Messages
4/13/2024
9 : 54
The Price of “Free”
Why the Government Cannot Escape Economic Reality to Provide Your Needs. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
3/23/2024
9 : 4
#27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart
Watch now (70 mins) | 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
3/21/2024
9 : 34
It’s Impossible to Justify Predictions from Evidence. Here’s Why.
Imagine a chicken on a farm who sees the farmer bring it food every morning. Every day, the chicken watches the farmer come with food, making it think that the farmer always brings food. But one day,
2/19/2024
2 : 34
#26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper
Listen now (84 mins) | 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
2/4/2024
13 : 24
The Not So Good Old Days
“[T]he sage gave him the history of man in a single line; it was this: he was born, he suffered, and he died. […] Life was insignificant and death without consequence.” — W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human
1/1/2024
9 : 54
#25 – David Deutsch: Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism
Watch now (41 mins) | 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
12/10/2023
13 : 24
Profits Are Proof of Service
Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.
11/26/2023
14 : 14
#119 – Creativity: Our Only Way Forward
Rejecting Career Paths and Planning for Uncertainty
11/12/2023
7 : 44
#118 – Inequality is Not a Problem, Poverty is
We will only have perfectly achieved equality when we are all dead.
10/29/2023
13 : 34
The Altruism Trap: How Self-Sacrifice Stymies Progress
If everyone sacrificed their own happiness for the happiness of others, no one would be happy.
10/8/2023
10 : 34
#116 – The Religion of Science
Addressing a form of zealotry that is cloaked in the guise of science.
10/1/2023
9 : 24
#115 – The Myth of the Compromise
The notion of compromise often receives praise as a virtuous middle ground, a means for rationally resolving conflicts and maintaining harmony. It is the balanced solution where everyone gets a little
9/24/2023
14 : 24
#114 – Conversations About Economic Illiteracy and Critical Rationalism
Interviews with Per Bylund and Tom Hyde.
9/17/2023
12 : 14
#113 – The real culprit of consumerism
Ironically, behavior induced by government intervention gets labeled as “consumerism”, yet the blame often erroneously falls on capitalism and free markets.
9/10/2023
16 : 24
#112 – Creativity and personhood
We must defend the freedom of the mind to be creative at all costs.
8/27/2023
11 : 14
#111 – Some Quotes Against the State
For this week's newsletter, I thought I would deviate from the usual format to share some quotes (and a poem) centered around a theme that has recently occupied my thoughts. Enjoy! On employing
8/20/2023
9 : 24
#110 – On discipling children and towards a better childhood
Childhood does not have to entail coercion.
8/14/2023
10 : 54
#109 – The scale of creativity
Through understanding, we liberate ourselves.
8/6/2023
9 : 14
#109 – The Constraints of Money
We typically think of constraints as limiting factors to something we want to achieve. This conception is too narrow. Progress often comes from discovering constraints, and from further refining them.
7/30/2023
10 : 24
#108 – The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman; a summary
Richard P. Feynman was one of the 20th century's most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers. He all but rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics. It was for this work that he