Free Thought

I talk with Kerry McDonald about her book, Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom. 

Chapters:

00:00:00 Kerry McDonald https://fee.org/kerry

00:04:30 Public school vs Homeschool 

00:06:20 Harvard 

00:10:50 FEE https://fee.org/

00:11:30 Cato https://www.cato.org/

00:12:10 Educational Freedom in America 

00:14:15 Compulsory schooling laws 

00:16:10 Unschooling 

00:19:00 Adult learning vs child learning 

00:20:40 Creativity, curiosity, entrepreneurship 

00:23:30 Unschooling at Kerry's home 

00:25:18 Creating vs consuming 

00:27:40 Gender differences 

00:29:14 Kids are expected to read earlier and earlier 

00:30:27 Individuality in education 

00:31:15 Thomas Edison 

00:32:35 Study on adults who were unschooled

00:33:25 Left vs Right in homeschooling

Isaac Morehouse, founder and CEO of Crash, and founder of Praxis talks with me about learning out loud, job hunting, being honest, pitching yourself to get a job, and prioritizing your time.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Isaac Morehouse https://isaacmorehouse.com/

00:00:19 Inner Game of Startups https://canonic.xyz/books/12cy7aGkmg9CxgLXd4WFp6FJWSJHcbZ5NQ/limited

00:01:00 Praxis https://discoverpraxis.com/

00:01:02 Crash https://crash.co/

00:10:25 My pitch to Isaac https://aaronolson.blog/2022/02/23/how-to-pitch-your-way-to-a-new-job/

00:10:50 Mindset shift in the job hunt 

00:12:50 Increase your luck surface with a job pitch 

00:16:20 Could a bad pitch harm your job search? 

00:19:15 Be honest in your job hunt 

00:20:15 A good salesperson is empathetic 

00:22:40 Posting in the days of COVID 

00:26:00 Posting on social media 

00:28:25 Homeschooling and learning out loud 

00:32:20 Twetch http://twet.ch/inv/stoic

00:34:00 Kids learning out loud 

00:36:50 Prioritizing time 

00:39:00 Don't do stuff you hate 

00:41:00 80/20 Rule 

00:42:00 Don't try to be everywhere at once 

00:43:40 Tiny payments https://www.nanopay.cash/

00:49:30 Create more than you consume

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Daniel Krawisz (aka The Bitcoin Emperor) shares with me his latest thoughts about what Fredrick Nietzsche and Ernest Becker had to say about taking risks in life. Daniel implores us to consider taking some calculated risks in life. Thanks, The Bitcoin Cash Podcast for the chapter marks!

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro 

00:00:42 Discussing economics 

00:03:10 Presentation start 

00:06:34 Nietzsche and Becker 

00:11:21 Random walks 

00:14:51 Fear of death 

00:16:32 Economics and Becker’s psychology 

00:23:05 Darwinian influence 

00:24:14 Theory summary 

00:26:00 Rationality of instinct 

00:30:47 Fauci 

00:33:57 Summary of attitudes 

00:40:35 Application of theory 

00:45:00 Optimal strategy 

00:48:35 Modern cultural groups 

00:57:58 Men and danger, philosophical approaches 

01:03:00 Practical implementation and Warren Buffet 

01:07:00 Scams/games 

01:10:00 Value of money and Bitcoin

I talk with Hunter Hastings from the Mises Institute about the role that creativity and imagination in entrepreneurship. Hunter tells about the role that action and experimentation play in entrepreneurship. 

Chapters:

00:00:00 Hunter Hastings https://hunterhastings.com/

00:00:30 Hunter Hastings on Twitter https://twitter.com/hhhastings

00:02:46 What is an entrepreneur? 

00:08:22 Role of the customer 

00:10:35 Imagination vs implementation 

00:12:50 E4B website https://econ4business.com/

00:16:40 Education 

00:20:31 Big business becomes bureaucratic 

00:23:01 Cryptocurrency 

00:25:08 Twetch http://twet.ch/inv/stoic

00:26:55 Austrian economics 

00:29:15 How to think like an entrepreneur 

00:31:44 Don't complain, create 

00:33:33 Don't analyze, experiment 

00:35:18 Test the market 

00:38:03 Econ 4 Business Podcast https://mises.org/library/economics-business

00:38:32 Hunter Hastings Website https://hunterhastings.com/

00:38:45 Mises.org https://mises.org/

00:39:24 Mises Institute Books Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mises-audio-books-podcast/id1055730978?mt=2

00:40:01 Austrian Economics a Primer https://www.adamsmith.org/research/austrian-economics-a-primer

00:40:36 Economics in One Lesson https://youtu.be/N5MGRxD-HSc

00:40:54 Human Action by Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/library/human-action-0

00:41:05 Bob Murphy notes on Human Action https://mises.org/library/robert-p-murphy-cooperation-enterprise-and-human-action

I talk with Darren Kalama of the Marcionite Christian Church. We talk about how the Marcionite Church is one of the only Christian churches to come out against the COVID insanity. We also discuss the history of the church and about Marcion of Sinope.

Links:

Church: https://www.marcionitechurch.org/

Marcionite Bible: https://www.theveryfirstbible.org/

Marcionite News Network: https://www.firstbiblenetwork.com/

Marcionite Podcast: https://therightbible.sounder.fm/

Dr. Hugh McTavish argues that the madness of COVID lockdowns caused more harm than good.

Links:

https://covid-sanity.org/

https://www.hughmctavish.com/

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