David Frum: I think there's a common goes to America. Andrew Carnegie starts working in factories at 13 years old and his entire career, whether he was learning telegraph, learning how to do iron to build railroads to build steel. He says, hey, invest in technology. And so the old timers like, why do you keep buying these new machines? You don't need this. We've been doing this way forever. His whole point is like invest in technology, the savings compound. Sometimes it can be the difference between a profit and a loss. That decision to see it as a threat set of tool sent his entire family into poverty because the genie's out of the
Friends-of-the-show David Senra & Liberty RPF return for a characteristically wide-ranging conversation. Enjoy! Important Links
Show Notes:
- David’s lunch with Sam Zell
- Optimizing for freedom
- Information can build a fortune
- Persist, persist, persist
- Burning the ships
- Customising education
- Where are the Teddy Roosevelt’s of today?
- Embracing our evangelical side
- “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see”
- Fighting fear of technological development
- Is anything truly ‘new’?
- "Properly understood technology is just a better way to do something”
- Towards positive sum games
- How to cultivate voluntary engagement
- Unleashing the scenius
- Finding better explanations
- Risk-taking and the origins of the USA
- The explore and create framework
- Read biographies
- MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel; by Sam Zell
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey; by Candice Millard
- Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill; by Candice Millard
- Cinema Speculation; by Quentin Tarantino
- Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work; by Ian Nathan
- The WEIRDest People in the World; by Joseph Henrich
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future; by Peter Thiel
- The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie; by Andrew Carnegie
- All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger - A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense; by Peter Bevelin
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness; by Eric Jorgenson
- Enzo Ferrari 2018: Power, Politics and the Making of an Automobile Empire; by Luca Dal Monte
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World; by David Deutsch
- One Summer: America, 1927; by Bill Bryson