and insightful conversation! Hope you find it so to. TIMESTAMPS 0:30 - How Chris came from the startup world to the alt-education sp...
Oct 09, 2022•56 min
TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Jay is one of the coolest people I’ve met 1:56 - What’s wrong with the school system and how to escape it 5:48 - Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and dropping out 8:18 - Become more valuable by learning high value skills 10:45 - Voids create value / why Jay wants to change the way education is done 13:20 - Digital Nomad and filming a documentary in the Arctic Circle 21:10 - The most profound thing Jay learned from traveling to 57 countries 24:30 - All morality is localiz...
Oct 01, 2022•49 min
Links * Aastha Jain * Live Longer World podcast * Feynman Kids Program * Blog post by Aastha: Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension Timestamps 1:05 - An important question: should we stop aging? 3:27 - What if people don’t change their minds? 5:35 - It’s in human nature to go against nature 7:14 - Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension 15:20 - Greater chance for statism if a generation extends indefinitely? 18:26 - Population and pessimism 25:26 - Doesn’t death give life meaning? 34:56 - The im...
Jul 07, 2022•50 min
This was a very fun conversation with Sarah on the manner in which children are generically raised and why that is not helpful, the importance of Taking Children Seriously and raising a child without coercion, fallibilism, the growth of knowledge, problem-solving, her inspiration for founding Taking Children Seriously and much more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.arjunkhemani.com...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Brett's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToKTeacher Brett's blog: https://bretthall.org Brett's podcast (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmP5H2rF-ER33a58ZD5jCig This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.arjunkhemani.com...
May 21, 2022•52 min
