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Nat Eliason is a writer and crypto insider with a wildly popular newsletter and podcast. He is the author of the book Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance.

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0:49 - Ayn Rand

6:40 - The transition from writing online to writing a book

12:26 - Marketing Crypto Confidential

16:43 - Writing for the modern world

21:20 - Come for the money, stay for the tech

26:49 - Decentralized social media

30:19 - Don’t be someone’s exit liquidity!

34:39 - The value of authenticity

36:39 - The advantages of being pseudonymous

39:19 - Constraints can help us be creative

42:53 - Is note-taking valuable?

46:02 - The future of work

50:11 - Strava for writing

53:49 - What idea sounds crazy today but will be mainstream in 5-10 years?

1:01:00 - Why Nat doesn’t use shampoo and other conventional health products

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Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.

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0:50 - How Johan changed his mind about human progress

3:50 - Pro-human flourishing cannot be anti-environment

5:33 - Alternative words to describe capitalism

8:30 - Why is there so much economic illiteracy?

12:36 - Despise poverty, not wealth or inequality

16:41 - We are taxing what we want more of

18:46 - Degrowth and the fall of western education

25:21 - The concept of “needs” is often abused

29:27 - How to have infinite growth on a finite planet

33:08 - Elon Musk

34:43 - Javier Milei and Argentina

39:34 - Privatizing law and justice systems

43:52 - Child labor

49:52 - Advice for young people

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Riva Tez is a philosopher, writer, and venture capitalist. She’s the author of the blog Hard to Write.

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0:52 - Does crypto make anarcho-capitalism pragmatic?

11:56 - Crypto is both technologically and morally superior

20:08 - Ayn Rand’s ideal world

26:00 - Children are humans in their purest form

30:03 - Having integrity in your beliefs

33:17 - Creating a TV show of Atlas Shrugged

36:33 - COVID radicalized a lot of people

41:48 - Riva’s toy store and philosophy class for kids

44:37 - Epistemological anarchism

46:49 - Objective beauty

50:57 - AI, AGI, and AI safety

57:25 - Distractions in the longevity movement

1:04:30 - Why care about longevity (and hate the state)

1:08:07 - Riva’s childhood

1:12:42 - There is more opportunity out there than anyone wants you to believe

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