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
