Arjun Khemani Podcast: Recent Episodes
Arjun Khemani
Karl Pfleger is the founder of agingbiotech.info and an investor in several rejuvenation startups.
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0:00 - Why lifespan is the wrong metric for aging progress
7:28 - Is the hallmarks of aging expanding a problem?
11:36 - Structures vs. processes: the key distinction in aging targets
16:14 - Why Karl favors divide-and-conquer rejuvenation over slowing aging
22:07 - Whole-body replacement and organ/cell-level rejuvenation
26:56 - Is partial epigenetic reprogramming the kill-shot for aging?
35:24 - CMLase and reversing crosslink damage
40:57 - Can AI just solve aging automatically?
46:57 - Funding misallocation and the case for more aging biotech companies/VC
57:28 - Objections to eliminating aging — and why none hold up
1:01:27 - Karl critiques Bryan Johnson’s “Don’t Die”
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David D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist. He is the author of The Machinery of Freedom, Future Imperfect, and several other books.
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0:00 – The economics of longevity
8:05 – Epigenetic reprogramming
12:37 – Overpopulation and the “ultimate resource”
16:33 – Fluid vs. crystallized intelligence, aging and political power
20:46 – Cryonics
24:35 – AI, open source, and the surveillance state
28:29 – Zcash, privacy, and cryptocurrency
41:12 – Taxes, government, and money supply
50:27 – A poem about tyranny and benevolence
56:42 – Education and its resistance to change
1:05:42 – Argentina, Milei, and planning for an uncertain future
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Sean Bowe is a core cryptographer and engineer who played a major role in building Zcash’s technology.
Dev Ojha, also a cryptographer, is the founder of Osmosis. He is now working on helping Zcash scale and go post quantum.
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0:00 - Why Dev’s working on Zcash
12:24 - AI is surveillance’s ultimate weapon
13:33 - Encrypted money must scale
15:49 - Compliant “privacy” is an oxymoron
19:25 - PIR for scaling Zcash
36:35 - How Tachyon and PIR work hand in hand
43:47 - Quantum recoverability
47:18 - Is quantum the last cryptography problem?
51:41 - Easier coinholder voting process
1:03:15 - Zcash roadmap
1:17:34 - What Zcash looks like at scale
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Sean Bowe and Jack Grigg aka str4d are both cryptographic engineers working on the Zcash protocol. Sean’s latest project is Tachyon, intended to bring encrypted money into the hands of 8 billion people.
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0:00 - Project Tachyon
10:20 - Privacy can’t be an afterthought for a protocol
15:24 - Encrypted Bitcoin
22:11 - Soundness bug in original sprout pool
30:15 - Sapling
33:00 - A decade of progress
39:04 - Zcash’s anonymity set
51:29 - Using private money as a passthrough doesn’t work
56:04 - The importance of ledger indistinguishability
58:30 - The ultimate privacy stack
1:05:58 - Tachyon removes all cryptographic bottlenecks of encrypted money
1:08:16 - What’s next after Tachyon?
1:15:25 - Weightless blockchains?
1:18:24 - Ragu
1:19:44 - What the next 12 months look like for Jack and Sean
1:31:22 - “Everything worth doing is worth doing on ambitious timelines.” — Sean
1:32:16 - Sean’s advice for young engineers
1:34:18 - What got Sean and Jack into Zcash?
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My conversation with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis. He chairs the editorial board of Palladium Magazine.
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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Live players
5:41 - Great Founder Theory
11:20 - Our material technology rests on our social interactions
14:23 - Optimism, pessimism, and human agency
23:21 - Operationalized knowledge
25:22 - Lost and dead traditions of knowledge
27:34 - Tradition of criticism
29:36 - The most important piece of knowledge to preserve
32:27 - Common features of declining societies
39:18 - Are the Spartan warriors overrated and just had very good PR?
42:07 - DOGE and bureaucracy in America
45:28 - The machinery of freedom
47:43 - Tech Samo is most excited about over the next 5 years
50:10 - Curtis Yarvin and the orbital authority
55:01 - Samo’s advice for young people
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My conversation with Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart on unstoppable private money.
Zooko Wilcox is a legendary cypherpunk and one of the founders of Zcash—private, digital money.
Josh Swihart is the CEO of Electric Coin Company, the team behind the Zcash protocol and the Zashi wallet app.
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0:00 - Maya Protocol integrates with Zcash
3:52 - Coinbase social engineering attack
7:43 - Private money negates capital controls
14:13 - Privacy comes from money at rest
18:24 - The Zashi effect and future roadmap
25:11 - Project Tachyon
39:10 - Zcash’s anonymity set doesn’t depend on the number of its users
45:37 - Turnstiles in Zcash and the 2018 inflation bug
57:28 - “ZK” has become a marketing stunt among crypto projects
59:48 - On Binance delisting ZEC
1:01:35 - A transition toward using crypto as it was originally intended
1:04:52 - Should exchanges use transparent addresses?
1:17:38 - Coin holder voting in Zcash
1:23:38 - Sci-fi influence
1:28:37 - Gary Gensler
1:29:40 - Why I like Zcash
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My conversation with Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries.
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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Why Mach needs to exist
3:16 - Early experiments
5:07 - Dropping out of MIT
8:36 - Raising $85 million at 19 years old
11:20 - Decentralized vertical supply chains
13:54 - The most important domain of the next century
15:55 - Betting on hydrogen
18:11 - Overview of Viper and Glide
21:06 - Building feedback loops across teams
25:29 - Facing regulatory hurdles
28:19 - Knowing when to be risk tolerant
29:54 - Time until China invades Taiwan
31:45 - The future of warfare
42:29 - Takeaways from the (unmanned) war in Ukraine
48:23 - Biggest influences on Ethan’s life
49:37 - Mach’s long-term plan
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My conversation with philosopher and author Peter Boghossian.
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0:00 - The enlightenment
5:51 - The dangers of moral relativism
21:28 - Modern education is failing us
31:14 - What’s worth preserving in the West
37:00 - Is wokeism filling the void left by atheism?
38:04 - The spread of Islamism
45:49 - Speech is not violence
49:11 - Derangements of science
52:48 - The myth of the framework
56:34 - Why you should learn epistemology
58:05 - The instinct to belong trumps what’s true
1:02:44 - Chasing likes versus pursuing truth
1:05:08 - What is Peter most optimistic and most pessimistic about
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My conversation with Zooko, Nate Wilcox, and Sean Bowe about the Zcash protocol.
Zooko is a cypherpunk who co-founded Zcash along with his brother, Nate Wilcox, and others. Sean Bowe is a cryptographer and engineer who has played a crucial role in the development of Zcash and has made significant contributions to advancements in zero-knowledge proofs, particularly zk-SNARKs, which underpin Zcash’s privacy features.
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0:00 - Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn
0:04 - Writing the first blog post on Bitcoin ever
6:21 - Bitcoin’s fundamental privacy flaw
9:40 - Unstoppable private money
12:19 - Will Zcash compete with Bitcoin as a store of value?
14:24 - How many people are using Zcash?
16:18 - Good security is good usability
20:10 - Social credit systems and ubiquitous surveillance
23:43 - Why Monero’s privacy tech can’t work
35:21 - Integrating ZKPs into other blockchains
39:51 - Privacy comes from money at rest, not from money in flight
47:42 - Why did the price of ZEC fall so drastically in the beginning?
51:49 - Zcash stablecoins?
55:50 - Quantum threats to Zcash
1:02:50 - Encrypted love notes in the blockchain'
1:07:07 - Privacy enabled cultural trends
1:12:43 - Nate Wilcox
1:14:38 - Why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?
1:16:16 - A brief history of Zcash
1:22:42 - Why does Zcash have opt-in privacy?
1:26:55 - Does Zcash still rely on a trusted setup?
1:30:49 - Upgrading the Zcash protocol to Hybrid PoW/PoS
1:40:50 - A bug that almost killed Zcash
1:52:40 - Zcash’s funding model
2:09:09 - Why can’t privacy be added as an L2?
2:14:35 - Scaling Zcash and making it more interoperable
2:23:16 - Shielded Labs
2:24:39 - Nate’s vision for Zcash
2:27:53 - Sean Bowe
2:32:53 - Censorship resistance is a spectrum
2:35:26 - Will privacy coins be banned?
2:37:49 - Privacy and scalability
2:41:47 - Programmable money
2:43:31 - Summary of Sean’s contributions to the field of cryptography
2:55:17 - Zcash might get privacy against quantum adversaries for free
3:00:14 - Halo
3:05:34 - What Sean’s working on right now
3:11:54 - What has influenced Sean’s thinking in cryptography the most?
3:13:36 - Being a high school dropout working in crypto
3:15:08 - Zcash is just getting started
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My conversation with Naval Ravikant. Enjoy!
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Timestamps
0:00 - The Theory of Everything
4:48 - How do you know what’s true?
7:51 - Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth
13:07 - We have never run out of a single resource
15:25 - Are we destroying the Earth?
17:48 - Marxism denies wealth creation
21:28 - Regulation kills innovation
27:05 - Degrowth and the fall of Western universities
33:31 - Why the West is best
35:47 - Federalism
38:10 - Everyone wants to live forever
41:44 - Humans are universal explainers
43:25 - Collectivism vs. individualism
50:44 - You cannot explain the universe without explaining humans
55:02 - How David Deutsch’s ideas have changed Naval’s life
1:02:31 - The scientific method isn’t possible
1:05:07 - The low-hanging fruit theory is a bad explanation
1:08:19 - The biggest threats to Western civilization
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I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Deutsch in his lovely garden in Oxford a few months ago. Here’s our conversation.
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1:01 - A tragic view of human history
7:04 - Why did it take so long for civilization to arise?
13:31 - Fallibilism
21:32 - Cultural relativism denies improvement
24:03 - Richard Dawkins and indigenous ways of knowing
26:49 - Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
31:38 - The era of man
37:55 - People are unlike any other force of nature
42:51 - The dangers of regulating AI
48:09 - Are we running out of resources?
54:21 - Everything in existing educational theory is wrong
1:11:30 - When David met Richard Feynman
1:17:33 - Everyone is a Popperian
1:20:16 - Only progress is sustainable
1:26:00 - The biggest threat to Western civilization
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Julian Barbour is a renowned physicist known for his groundbreaking work on the nature of time. In his influential books, The End of Time and The Janus Point he explores the concept of a timeless universe, challenging traditional views.
Samuel Kuypers is a theoretical physicist, currently located in Montréal, who is interested in the foundations of quantum theory and time.
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Timestamps
1:10 - The instant is not in time, time is in the instant
6:27 - Time capsules and evidence of time passing
9:22 - Newton’s view of absolute time and space
18:46 - Shape dynamics
24:33 - Mathematics of variety
37:51 - Newton’s theory as a theory of creation
56:23 - How shape dynamics relates to general relativity
1:06:50 - Entropy and heat death of the universe
1:28:13 - Free will and determinism
1:33:22 - Carpe diem
1:34:13 - Julian’s interest in Shakespeare
1:40:54 - Question from David Deutsch about quantum theory
1:48:56 - Question from Brett Hall about general relativity and QT
1:51:51 - Final remarks
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Nat Eliason is a writer and crypto insider with a wildly popular newsletter and podcast. He is the author of the book Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance.
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0:49 - Ayn Rand
6:40 - The transition from writing online to writing a book
12:26 - Marketing Crypto Confidential
16:43 - Writing for the modern world
21:20 - Come for the money, stay for the tech
26:49 - Decentralized social media
30:19 - Don’t be someone’s exit liquidity!
34:39 - The value of authenticity
36:39 - The advantages of being pseudonymous
39:19 - Constraints can help us be creative
42:53 - Is note-taking valuable?
46:02 - The future of work
50:11 - Strava for writing
53:49 - What idea sounds crazy today but will be mainstream in 5-10 years?
1:01:00 - Why Nat doesn’t use shampoo and other conventional health products
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Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.
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Timestamps
0:50 - How Johan changed his mind about human progress
3:50 - Pro-human flourishing cannot be anti-environment
5:33 - Alternative words to describe capitalism
8:30 - Why is there so much economic illiteracy?
12:36 - Despise poverty, not wealth or inequality
16:41 - We are taxing what we want more of
18:46 - Degrowth and the fall of western education
25:21 - The concept of “needs” is often abused
29:27 - How to have infinite growth on a finite planet
33:08 - Elon Musk
34:43 - Javier Milei and Argentina
39:34 - Privatizing law and justice systems
43:52 - Child labor
49:52 - Advice for young people
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Riva Tez is a philosopher, writer, and venture capitalist. She’s the author of the blog Hard to Write.
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Timestamps
0:52 - Does crypto make anarcho-capitalism pragmatic?
11:56 - Crypto is both technologically and morally superior
20:08 - Ayn Rand’s ideal world
26:00 - Children are humans in their purest form
30:03 - Having integrity in your beliefs
33:17 - Creating a TV show of Atlas Shrugged
36:33 - COVID radicalized a lot of people
41:48 - Riva’s toy store and philosophy class for kids
44:37 - Epistemological anarchism
46:49 - Objective beauty
50:57 - AI, AGI, and AI safety
57:25 - Distractions in the longevity movement
1:04:30 - Why care about longevity (and hate the state)
1:08:07 - Riva’s childhood
1:12:42 - There is more opportunity out there than anyone wants you to believe
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Nicole Behnam is a founder and journalist. She is the creator of Beyond The Interview where she’s interviewed people like Chris Voss, Konstantin Kisin, and Robert Greene.
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0:00 - Nicole’s relationship with her parents and books
4:45 - On being a red carpet host
9:57 - Clubhouse
14:34 - How Naval spoke at one of Nicole’s events
18:03 - Leverage social media
19:45 - NFTs
26:32 - Cults, communities, and influencing people
30:51 - Ray Peat
34:36 - What would your Oscar’s speech be?
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Niklas Anzinger is the founder of Infinita VC and Vitalia. He is also the host of the Podcast.
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0:32 - Building Vitalia and Infinita VC
6:05 - The parallels between longevity and crypto
17:35 - How to convince people that living longer is a worthy goal
22:54 - Network societies
30:35 - Curating your early community
35:22 - The benefits of making organ trade legal
39:23 - Master of Business Creation
43:46 - The madness of air travel regulation
48:51 - Privatizing the base layer of society + closing remarks
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Ashley St. Clair is the Operations Manager at Babylon Bee and author of the children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds. This interview was recorded on Airchat.
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0:19 - The immigration crisis in the US
11:08 - DEI and Mark Cuban
14:29 - Anti-humanism and Gen Z
18:17 - The rise of Christian nationalism
22:32 - Elon freeing the bird
27:47 - What the birth control pill represents
33:07 - Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom
35:16 - Should you go to college?
38:37 - Elephants Are Not Birds
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Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It.
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0:49 - Why Matthew wrote Fiat Food
5:29 - Restructuring the American diet after the gold standard
11:25 - The Seventh-day Adventist Church
16:09 - The word “science” has become a shield against criticism
18:19 - On eating everything in moderation
21:04 - The CPI significantly downplays the effect of inflation
25:53 - The benefits of eating sound good
28:54 - How could a transition to the Bitcoin standard look like?
32:50 - Freedom and raising free children
36:21 - Advice for starting the carnivore diet and closing remarks
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Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200 people in the world to receive Follistatin gene therapy.
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0:39 - Biohacking for 25 years
7:23 - Follistatin gene therapy
11:15 - Farbood’s protocol and results after taking follistatin
15:38 - The FDA’s job is not to keep you alive and healthy
20:58 - Próspera and other startup cities
24:13 - Effective accelerationism
29:27 - On living forever
33:40 - The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m an effective altruist and I’m here to help”
44:40 - Action is always selfish
50:53 - Tips for the average person to get started with biohacking
57:00 - The importance of mobility and flexibility
1:02:14 - Steve Jobs and following your heart
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Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper. He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years.
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Timestamps
0:00 - The commonalities (and differences) between Austrian economics and Popperian epistemology
14:34 - Young Popper’s socialism
25:35 - The sociology of philosophy
29:20 - Two different aspects to Popper’s approach to teaching
36:11 - The situation at the Institute for Humane Studies at GMU
45:45 - Popper’s personality, work ethic, and other interests
52:11 - Against the self-expressionist theory of art
56:24 - Why the ideas of Popper and Hayek aren’t mainstream
1:10:03 - Anarcho-capitalism
1:23:02 - Closing remarks
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David Deutsch is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information, and constructor theory. He is known as the father of quantum computing for his contributions to the field. He is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously, a new, non-paternalistic view of children.
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0:22 - Happiness is a state of continually solving one’s problems
4:54 - Both free-will and the self exist
12:06 - The principle of optimism
17:28 - Any ultimate explanation is a bad explanation
20:22 - The origins of Taking Children Seriously
25:33 - Why children are the most coerced members in society
31:33 - Anarcho-capitalism
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Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is currently Director of Communications at Biostasis Technologies. Max wrote the first definition of “Transhumanism” in its modern sense.
TIMESTAMPS
0:45 - Why Max changed his last name to “More”
2:45 - Max’s early life and interest in cryonics and life extension
8:00 - Extropian philosophy and Transhumanism
9:15 - Cryonics explained
26:06 - Hardest challenges in achieving indefinite lifespan
33:16 - Humans don’t like uncertainty
35:55 - We need more progress in AI
39:05 - Climate change is massively exaggerated
46:24 - Pancritical Rationalism and Karl Popper
52:21 - Proactionary principle
56:58 - Max’s book on cryonics and final remarks
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Tom Hyde is a geologist with degrees in geoscience and natural hazards. In addition to his academic background, Tom has a keen interest in the scientific and philosophical works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch, as well as in libertarianism, climate and risk, gender theory, aesthetics, anti-aging, and pro-natalism, among other topics.
TIMESTAMPS
0:39 - Why a larger population is good for the world
11:18 - The morality of immortality
25:11 - Anarchism and why wealth inequality may be good for the poor
38:01 - Degrowth is disastrous
49:05 - Animal consciousness
56:31 - The infinite gender theory
1:07:40 - Final remarks and recommendations
EPISODE LINKS
Tom’s Substack: http://tomhyde.substack.com
Tom’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomhyde_
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Arjun’s newsletter: https://arjunkhemani.substack.com
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Per Bylund is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. His latest book, How to Think about the Economy: A Primer, serves as an introduction to economic reasoning and aims to improve economic literacy.
TIMESTAMPS
0:04 - Why economic illiteracy is so prevalent
5:25 - Individualists trying to spread their ideas in a collectivist manner
9:25 - The role of the entrepreneur
12:27 - The primacy of theory in the social sciences
25:07 - The irrationality of “social entrepreneurship”
32:17 - Cospaia
34:52 - Javier Milei
39:13 - The greatest economic fallacy
41:50 - The effects of taxes
43:55 - What advice would Per give his 17 year old self?
45:35 - Could we have cured cancer in the 60s?
49:49 - Final remarks
EPISODE LINKS
Per’s Twitter: x.com/perbylund
Download Per’s latest book for free here: mises.org/primer
Arjun’s Twitter: x.com/arjunkhemani
Arjun’s newsletter: arjunkhemani.substack.com
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David D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist, author of ‘The Machinery of Freedom’, and son of Milton Friedman.
TIMESTAMPS
0:44 - 50 years of The Machinery of Freedom
3:35 - What is a government?
9:22 - How law could be produced and enforced in an anarcho-capitalist society
12:00 - Laws produced by the market will be biased toward freedom
14:27 - Is David an anarchist for pragmatic or ethical reasons?
15:41 - Strategy
18:19 - Governments evolving into private firms and science-fiction
25:43 - India, capitalism, and the West
32:51 - The rights of youth, education, and the State
LINKS
David’s website: daviddfriedman.com
David’s Substack: daviddfriedman.substack.com
Arjun’s Twitter: x.com/arjunkhemani
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Jim O’Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. He also serves as the executive chair of the board of directors at Stability AI and is the host of the Infinite Loops podcast.
TIMESTAMPS
0:27 - The future of AI and Jim’s investment in Stability AI
4:51 - The Beginning of Infinity and the ideas of David Deutsch
12:32 - The perils of labeling things and the illusion of certainty
17:35 - Thinking probabilistically vs. deterministically
23:14 - The education system and Synthesis School
29:38 - $100,000 OSV fellowships
35:43 - The Great Reshuffle and the movie industry
51:09 - We have more natural resources today than we did in the past
56:46 - Does Jim want to live forever?
1:02:08 - Final remarks
JIM’S LINKS
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/jposhaughnessy
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O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC: https://www.osv.llc
ARJUN'S LINKS
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
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Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani
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Logan Chipkin is a writer. You can read his recently published fantasy novel, Windfall (for free) here. Follow Logan on Twitter @ChipkinLogan and on Airchat @logan.
TIMESTAMPS
0:33 - A brief history of Austrian economics
9:15 - Is economics a science?
14:12 - How to think about the state
21:05 - The problem with welfare statism
30:05 - Constructor Theory and Austrian economics
33:12 - Economic creationism
41:20 - Consumerism: does capitalism rob us of meaning from our lives?
52:14 - Fiat, sound, hard, and easy monies
55:49 - The history of money: the fall of Rome
1:01:47 - Attributes of a sound money
1:05:59 - History of money: the Renaissance
1:12:06 - History of fiat money: the gold standard
1:15:17 - History of fiat money: World War I
1:18:48 - History of fiat money Post World War II
1:23:13 - Market feedback as criticism
1:32:56 - Bitcoin
1:52:51 - Constructor Theory
2:04:07 - Recommended reading and final remarks
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Yaron Brook is an objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. He’s also the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:30 - What makes humans different
3:50 - Christian atheists
8:05 - Inequality good?
12:25 - AGI Doomerism
21:46 - Aliens
23:37 - Bad philosophy in popular movies
26:29 - The education system
28:37 - Epistemology and The Beginning of Infinity
40:58 - Advice for young people
YARON'S LINKS
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/yaronbrook
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yaronbrook
ARJUN'S LINKS
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
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Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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Lulie Tanett is a writer and expositor of ideas of applied critical rationalism.
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We talk about:
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Lulie’s untypical childhood and the parenting philosophy she was raised under
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What psychology and the social sciences can learn from epistemology
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Mindfulness tied to Critical Rationalism
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The constraints of creativity
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And much more!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Lulie’s childhood and Taking Children Seriously
9:30 - Why social science isn’t science
11:35 - Evolutionary psychology
14:15 - Foundations of psychology: not neurology, but epistemology
15:35 - Meme theory
17:39 - What’s needed for consciousness?
19:54 - AGI
21:14 - Criticism Scheduling and Privacy
29:35 - Tying mindfulness and meditation to Critical Rationalism
45:05 - Constraints help creativity
50:27 - Non-coercive schools
52:53 - Critical Rationalism community + recommendations by Lulie
MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
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The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
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Episode 10 of Do Explain with David Deutsch on The Primacy of Ideas
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Lulie’s recent appearance on the Do Explain podcast [The Chapman Series, Pt.5]
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David Deutsch on the ‘Fun Criterion’ with Lulie Tanett
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Increments podcast
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Lulie’s post on Alexander Technique
LULIE’S LINKS
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Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reasonisfun
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Website: https://www.lulie.co.uk/
ARJUN’S LINKS
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
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Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani
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Nat and Martha are filmmakers. In February 2023, they won a fellowship through O’Shaughnessy Ventures to explore alternative education.
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TIMESTAMPS0:00 - Preview and intro1:16 - Nat and Martha’s background (making movies)6:20 - Living on the road in an RV for a whole year11:47 - “you can just do stuff”15:30 - Winning $100,000 fellowship through O'Shaughnessey Ventures22:36 - Education, homeschooling/unschooling, “follow the fear”, gaps in knowledge, socialization, authority, Taking Children Seriously57:11 - Winning the social media game
NAT & MARTHA'S LINKS Website: https://natandmartha.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@natandmarthaTwitter: https://twitter.com/natandmartha
ARJUN’S LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemaniBlog: https://arjunkhemani.comBuy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani
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Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com
TIMESTAMPS0:24 - The nature of knowledge1:01- Constraints of progress6:31 - The finite speed of light is not a problem13:36 - “Any system that doesn’t get its feedback from free markets or nature eventually gets corrupted.” — Naval19:54 - Knowledge creation leads to wealth creation25:44 - Free will
RELEVANT LINKSNaval on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/navalBrett on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/bretthallKeith on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/welivetoserveArjun on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/arjunKnowledge | Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/arjun/knowledge
Arjun’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
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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.
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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 not good for you and the world
12:24 - Love is selfish
17:12 - Are soldiers sacrificial?
19:15 - The Fountainhead
23:33 - Communicating counter-culture ideas
33:58 - Epistemology
47:25 - Wealth, progress and happiness
1:01:52 - Closing remarks
DON’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/donswriting
Website: https://www.donswriting.com
ARJUN’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani
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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
8:22 - Danny’s entire process of creating a podcast
22:25 - Seeing no results
22:09 - Twitter is invaluable
26:51 - You gotta go where the people are
35:10 - On podcasting and the future
41:10 - Books and podcasts Danny likes
46:53 - Gary Vaynerchuck and optimism
52:18 - People Danny admires and closing remarks
DANNY’S LINKS
Podcast: https://linktr.ee/heydannymiranda
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda
ARJUN’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani
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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 - Insincere questions
36:40 - Freedom
JAMES’ LINKS
Website: james-pierce.com
Twitter: twitter.com/jimmpierce
ARJUN’S LINKS
Twitter: twitter.com/arjunkhemani
Blog: arjunkhemani.com
Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani
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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 would go about writing on the Internet if he were a 15 year old today
16:30 - The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to education and “the paradox of abundance”
22:57 - Arjun’s current school experience
28:25 - The tragedy of school killing curiosity
31:26 - A novel and important idea that David wants to write more about
36:29 - How to write a book
39:10 - “Is ChatGPT a part of your writing routine?”
DAVID’S LINKS
Website: perell.com
Twitter: twitter.com/david_perell
Write of Passage Liftoff: liftoff.school
ARJUN’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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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!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Andrew’s backstory // his entrepreneurial childhood
4:50 - How Andrew became financially free at 22 // being a permission-less apprentice
9:15 - The shortcut to writing good Cold DMs
12:18 - What Andrew invests in
13:24 - Understanding is the purest form of power // Andrew’s big goals
15:42 - Money can be boiled down to solving people’s problems
19:15 - Say yes to everything at first, then say no // how to prioritize
22:30 - BOOKS!
30:45 - Creating for yourself vs. creating for others
34:37 - Happiness and the meaning of life
ANDREW’S LINKS
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewKirbys
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IAmAndrewKirby
ARJUN’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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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 theory and its implications.
We talk about Chiara’s lovely childhood that led to her developing an interest in fundamental physics, people being a force of nature, knowledge, instrumentalism, reductionism, information having physical properties, updates on constructor theory, productive constraints and more!
TIMESTAMPS
1:40 - Chiara’s childhood and why she came to do what she does today
11:44 - Man, a force in nature & what makes knowledge resilient
21:45 - In an information-less universe / why information and knowledge are physical (not abstract) entities
26:00 - Explanatory and non-explanatory knowledge
28:45 - How constructor theory has been received by the physics community so far
33:28 - Bad philosophy / instrumentalism and reductionism
45:17 - Constraints are good!
51:50 - Why Chiara isn’t on Twitter + closing remarks
LINKS
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https://constructortheory.org
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https://www.chiaramarletto.com
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ARJUN’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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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)
6:17 - Most intellectual heroes are dead. Ours isn’t.
11:55 - Deep ideas can take a while to penetrate (plus isn’t “being a Deutschian” ironic?)
18:33 - Things David Deutsch changed Charlie’s mind about (plus “your problem is the biggest problem in the world”)
24:50 - Linking meditation and epistemology, and Mars
38:25 - Barriers to creativity and productive constraints
48:25 - The meaning of life
CHARLIE’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hermesofreason
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDCrUxqE3ThHrmLYsuM9fLQ
ARJUN’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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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 Spotify
TIMESTAMPS
0:49 - Michael’s vision for education
5:03 - Ivan Illich’s book Deschooling Society
8:00 - How to eliminate the need for credentialing
11:55 - Adding something to the education system won’t help
14:52 - Non-coercive boundaries for children
17:58- The Socratic method of questioning
27:08 - Gamifying learning
29:32 - Reading + the difference between teaching and learning
34:50 - How to scale alternative education so that it becomes the norm? + closing remarks
MICHAEL’S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/flowidealism
The Socratic Experience: https://socraticexperience.com
ARJUN'S LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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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 nothing about progress is linear…”
9:56 - Why bother making any progress in the first place?
16:18 - Understanding and “obeying” laws of nature
18:01 - Does progress make us happy? Are we on an intergenerational hedonic treadmill?
27:52 - Optimism and solutionism
35:15 - What’s your message for people living a thousand years from now?
JASON’S LINKS:
The Roots of Progress: https://rootsofprogress.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford
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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 space
8:55 - School does serve a function in society
12:15 - Structure without coercion is good for creativity
17:11 - Moonrise: a co-learning space for kids
24:08 - Why the Internet didn’t really revolutionize the education system
29:41 - Do you learn by immersion?
31:47 - Bad explanations about learning
33:59 - Should we revolutionize the education system or make changes incrementally?
38:55 - Problem of people being “uneducated” and on credentials and proof of work
47:35 - Taking Children Seriously and closing remarks
Chris’ links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_cturner
Moonrise website: https://www.moonrise.com/
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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 localized / every idea is open to criticism
29:31 - How you do one thing is how you do everything
30:20 - What “home” means to a digital nomad / I’m a citizen of the world
39:21 - Next steps for Jay
44:00 - Biggest mentors in Jay’s life + books / closing remarks
In this podcast I speak with Jay Topp.
He’s like one of the coolest people I’ve ever met.
Jay is 22 years old from the Gold Coast, Australia.
He’s a Digital Nomad who’s stepped foot in 57 countries. He calls himself a “citizen of the world”.
He dropped out of school when he was 16 at a time when he started earning more than his teachers while helping his family scale their business.
His agency, Lion Social helps scale businesses from ideation to seven figures and has had a couple of great success stories.
He’s an excellent musician.
He’s been working on a documentary on “Digital Nomads living in the Arctic circle” which releases later this year.
His mission is to play a meaningful role in the revolution of education.
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT
We talk about the flaws in the education system and how Jay escaped it.
Jay shares the most profound thing he learned upon traveling to 57 countries.
We explore who digital nomads are and the reasons why Jay is creating a documentary about them situated in a very unique place.
Jay shares what “home” means to him.
And much more.
Jay’s links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayt0pp/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzevubxwGHCx7aVbKPTOxjg
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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 importance of desire and changing our neurochemistry
41:15 - How far we’ve come in the field of longevity
49:40 - “I just want to live long enough until we defeat death”
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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.
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Brett's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToKTeacher
Brett's blog: https://bretthall.org
Brett's podcast (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmP5H2rF-ER33a58ZD5jCig
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