Ingenuism

By Robert Hendershott, Don Watkins, and Yaron Brook

What's Ingenuism about?

We believe that the basic source of innovation is human ingenuity—the process of using creative thinking to solve productive challenges.

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Ingenuism episodes:

05.28.2024
Ingenuism: What is Ingenuism and Why Does it Matter?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook examine Ingenuism. What is Ingenuism? Why does Ingenuism matter? How do ideas progress through society? For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
01.12.2024
Ingenuism: Predictions for 2024
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss plans for Ingenuism in 2024, predictions in progress and the shift in culture. Will 2024 be more accepting of progress and the acceleration of building? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
12.30.2023
Ingenuism: The Trade Connection, Building Value
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss steel anti-trust legislation, Nippon Steel and the undercurrent that steel should be American made. Is owning and manufacturing steel outside of the US a national security issue? Sign up for our...
12.15.2023
Ingenuism: When Regulations Suppress Experimentation
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the progress of pharma-biotech and gene editing treatment in particular with reduction in tooth decay and the formidable costs of the FDA and overreach of government regulations. Sign up for our...
12.08.2023
Ingenuism: Learning by Doing – How Can Education Evolve?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss education where Ingenuism is not practiced but should be. The education industrial complex has evolved to only provide the foundational layer. How do we get people connected to the bodies of...
12.01.2023
Ingenuism: Artificial Intelligence -- Incentives Do Matter
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss artificial intelligence, open AI’s yo-yo firing of CEO and how fear is instigating slowing down the development of AI and the impact of the wrong incentives. How should we think from...
11.27.2023
Ingenuism: The Risk of Not Taking Risks
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss what the future looks like without taking risks. What is the risk of not developing AI? What is the risk of not investing resources out of fear? Is the future riskier if...
11.17.2023
Ingenuism: Is the US in Need of Managed Trade?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Noah Smith’s story about the growing consensus in the United States needs a central economy. How would this affect innovation? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
11.13.2023
Ingenuism: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto and SV's Problematic Concern with Fairness
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto and the backlash against optimism in technology. What does this mean for innovation? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
11.08.2023
Ingenuism: Marc Andressen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto is an Ode to Advancement
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto and how his vision for humanity paves the way for progress. What drives progress? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
11.01.2023
Ingenuism: What defines AI with Auren Hoffman
In this episode, Yaron Brook sits down with Auren Hoffman to discuss AI, technology, startups, his role of chief historian and what that is. Is the pessimism around AI valid? What defines AI? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
09.30.2023
Ingenuism: Paradoxes in the Economy and Market
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the contradictory signals in the market place, the economy and employment – is it up or down? Is the concern with a recession on track or will government overshoot/undershoot a correction?...
09.15.2023
Ingenuism: Elan Musk, Ingenuist in Action
Ingenuism is about experimentation and discovery. Elan Musk is a great example of an Ingenuist. In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the new biography coming out about Elan Musk, Elan Musk as an Ingenuist in new business,...
09.12.2023
Ingenuism: Longevity, Risks and Progress
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the Blueprint protocol, life extension measures and creating magic in our lives. The key is to be inspired to enhance one’s life to make it as good as it can be. Sign...
09.02.2023
Ingenuism: Winners and Losers of Industrial Policy
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss winners and losers of industrial policy and the process that comes with planning. Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
08.25.2023
Ingenuism and the Learning Dynamic
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss learning as a form of connection, integration and application as well as creation and progress. How do you apply ingenuity in ways that allow you to create new knowledge? Sign up for...
08.13.2023
Ingenuism and the Pursuit of Personal Values
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the goals and choices an individual makes and how Ingenuism helps in the pursuit of personal values. What does Ingenuism contribute? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
08.03.2023
Ingenuism: Is AI Really a Threat to Humanity?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss advantages and risks of autonomous taxis and vehicles along with the backlash against AI. What are we giving up when we suppress technology? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
07.25.2023
Ingenuism: Is Education Forcing Equality by Exclusion?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook continue their discussion on Ingenuism in education, with a dive into California’s new math, math education and the perceived inequality in algebra by excluding Algebra in middle school to keep students from...
07.21.2023
Ingenuism: Are schools the optimal way to learn?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss learning, how people learn and the institutions we’ve built around learning. Are schools the optimal way to learn? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com. Silicon Valley Examined, Season 1 Episode: 78
05.12.2023
Ingenuism: Ingenuism & Industrial Planning
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Noah Smith and the growing consensus that free trade is passé and industrial policy is the wave of the future (managed economy). Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
04.28.2023
Ingenuism: The Body Electric – Will AI be Your Doctor?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the two big moves in technology: AI and AI in bio tech and the life changing effects of AI in technology and culture. Will we have artificial wombs populating the moon?...
03.31.2023
Ingenuism: Learning from Failure
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the banking sector, learning from failure and the role regulators play in the banking industry and banking crisis. What lessons have (not) been learned? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
03.24.2023
Ingenuism: What Have we Learned from the Crisis and the Subsequent Policy Response?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Silicon Valley Bank, the banking crisis, what caused the banking industry to plummet, the SNL Crisis and what destroys banks. And they delve into what have we learned from the crisis...
03.17.2023
Ingenuism: Progress, Innovation & Ingenuism
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Progress, Innovation & Ingenuism. Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com. This interview aired on the Yaron Brook show on March 9th and includes audience questions.
03.03.2023
Ingenuism: Augmenting Intelligence and the Future
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss artificial intelligence vs automated intelligence, ChatGPT and the controversy of AI. Is AI the beginning of something fantastic? Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
02.17.2023
Ingenuism: Banks, Crypto, and Regulatory Force
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook talk about Pirate Wire’s article on Operation Choke Point 2.0 and an orchestrated attempt by regulatory agencies to sever link between banks and crypto over the last two months. Sign up for our...
02.10.2023
Ingenuism: Becoming an Ingenuist
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook delve into becoming an Ingenuist, how to apply the principles of Ingenuism to live your best life and the benefits of using Ingenuism to explore and discover new connections. Sign up for our...
02.03.2023
Ingenuism: The Principles of Ingenuism
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the principles of Ingenuism is and the application of Ingenuism in individual lives. Looking at the miracles that happened in the last 25 years and adoption of the internet. For anchor use...
01.20.2023
Ingenuism: Is Government Central Planning Successful or Harmful?
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss government central planning, planning the economy and claims that China’s central planning has been successful. For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
01.17.2023
Ingenuism: Chip War
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook continue their discussion of the book Chip War and the creation of the semiconductor industry, markets, ingenuity and connection. Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
01.10.2023
Ingenuism: Update on Crypto, Finance & Economy
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss crypto, finance and the economy. This episode originally aired December 16, 2022, but encountered technical difficulty with its release. For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for our newsletter at...
01.06.2023
Ingenuism: Year in Review & Looking Forward
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook reflect upon 2022 and the intersection between finance and technology, how things went in the year and what to look forward to in 2023. For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for...
11.29.2022
Ingenuism: Privatizing Twitter
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Twitter as a private company and the overpayment purchase price. Leveraged buyout and the finance issues out the gate, culture issues and social issues – can Twitter become profitable with no...
11.18.2022
Ingenuism: FTX Implosion, Part Two
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the implosion and fraud of FTX. For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
11.11.2022
Ingenuism: FTX, Cypto & Leverage
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss this week's crypto tide change, leverage, and the mismatch between liabilities and assets. For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
10.28.2022
Ingenuism in the Military
How do you encourage people’s natural ingenuity and people’s ability to recognize problems that are relevant to what they are doing invent solutions? In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss how the military is encouraging servicemen ingenuity and...
10.22.2022
Ingenuism: Truss Resignation & Bond Vigilantes
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the resignation of BritishPrime Minister Liz Truss and delve into the history of bond vigilantes, deficits, reactionary interest rates, discipline currency and financials market. Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
10.14.2022
Ingenuism: Bond Vigilantes are Back
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss market changes, inflation, UK markets, bond vigilantes and their impact on government's ability to over-spend and over-borrow. For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
10.04.2022
Ingenuism: Regulating Crypto
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss the inevitable regulations for crypto and what the pros and cons of regulation could be. Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
09.23.2022
Ingenuism: Innovative Technologies Improving Quality of Life
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss positive developments in the world and how wealth makes us resilient and able to cope with acts of nature. For example, space technology has given us tools to track hurricanes and...
09.13.2022
Ingenuism: Crypto and the Venture Capital Model
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss crypto currency in terms of becoming the next venture capital model. Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
09.02.2022
Ingenuism: StableCoins
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss crypto currency in terms of transactions, buying power with crypto and the volatility of crypto. Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
08.19.2022
Ingenuism: Crypto & Corporate Governance
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss crypto currency as a new technology in how firms raise money, crypto as a new mechanism for corporate governance, and establishing the relationship between employer and employee. Sign up for our newsletter...
08.08.2022
Ingenuism: Learning from Feedback 2
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook continue talking about feedback, the value of feedback and how we develop a healthy and mentality to embrace feedback and the lessons of failure. Discover Ingenuism: https://ingenuism.substack.com For anchor use this line instead: Sign...
08.02.2022
Ingenuism: Learning from Feedback
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook talk about learning and the relationship between Ingenuism and learning, the mechanism from which we learn and how feedback helps us learn. For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for our newsletter...
07.22.2022
Ingenuism: What’s the Blockchain good for?
Ingenuism: What’s the Blockchain good for? In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook revisit crypto, blockchain and the basics. Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
07.18.2022
Ingenuism & The Funding of Science
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook talk about the application of ingenuism to how we do science and the model today. For anchor use this line instead: Sign up for our newsletter at ingenuism.com.
07.01.2022
Ingenuism & The Pricing of Bitcoin and Crypto Assets
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Ingenuism in relation to the market, the pricing of Bitcoin and crypto assets. How should people think about Bitcoin? And how do these financial assets get priced if not based on...
06.24.2022
Ingenuism & Crypto
In this episode, Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook discuss Ingenuism as it relates to crypto. Is Ingenuism being applied in crypto? What is crypto and where did it come from? Will it replace the dollar? Sign up for our newsletter at...

What's Ingenuism about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Ingenuism episodes:

Ingenuism: What is Ingenuism and Why Does it Matter?

Ingenuism: Predictions for 2024

Ingenuism: The Trade Connection, Building Value

Ingenuism: When Regulations Suppress Experimentation

Ingenuism: Learning by Doing – How Can Education Evolve?

Ingenuism: Artificial Intelligence -- Incentives Do Matter

Ingenuism: The Risk of Not Taking Risks

Ingenuism: Is the US in Need of Managed Trade?

Ingenuism: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto and SV's Problematic Concern with Fairness

Ingenuism: Marc Andressen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto is an Ode to Advancement

Ingenuism: What defines AI with Auren Hoffman

Ingenuism: Paradoxes in the Economy and Market

Ingenuism: Elan Musk, Ingenuist in Action

Ingenuism: Longevity, Risks and Progress

Ingenuism: Winners and Losers of Industrial Policy

Ingenuism and the Learning Dynamic

Ingenuism and the Pursuit of Personal Values

Ingenuism: Is AI Really a Threat to Humanity?

Ingenuism: Is Education Forcing Equality by Exclusion?

Ingenuism: Are schools the optimal way to learn?

Ingenuism: Ingenuism & Industrial Planning

Ingenuism: The Body Electric – Will AI be Your Doctor?

Ingenuism: Learning from Failure

Ingenuism: What Have we Learned from the Crisis and the Subsequent Policy Response?

Ingenuism: Progress, Innovation & Ingenuism

Ingenuism: Augmenting Intelligence and the Future

Ingenuism: Banks, Crypto, and Regulatory Force

Ingenuism: Becoming an Ingenuist

Ingenuism: The Principles of Ingenuism

Ingenuism: Is Government Central Planning Successful or Harmful?

Ingenuism: Chip War

Ingenuism: Update on Crypto, Finance & Economy

Ingenuism: Year in Review & Looking Forward

Ingenuism: Privatizing Twitter

Ingenuism: FTX Implosion, Part Two

Ingenuism: FTX, Cypto & Leverage

Ingenuism in the Military

Ingenuism: Truss Resignation & Bond Vigilantes

Ingenuism: Bond Vigilantes are Back

Ingenuism: Regulating Crypto

Ingenuism: Innovative Technologies Improving Quality of Life

Ingenuism: Crypto and the Venture Capital Model

Ingenuism: StableCoins

Ingenuism: Crypto & Corporate Governance

Ingenuism: Learning from Feedback 2

Ingenuism: Learning from Feedback

Ingenuism: What’s the Blockchain good for?

Ingenuism & The Funding of Science

Ingenuism & The Pricing of Bitcoin and Crypto Assets

Ingenuism & Crypto