Teddy Roosevelt was a master, the president to explore a rough writer. He would go on these like three week train trips to campaign and he'd bring 40 books for three weeks. How many of our presidents read 40 books in a year? And you wrote books about like birds and novel history and you wrote them and you read them like crazy. I have no idea who is the teddie of today. Certainly they're not in fucking politics anywhere.
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