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Health food entrepreneur Lizanne Falsetto and I discuss how she built a health food empire that sold for 217 million and how she is now disrupting the dairy industry with betterland milk.
We talk about how she pioneered the protein bar industry. We also talk about her latest venture - making milk without cows from fermented whey proteins.
She shares what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how she became so damn smart (my words), and things you can do to improve your odds of success.
Links: https://www.lizannefalsetto.com/
https://www.woobars.com/
https://www.betterlandmilk.com/
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Bryan Caplan and I discuss the ideas of the iconoclast social critic and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Dr. Caplan won the Thomas Szasz award in 2005 for his paper, The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness. We have a wide-ranging conversation about Szasz, his ideas, and how to help ourselves and others when struggling with life. Dr. Caplan shares some of his personal experiences with depression during Covid and how he got out of it.
Related Episodes
Bryan Caplan on Parenting: https://youtu.be/JM0dGLRgko0
Anthony Stadlen on Szasz: https://youtu.be/wzVVLgpgLBA
Jeffrey Schaler on Szasz: https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14
Christopher Lane on Shyness: https://youtu.be/GrV46aVkNvM
Irvin Kirsch on Antidepressants: https://youtu.be/PtubmyA3BgU
Related Videos
John Nash on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/SizS1nOOeJg
Take These Broken Wings (Documentary about Schizophrenia): https://youtu.be/EPfKc-TknWU
Titicut Follies (Mistreatment of Involuntary Patients): https://youtu.be/e-wVwtN5f-U
Crazywise Film: https://youtu.be/IXnmBIYaIZE
Jim Van Os on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0
Chapters:
00:00 Intro to Bryan Caplan https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan
00:35 Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids https://amzn.to/3NZcxQg
00:56 How did you discover Thomas Szasz?
01:33 The Untamed Tongue https://amzn.to/3NYtTwI
02:07 Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences https://amzn.to/3aAp3bn
02:34 Myth of Mental Illness https://amzn.to/3ANgIvp
02:57 Ceremonial Chemistry https://amzn.to/3P4IBU5
03:25 How long did it take you to understand Szasz?
06:13 What do you think most people misunderstood about Szasz?
08:14 Heavy drinkers respond to incentives https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1i5
10:55 How homosexuality got declassified as a disease
11:41 Transvestism
12:34 The Useful Lie https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1eT
12:56 Responsibility
14:34 Criticisms of Szasz
15:42 Szasz as a philosopher of mind https://wp.me/p8ReVr-rs
16:34 Scott Alexander https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/07/contra-caplan-on-mental-illness/
17:53 Drapetomania https://g.co/kgs/5qVtCe
18:06 What was it like to meet Szasz? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/thomas_szasz_a.html
19:29 Suicide https://amzn.to/3RuQS5w
20:05 Why do you think Szasz wrote so much?
21:00 Did you get pushback when writing your paper on Szasz?
22:19 Shakespeare and Szasz
23:24 Has Szasz helped you in your personal life?
27:12 Brittany Spears
28:27 Addiction is a Choice https://wp.me/p8ReVr-9U
29:05 Karl Kraus https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1hz
29:51 Szasz's political beliefs
31:13 Suicide
32:29 Epicurus https://epicurus.net/en/menoeceus.html
32:54 Julian Simon https://amzn.to/3P4Kct3
35:17 Surround yourself with friends
36:11 How do you stay productive?
37:51 Lucretius http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.html
39:01 How do you deal with depression during Covid?
41:16 Faith in Freedom https://amzn.to/3caLvIq
41:38 Free will https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/freewill
43:38 Writing advice
44:45 The Baader Meinhof Complex https://youtu.be/2UPrDdb0r70
46:43 Economics of Szasz http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/szasz.pdf
49:50 Rational vs. Irrational
52:53 Schizophrenia https://amzn.to/3AK5yb3
56:10 Biographies of schizophrenics https://amzn.to/3IBtJu0
59:15 Hearing voices https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0
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Mark Eglinton talks with me about his adventures in writing, and his latest book on John McAfee's life called, No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes (https://amzn.to/35cIHr8).
Chapters:
00:00:00 Mark Eglinton https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton
00:00:33 How did Mark become a writer?
00:01:30 From caddy to writer
00:05:30 Do the work, just do it
00:06:00 Where do you start?
00:08:20 How do you start?
00:09:20 Get some distance from your work
00:10:27 Writing is the sexiest job ever
00:12:00 How is the money in writing?
00:12:15 Make shit happen
00:13:10 How Mark started working with John McAfee
00:14:28 John McAfee is The Great White Whale
00:15:45 Was John telling the truth?
00:19:00 Working with John was like being in a James Bond movie
00:20:45 John's relationship with his kids
00:24:10 John's early life as a programmer
00:25:40 John's work for NASA
00:27:44 John applied math to relationships
00:29:00 Did John ever work hard?
00:29:34 John and methamphetamine
00:30:28 John didn't want a corporate life
00:31:40 John's outlandish spending
00:32:23 John McAfee and yoga
00:33:15 John's yoga books https://amzn.to/3wBV4Z1
00:34:50 Amanda Milius https://mobile.twitter.com/amandamilius
00:35:55 John McAfee weeps
00:37:27 John understood the human spirit
00:38:25 John leaves Belize
00:40:00 John marries Janice
00:41:00 John on the run in the US
00:41:40 Was John just paranoid?
00:42:18 Janice ties to poison John
00:43:10 John cancels the book project
00:46:30 Was John broke?
00:48:00 Canonic books on bitcoin
00:49:40 Books as NFTs
00:51:00 Will tech control us, or will we control tech?
00:52:00 Extras associated w/ the NFT
00:55:40 Canonic is seeing into the future
00:57:25 Steve Bannon
00:59:40 Mark on Twitter https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton
01:00:00 Mark on Twetch https://twetch.com/u/68864
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Low-Mileage Running is a short guide to running faster, injury free. It focuses on avoiding injury while optimizing your training. The book provides practical training advice, workouts, and sample training plans for the 5k to Marathon. Throughout this book, I share how you can maximize your training and reduce injuries while running fewer miles. By listening to your body and focusing on quality workouts tailored to your event, you can improve your performance and avoid injury. Download the free PDF book here: https://aaronolson.blog/books/
Chapters:
00:00:00 Opening Credits
00:00:11 Introduction
00:00:36 How I Got Started
00:02:17 A New Approach
00:05:12 Quality Workouts
00:06:25 Stress + Rest = Adaptation
00:07:42 Creating Quality Workouts
00:08:02 Time Trials
00:09:52 Race Time Predictor https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/a761681/rws-race-time-predictor/
00:11:25 Intervals
00:12:56 Tracking workouts
00:13:54 Intensity
00:15:19 Training the Central Governor
00:16:53 Recovery
00:18:40 Training Guidelines
00:18:43 Economics of Running
00:19:46 Listen to Your Body
00:21:12 Adjusting on the Fly
00:21:33 Take a Holistic Approach
00:22:24 Follow the 80:20 Rule
00:23:15 Find the Minimum Effective Dose
00:24:15 Race Your Way Into Shape
00:25:46 Similar Workouts
00:26:19 Train Performance Not Physiology
00:27:13 Cross-training
00:27:50 Strength Training
00:28:19 Stretching
00:29:10 Sample Training Plans
00:29:51 Training Plans Guidelines http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/
00:30:29 5k Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-5k-training-plan/
00:30:52 10k Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-10k-training-plan/
00:31:16 Half-Marathon Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-half-marathon-training-plan/
00:31:42 Marathon Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-marathon-training-plan/
00:32:17 Jeff Ford Interview https://youtu.be/FG4dJmqPOQA
00:33:30 Conclusion
00:34:26 Closing Credits
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I talk with David Gornoski about René Girard's ideas on the role of scapegoating in society. David says that Jesus turned the traditional role of scapegoating on it's head. He maintains that Christ changed the course of society by destroying the pagan use of scapegoating.
Chapters:
00:00:00 David Gornoski https://aneighborschoice.com/
00:01:00 Jeff Diest https://mises.org/profile/jeff-deist
00:01:40 Science and U Show https://aneighborschoice.com/show/science-and-u/
00:03:45 Things Hidden Podcast https://aneighborschoice.com/show/things-hidden/
00:04:00 René Girard https://amzn.to/3MZYtqq
00:08:30 Scapegoating & The Science
00:11:00 Jesus Changed the role of Scapegoating
00:13:25 Mimetic desire
00:16:14 The left and mimetic desire
00:18:40 The traditional scapegoat
00:19:40 Jesus and the scapegoat
00:21:05 What's wrong with scapegoating?
00:23:18 Since Christ came, scapegoating no longer works
00:27:35 Marcionite Christian Church against COVID https://aaronolson.blog/2021/11/26/marcionite-christian-church-and-the-covid-scam/
00:30:00 Christ inverts the scapegoating mechanism
00:34:00 Myth helps us contain violence
00:35:09 The Gospels reveal the disgusting sausage-making of scapegoating
00:37:00 The emphasis on the victim is a modern phenomenon
00:37:42 How does this affect an atheist's worldview?
00:40:27 How did Jesus save the world?
00:41:20 Jesus liberated us from the scapegoat mechanism
00:42:55 Belief vs practice
00:44:27 Big tech censorship
00:45:25 Dr. Lisanti, antibiotics and cancer https://aneighborschoice.com/michael-lisanti-interview-on-his-breakthrough-antibiotic-solution-for-cancer-metastasis-atp/
00:49:00 Christianity is about an arch in history
00:50:00 Jesus and skepticism
00:53:42 Fleischmann–Pons Cold Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
00:56:00 Ancel Keys
00:57:33 CBC René Girard Documentary https://youtu.be/g8Y8dVVV4To
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I talk with Staton Peele about the nature of addiction. Peele believes that addiction is a life problem, not a brain disease. We talk about the ideas that he has been writing about for many years.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Stanton Peele https://peele.net/
00:02:43 Failure is redefined as success in addition science
00:05:05 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/
00:07:33 Most rehab sets a person up for failure
00:09:01 A non-disease approach is more realistic
00:10:11 Harm reduction
00:10:49 The entire addiction field is built on bullshit
00:11:55 What is addiction?
00:13:41 Opioid addiction
00:16:37 Mindfulness
00:17:11 Responsibility in addiction
00:19:19 What does a person gain from addiction?
00:21:57 Brain science BS in addiction
00:22:05 Life needs to come online with their values
00:24:20 Human motivation and experience help a person quit
00:26:23 Dealing with addiction as a disease makes it worse
00:28:52 Freud and secondary gain
00:31:14 My job is to open a window for a person
00:31:46 You have the power to improve yourself
00:31:48 Encouraging a person is the most essential ingredient
00:33:25 Labels hurt a person
00:36:21 Therapeutic State https://amzn.to/36n63KJ
00:36:31 Jeffrey Schaler https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14
00:37:20 Addiction that causes the most deaths
00:42:43 Addiction to alcohol
00:45:08 Living a good life prevents addiction
00:48:04 Labels can be crippling
00:48:57 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/
00:49:23 Peele.net https://peele.net/
00:49:37 Books by Stanton Peele https://amzn.to/3q5p7Va
00:52:35 Stanton's Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lpp-podcast/id1494188367
00:53:03 Stanton's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og
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I talk with Joel Bein about music, writing, creativity, and taking action. Joel is a conductor, author, director of Growth at Crash, and writer of The Daily Job Hunt. He recently released his book, Do It Now.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Joel Bein https://joelbein.com/
00:00:27 Crash https://crash.co/
00:03:13 Unleashing creative power
00:04:58 The Daily Job Hunt https://sparklp.co/6e19a560
00:06:22 Bias for action
00:06:38 Connection between music and creativity
00:09:51 Joel's book, Do It Now https://amzn.to/3q2o5sM
00:10:37 Music vs writing
00:14:09 From blogging to a career in email marketing
00:18:02 Self-directed learning
00:23:35 Getting started at Crash
00:25:22 Pitching crash
00:27:45 What did you do to get a job at Crash?
00:30:10 Is your job exciting to work at?
00:33:05 What is it like to write for 150,000 people per day?
00:34:56 The Daily Job Hunt
00:37:10 How do you manage social media?
00:45:22 Getting started on any project
00:47:04 Why did you write this book?
00:49:06 Derek Sivers https://sive.rs/
00:53:05 Coercion vs Voluntarism
00:55:04 Acting from interest and motivation
00:56:38 How to be more creative
00:57:24 What tools did you use to write this book?
01:00:34 Asking for feedback on the book
01:04:51 Conclusion
01:06:43 Joel's book: Do It Now
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I talk with Dr. Kevin Conners about natural, supplementary, and alternative options for cancer.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Dr. Kevin Conners https://www.connersclinic.com/
00:03:10 Rife and Electromedicine https://amzn.to/3pZwpcM
00:04:25 Frequencies and electromedicine
00:08:25 Immune system and cancer
00:10:25 The Truth About Cancer https://amzn.to/37s8yfB
00:13:30 Frequencies for different types of cancers
00:16:25 Quality of life
00:17:00 Success rate of traditional medicine
00:18:00 Hoxsey Therapy https://amzn.to/3tP2fdC
00:18:15 Side effects of chemotherapy
00:19:45 Pharmacratic state against alternatives https://youtu.be/JuLsL3_eBWw
00:25:10 Robin Feldman https://amzn.to/3pVvpXh
00:25:15 Per Bylund https://youtu.be/sWe3Bv5Durc
00:26:10 Can the body fight off cancer?
00:27:10 Conners Clinic
00:28:45 Testing
00:29:10 Self-care
00:30:40 Success of alternatives
00:32:35 Goal is to stop replication
00:35:45 Combined care
00:37:00 Cancer prevention
00:37:10 Avoid toxins
00:38:30 Detoxification
00:39:00 Plastics
00:40:00 Soy
00:40:20 Hormone driven cancer
00:41:20 Fasting
00:48:40 Ketogenic diet
00:50:50 Supplements
00:54:28 Things to avoid when you have cancer
00:56:45 Chemotherapy
00:59:40 Fasting and chemotherapy
01:03:00 Stay calm do your own research
01:04:00 Spontaneous remission and background rates
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The ideas presented in this book are based on the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and the more contemporary Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). By putting the advice into practice, you will be able to more easily overcome adversity and better control your emotions.
When we experience intense emotions such as anger, depression, or anxiety, we assume that something outside of ourselves caused our feelings. But, according to REBT, it is our underlying beliefs about our circumstances that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel.
According to Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), we make an error when interpreting our emotions. When we experience intense emotions such as anger, depression, or anxiety, we assume that something outside of ourselves caused our feelings. But, according to REBT, it is our underlying beliefs about our circumstances that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel. The therapy presented in this book is based on the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and the more contemporary Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).
By putting the advice into practice, you may be able to get better control of your emotions. By following a simple, common-sense approach to confronting your unwanted beliefs, which influence your emotions, you may begin to get a hold of the underlying cause of your unwanted feelings. At its core, REBT is the idea we make ourselves miserable, most of the time. We are the cause of our unwanted feelings, and we can change our feelings by changing the underlying philosophy behind our feelings.
REBT is based on some of the philosophies of the Stoics, especially Epictetus, who said: ”Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." For Ellis, achieving tranquility of mind was not about changing what was going on in the external world, but rather, changing our underlying philosophy of life. Events themselves don't cause us to be miserable, it is our beliefs about the events that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Opening Credits
00:00:15 Introduction
00:01:17 Who Was Albert Ellis?
00:05:51 A Guide to REBT
00:15:14 Practicing REBT
00:16:51 REBT Self-Help Form
00:18:45 Conclusion
00:19:23 About the Author
00:19:32 Closing Credits
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I talk with Kerry McDonald about her book, Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Kerry McDonald https://fee.org/kerry
00:04:30 Public school vs Homeschool
00:06:20 Harvard
00:10:50 FEE https://fee.org/
00:11:30 Cato https://www.cato.org/
00:12:10 Educational Freedom in America
00:14:15 Compulsory schooling laws
00:16:10 Unschooling
00:19:00 Adult learning vs child learning
00:20:40 Creativity, curiosity, entrepreneurship
00:23:30 Unschooling at Kerry's home
00:25:18 Creating vs consuming
00:27:40 Gender differences
00:29:14 Kids are expected to read earlier and earlier
00:30:27 Individuality in education
00:31:15 Thomas Edison
00:32:35 Study on adults who were unschooled
00:33:25 Left vs Right in homeschooling
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Isaac Morehouse, founder and CEO of Crash, and founder of Praxis talks with me about learning out loud, job hunting, being honest, pitching yourself to get a job, and prioritizing your time.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Isaac Morehouse https://isaacmorehouse.com/
00:00:19 Inner Game of Startups https://canonic.xyz/books/12cy7aGkmg9CxgLXd4WFp6FJWSJHcbZ5NQ/limited
00:01:00 Praxis https://discoverpraxis.com/
00:01:02 Crash https://crash.co/
00:10:25 My pitch to Isaac https://aaronolson.blog/2022/02/23/how-to-pitch-your-way-to-a-new-job/
00:10:50 Mindset shift in the job hunt
00:12:50 Increase your luck surface with a job pitch
00:16:20 Could a bad pitch harm your job search?
00:19:15 Be honest in your job hunt
00:20:15 A good salesperson is empathetic
00:22:40 Posting in the days of COVID
00:26:00 Posting on social media
00:28:25 Homeschooling and learning out loud
00:32:20 Twetch http://twet.ch/inv/stoic
00:34:00 Kids learning out loud
00:36:50 Prioritizing time
00:39:00 Don't do stuff you hate
00:41:00 80/20 Rule
00:42:00 Don't try to be everywhere at once
00:43:40 Tiny payments https://www.nanopay.cash/
00:49:30 Create more than you consume
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I talk with Darren Kalama of the Marcionite Christian Church. We talk about how the Marcionite Church is one of the only Christian churches to come out against the COVID insanity. We also discuss the history of the church and about Marcion of Sinope.
Links:
Church: https://www.marcionitechurch.org/
Marcionite Bible: https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/
Marcionite News Network: https://www.firstbiblenetwork.com/
Marcionite Podcast: https://therightbible.sounder.fm/
Dr. Hugh McTavish argues that the madness of COVID lockdowns caused more harm than good.
Links:
https://covid-sanity.org/
https://www.hughmctavish.com/
https://amzn.to/3mXZm8i
00:00:00.000 Daniel Krawisz https://twitter.com/DanielKrawisz
00:00:51.691 What comes after bitcoin?
00:01:16.117 Get as rich as possible
00:01:25.613 Bitcoin is like building an engine
00:01:45.799 Austrian economics is like thermodynamics
00:03:34.687 The problems of socialism https://mises.org/library/praxeology-knowledge-problem-socialism
00:03:58.870 Money is efficiency
00:04:51.565 Without money we lack cooperation
00:05:25.167 Without money we get central planning
00:06:47.390 What is profit paying for? https://mises.org/library/meaning-competition-0
00:07:11.065 Profit is superior planning https://mises.org/library/profit-and-loss
00:09:18.703 Entrepreneurs are superior planners
00:11:09.064 Knowledge of the future is the most valuable thing
00:14:59.046 Profits are caused by differential knowledge
00:18:21.421 Anti-inductivity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h24JGbmweNpWZfBkM/markets-are-anti-inductive
00:18:36.272 Scientism https://mises.org/library/pretense-knowledge
00:19:21.549 Marx said capitalists are parasites
00:19:55.751 When you get rid of profits, you get rid of planning
00:21:52.723 Is bitcoin a ray of sunshine?
00:22:28.276 Bitcoin is a way of getting wealthy by understanding economics
00:25:27.507 A block is a history of the economy
00:26:01.918 Miners will apply knowledge for profit
00:27:04.582 Will bitcoin become undeniable?
00:27:26.381 Selfish mining
00:28:21.896 What is a selfish miner?
00:34:26.616 Hurdles to bitcoin
00:34:56.619 Bitcoiner's big mistake
00:35:34.527 Entrepreneurship is spending money to make money
00:36:46.917 Make things for other bitcoin entrepreneurs
00:37:31.591 Ignore non-bitcoiners
00:39:23.370 Bitcoin is like Galt's Gulch
00:40:24.840 We need SPV service and programmers
00:41:17.048 We need bitcoin miners https://bitcoinfiles.org/t/0c9544cf8650794d0221a0b11fec45ed19409e6deef9b3eeeea7ee956cdde7af
00:42:44.725 Accountancy
00:43:48.906 Bitcoiners need to be more realistic
00:44:00.109 Chain-analysis
00:44:53.100 Privacy
00:45:52.254 Crowdfunding on the blockchain
00:48:57.106 What happens if you lose your keys
00:50:09.881 Craig Wright getting stolen funds back https://coingeek.com/craig-wright-begins-landmark-legal-action-to-retrieve-stolen-coins/
00:51:15.468 Craig Wright's lawsuit
00:52:34.372 Is there a turning point in bitcoin coming?
00:55:19.705 Up next: time https://mises.org/library/time-and-praxeology
00:00:00.000 Daniel Krawisz https://twitter.com/DanielKrawisz
00:00:51.000 The Night Fox https://twitter.com/lenuitrenard
00:01:52.000 Daniel's favorite BSV token?
00:02:05.000 When will BoostPow be back? https://boostpow.com/
00:03:55.000 Solana https://solana.com/
00:05:00.000 Proof of stake system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake
00:05:35.000 Austrian Economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
00:10:20.000 Litecoin https://litecoin.org/
00:10:50.000 Altcoins
00:11:32.000 Speculative bubble in crypto
00:12:45.000 Synergistic energy in bitcoin
00:13:30.000 Philosophy vs Economics
00:14:11.000 Economics tells us where we are going
00:14:40.000 Daniels Videos https://streamanity.com/cosmosstag@moneybutton.com
00:16:10.000 Skin in the game: Austrian Economics and Bitcoin
00:19:00.000 Bitcoin is the most important thing going on the world right now
00:20:00.000 Craig Wright https://craigwright.net/
00:20:38.000 Craig Wright, Whale Pool https://youtu.be/kp5bOOwF8Yc
00:21:40.000 Jeff Tucker on Altcoins
00:22:28.000 Mises on profit and loss https://mises.org/library/profit-and-loss-0
00:24:25.000 Mises on Socialism https://mises.org/library/socialism-economic-and-sociological-analysis
00:26:42.000 Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Austrian Method https://mises.org/library/economic-science-and-austrian-method
00:29:28.000 Economics tells us if the market is working
00:31:30.000 Barriers to bitcoin
00:33:27.000 Lack of knowledge in bitcoin
00:34:00.000 Peter Schiff on money
00:35:25.000 Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread
00:36:10.000 Would it be better if more economists joined BSV?
00:38:02.000 Bitcoiners should look to each other
00:39:56.000 Daniel's journey into bitcoin and entrepreneurship
00:41:41.000 Daniel did not think bitcoin would work
00:44:20.000 Matterpool https://matterpool.io/
00:47:40.000 Economics is like a navigation system
00:48:20.000 Consumers and bitcoin
00:49:37.000 The need for entrepreneurs in bitcoin
00:51:00.000 We need people who want to earn bitcoin
00:51:25.000 What are the most exciting projects in bitcoin?
00:52:29.000 We need a proof-of-work service
00:53:20.000 Proof-of-work eliminates scammers
00:56:47.000 We need more people who listen carefully
00:58:50.000 What kind of collaborators do you need?
00:59:15.000 We need open-source in bitcoin
01:03:45.000 We need more people who can program
01:05:00.000 How long does it take to learn bitcoin programming
01:07:15.000 Programming is similar to literacy
01:09:15.000 The biggest hurdle in programming is believing you can do it
01:10:55.000 Religion
01:11:44.000 Marginal utility and opportunity costs
01:14:20.000 Marginal utility of money
01:16:49.000 Diamonds vs water paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value
01:19:00.000 Thomas Sowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
01:20:50.000 The world is insane
01:21:30.000 Cathedral as proof-of-work
01:22:45.000 Outro
00:00:00.000 Professor Per Bylund https://perbylund.com/
00:00:36.107 How did you become interested in entrepreneurship?
00:03:08.377 Theory vs practice of entrepreneurship
00:03:26.372 Mises: Human Action https://mises.org/library/human-action-0
00:04:28.346 Will understanding economics help us become better entrepreneurs?
00:04:46.894 Errors entrepreneurs make
00:04:59.100 Production process vs value process
00:08:15.300 Serving yourself by serving others
00:09:14.261 Creativity and imagination
00:09:53.810 Ideas vs implementation
00:09:57.590 Invention vs innovation
00:11:47.666 Value first, cost second
00:15:06.411 Entrepreneurship: Thinking about the economy in the right way
00:15:49.231 What projects get you excited about entrepreneurship?
00:16:11.760 Decentralization of technology
00:17:09.611 Social media
00:20:26.529 Future of content creation
00:21:28.986 Cryptocurrency
00:22:09.028 Ethereum https://ethereum.org/en/
00:22:13.817 Nano https://nano.org/
00:22:31.627 Micropayments
00:23:09.352 What hasn’t crypto had wider adoption?
00:23:33.028 Fiat currency
00:25:00.919 Security vs ease if use in cryptocurrency
00:26:07.982 Barriers to cryptocurrency
00:26:49.228 Responsibility in crypto
00:27:44.403 Over-engineering in crypto
00:28:41.022 Crypto has not become money
00:29:12.480 Intellectual property https://twitter.com/PerBylund/status/1386774810617958403
00:30:24.896 IP distorts the market
00:32:59.205 IP and big pharma
00:33:17.117 Nexium vs Prilosec https://www.healthline.com/health/gerd/nexium-vs-prilosec
00:36:03.192 Big pharma and vitamins
00:37:19.990 IP as monopoly privilege
00:37:35.537 IP is not benefiting the consumer
00:38:05.682 IP fosters inventions instead of innovations
00:39:55.611 IP and cancer drugs
00:41:48.707 IP is based on the assumption that the idea matters
00:42:25.540 Smartphones and IP
00:44:37.947 Copyright and creative works
00:47:03.336 Metallica and IP
00:47:33.959 Ways to make money other than royalties
00:49:33.249 Monopoly privileges coddle creatives
00:51:23.296 Getting rid of IP allows for different business models to flourish
00:53:35.363 Crypto and creative services
00:55:02.043 Where to go to learn more about entrepreneurship?
00:55:29.836 Mises.org https://mises.org/
00:55:52.440 Per Bylund on Twitter https://twitter.com/PerBylund
00:56:48.467 Economics in one lesson https://youtu.be/eyIfEpNfU2U
00:00:00.000 Anthony Stadlen http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/ 00:00:16.899 Anthony's interest in psychotherapy 00:02:24.037 Sartre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_(existentialism) 00:04:23.061 James Joyce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce 00:04:29.562 Freud: Interpretation of Dreams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interpretation_of_Dreams 00:05:21.125 Leonardo Da Vinci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci 00:08:21.490 Existential analyst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy 00:08:27.437 Ronald D. Laing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.D._Laing 00:08:28.518 Aaron Esterson https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/obituary-aaron-esterson-daily-telegraph.html 00:09:46.627 The Divided Self https://amzn.to/3sIePsy 00:09:58.269 Existence Rollo May https://amzn.to/3dIHd9G 00:10:36.515 Ludwig Binswanger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Binswanger 00:10:52.429 Case of Ellen West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_West 00:13:52.286 The Myth of Mental Illness https://amzn.to/3nbmcrf 00:15:05.405 Praxis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis(process) 00:15:07.044 Human Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action 00:16:50.937 Reason and Violence https://amzn.to/3tLjaMD 00:16:57.188 Sanity, Madness and the Family https://amzn.to/3awAnlF 00:17:07.867 David Cooper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cooper_(psychiatrist) 00:19:54.390 Szasz was an intellectual terrorist 00:22:16.654 When did you first meet Szasz? 00:23:46.731 Anthony Clare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Clare 00:26:46.277 Case of Dora and Caterina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_(case_study) 00:29:12.498 A Poor Model for Students: The Case of Thomas Szasz https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/a-poor-model-for-those-in-training.html?m=0 00:30:00.845 Inner Circle Seminars https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/?m=0 00:30:52.644 Szasz Inner Circle Seminar https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/2010/01/inner-circle-seminar-no-73-7-december.html?m=0 00:31:05.942 Thomas Szasz Award https://www.centerforindependentthought.org/szasz 00:32:15.575 Szasz was my best friend 00:33:41.920 Szasz was an out-and-out atheist 00:34:36.363 The Myth of Psychotherapy https://amzn.to/2QnBP2E 00:35:21.212 The cure of souls 00:35:33.326 Carl Jung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung 00:36:50.441 The Question of Lay Analysis https://amzn.to/3tNpbbY 00:38:57.796 Religious leaders as psychotherapists 00:40:03.788 Payment in therapy 00:40:31.500 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis https://existentialstoic.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/autonomous-psychotherapy/ 00:42:13.453 The Myth of Psychotherapy https://amzn.to/2QnBP2E 00:44:02.599 Attending to the soul 00:44:53.205 Did Szasz believe in psychotherapy? 00:45:59.848 Against Therapy https://amzn.to/32StBCB 00:47:13.783 Psychoanalysis under Stalinism 00:50:14.893 Possibility for repentance in psychotherapy 00:51:19.931 Money and psychotherapy 00:52:30.378 Contract in Psychotherapy 00:56:54.184 Worldly care of the soul 00:57:07.553 Secular pastoral counseling 01:03:35.776 Why is it so hard for people to understand Szasz? 01:05:13.137 Involuntary psychiatry and the insanity defense 01:06:48.050 How Szasz came to his thinking on psychiatry 01:10:12.714 Ignaz Semmelweis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis 01:21:49.341 Why I am not a health professional http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/why-existential-psychotherapy-is-not.html 01:30:07.528 The religion of the state https://amzn.to/3nboTZI 01:33:38.296 Will Szasz's ideas ever become mainstream? 01:34:50.283 Szasz said psychotherapy was finished in the US 01:36:31.687 How did Szasz remain so prolific? 01:39:42.916 Szasz's suicide https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/thomas-szasz-obituary-anthony-stadlen.html?m=0 01:41:49.343 What is your most fond memory of Szasz? 01:44:22.120 Szasz and the meaning of life
00:00:00.000 Daniel Krawisz https://twitter.com/danielkrawisz
00:00:51.045 People don't know the bottom line in bitcoin
00:01:59.657 The nature of success in bitcoin
00:02:38.457 Understanding economics is understanding success
00:03:54.667 Theory vs practice of success
00:04:34.721 Can we understand success by thinking about it?
00:05:33.429 Tradeoffs
00:07:59.852 Economics lets us look at trade-offs in an abstract way
00:08:11.536 Virtue ethics and economics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/
00:09:24.508 Courage and bitcoin
00:10:36.808 Austrian economics professors lack courage
00:13:14.829 Peter Schiff doesn't understand money https://twitter.com/peterschiff
00:13:22.680 Austrians only think of money as gold
00:14:03.690 What does success mean in bitcoin?
00:14:58.492 How does an entrepreneur join the bitcoin economy
00:16:43.746 Price versus value https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2018/01/04/the-important-differences-between-price-and-value/amp/
00:19:42.183 Value is what ultimately happens
00:25:58.918 When you invest in Bitcoin you get access to future entrepreneurs
00:26:39.453 Marginal utility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility
00:28:17.484 Diamonds versus water paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value
00:30:57.532 Unique insights about marginal utility and Austrian economics
00:33:24.543 Readability of the Austrian school of economics
00:33:37.982 Mises https://youtu.be/QwqnRYPcrl0
00:33:39.507 Hayek https://youtu.be/GTQnarzmTOc
00:33:54.910 Is economics a science?
00:34:46.057 Karl popper https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
00:35:28.934 People make choices that maximize their own benefit
00:39:25.162 Maximize benefit versus achieve girls
00:41:15.368 Thomas Szasz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz
00:45:27.511 BTC price vs value
00:49:22.548 Subjectivity of various coins
00:50:07.547 Subjective enjoyment of BTC
00:51:24.213 Consumer good versus higher order good
00:55:59.926 Does the Austrian school use circular reasoning?
00:59:28.595 Form next time: profits and the entrepreneur
00:59:40.327 Socialist calculation problem
00:00:00 Intro https://twitter.com/DanielKrawisz
00:00:07 Daniel's Bitcoin Videos on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC43D9FHfQc4uj7HZAhX97Rg
00:00:10 Interview with Daniel https://tpow.app/2f93054c
00:00:30 What is money?
00:01:01 Austrian School of Economics https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/austrian-school-of-economics.asp
00:05:07 Money is cooperation
00:10:18 BTC vs Bitcoin SV https://thatsbtcnotbitcoin.com/
00:13:09 Socialist calculation problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
00:15:51 Domesticated animals
00:17:12 Bitcoin opens the internet
00:18:15 Central bankers
00:20:02 Bitcoin vs Gold
00:25:59 How vulnerable is BitcoinSV to attacks?
00:27:38 Consensus mechanism in BSV
00:28:46 Satoshi Nakamoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
00:34:25 Proof of work can end mass scams
00:38:26 Biological handicaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle
00:47:05 Twetch https://twetch.app/
00:49:14 Cheap talk on Twetch
00:50:56 Energy is the fundamental cost of the universe
00:51:38 Spending money is not provable waste
00:52:19 Spent energy is the signal of a rational actor
00:53:03 Christianity and proof of work
00:54:36 Sacrifices as costly signals
00:57:36 Bitcoin is a religion without the divine
00:59:46 Proof of work ending mass scams
01:08:41 Boostpow https://boostpow.com/
01:11:16 What can entrepreneurs do to help bitcoin?
01:17:10 Daniel's videos on Streamanity https://streamanity.com/cosmosstag@moneybutton.com
01:17:45 Bitcoin at scale video https://streamanity.com/video/3whTuRZ3oS2qUG
01:18:36 Homo Bicoinus https://streamanity.com/video/3KN9cDyTN6eox6
01:20:07 Narratives vs proof of work
01:22:06 The obvious advantage of BSV
01:26:56 Libertarians and bitcoin
01:34:17 Peter Schiff and bitcoin
01:34:36 Jeff Tucker and bitcoin https://www.aier.org/article/why-does-bitcoin-have-value/
01:35:05 The calculation problem of socialism https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth
01:38:40 Not enough people understand money
01:46:41 Do entrepreneurs understand bitcoin?
01:51:24 Think about how to serve others in bitcoin
01:54:48 Less talk more doing
The philosopher Seneca the Younger (4 BC-AD 65), or simply know as Seneca, was one of the wisest and wittiest philosophers of all time. He looks at the shortness of life and encourages us to live with vitality. He prompts us to examine our soul. He invites us to laugh at ourselves rather than cry. Listen or read these selected quotes to improve your life. Gain wisdom from a man who has helped many people live better throughout the ages. These 99 quotes have been selected from Seneca's wisest sayings as meditations to live your life by.
Thomas Szasz presents his views on why libertarians should care more about psychiatric practices. Shows why psychiatric practices are a direct assault against the libertarian principle of non-aggression. Szasz argues that you have a civil right to believe crazy things. Towards the end of the video, he takes questions from the audience which help clarify his views.
Originally posted at https://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/libertarian-principles-psychiatric-practices-are-they-compatible
I talk with Scott Perry, author of The Stoic Creative. We talk about how to use Stoicism to create a rich life of tranquility, creativity, and satisfaction.
I talk with Jeffery Schaler about his new book, Thomas Szasz: The Man and His Ideas (http://amzn.to/2wvEHyO).
Thomas Szasz was an iconoclastic psychiatrist who did not believe in the concept of mental illness. He saw emotional distress as, "problems of living". We talk about Szasz and what he meant when he wrote that he did not believe in "mental illness".
