David Senra & Liberty RPF — Unleashing the Scenius (EP.148)

Friends-of-the-show David Senra & Liberty RPF return for a characteristically wide-ranging conversation. Enjoy! Important Links

• Founders Podcast
• Founders on Colossus
• David’s Twitter
• Liberty’s Substack
• Liberty’s Twitter
• David Bowie Predicts the Impact of the Internet on Newsnight

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