I decided to read one of my favorite essays of all time, The Obviousness of Anarchy, by John Hasnas, so that an audio version can be enjoyed by all.

The Obviousness of Anarchy

I just published a brand new book on canonic.xyz. I chat with the CEO about what it means to allow authors to publish on the blockchain and how bitcoin enables a future of low-cost high-value information like never before seen.

Enjoy!

You can buy the book here - https://canonic.xyz/books/12cy7aGkmg9CxgLXd4WFp6FJWSJHcbZ5NQ/limited

Guide to doing it if you're new to BitcoinSV - https://isaacmorehouse.com/2021/05/28/i-published-a-new-book-and-how-to-buy-it/

A New Paradigm for Publishing

I Tweeted, "It's possible that psychedelics help people discover the secrets of the universe. It's certain that they make people less able to discover how to be useful to those around them."

River took issue and said we should chat. So we did!

Do Psychedelics Make You Less Useful?

Is it a wonderful tale about the impact a single life can have, or a propaganda piece about sacrificing your dreams to collectivism and envy?

Deryk and I talk about one of our all-time favorite movies, and why it drives us nuts even though we love it.

It's a Wonderful Life: the good and the bad, with Deryk Makgill

I joined Ken Coleman to talk about how to leverage connections in your career.

Isaac on the Ken Coleman Show

Cameron Sorsby is the CEO of Praxis. But he began as an unpaid intern willing to do anything to help the company grow.

We chat is story, Praxis updates, and why he'd turn down the GM role for the San Antonio Spurs.

From Intern to CEO in 5 Years: Cameron Sorsby Talks Praxis and Careers

Alex Agut and his biz partner wanted tiny payments for apps they were building. Traditional payment processors couldn't do it. Bitcoin could, but was too complicated for normal users.

BTC fees became too high for tiny payments, but BHC and BSV emerged to restore the original low-fee design of bitcoin.

That's when Alex had an idea: What if instead of waiting for a normie-friendly bitcoin wallet, they built one?

HandCash.io is a user-first wallet with a built in app store for tiny payment apps. They also provide developers with super easy tools to let users login and pay + earn with HandCash.

We walk through the experience and talk about what the future holds.

Tiny Payments are a Big Deal, Part 7: HandCash and the App Economy

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Joshua Henslee joins me to talk tokens, enterprise, and more.

Tiny Payments are a Big Deal, Part 8: "99% of Crypto is a Joke" with Joshua Henslee

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Nicky is an entrepreneur, former professional dancer and instructor, and fellow tiny payment fan. He created Genuine Retweets to solve his own problem, and discovered he was onto something much bigger.

Tiny Payments are a Big Deal, Part 9: Micro-Influence, with Nicky Nu

Joel is the author of The Daily Job Hunt (crash.co/daily) which goes out to 170k+ people every morning, and he's just published his first book.

He joins to talk about the process and his own journey to becoming a creative machine.

joelbein.com

Do It Now - Joel Bein talks Creativity and Persistence

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The guys from Haste tell their winding tale from minor league baseball to building the Barpay app to creating a simple arcade game where the leaderboard gets payouts. That game led to a platform for game builders and a budding revolution.

If you can't see the coolness in this simple use-case, I don't know what to do for you!

Tiny Payments are a Big Deal, Part 10: Re-inventing the Arcade with Haste

Why PartnerHacker?

It took a while, but the latest ChatGPT Large Language Model AI thingy finally got me seeing an amazing future.

Steve Patterson brings some excellent analysis to what's going on and what it means.

AI Has (Finally) Got Me Hyped - with Steve Patterson

Cyprian (aka Vin Armani) joins me to discuss his take on AI. If you're not in for weird spiritual stuff, this is not the episode for you!

We talk about whether AI is a technology or an entity, how it differs from other tech, and what it means for civilization.

Is AI an Entity? A Spiritual Look, with Cyprian

I had two conversations on AI recently - one about its promise as a tech tool, and one about its dangers as a portal to hell.

I think both are true.

Should You Fear AI?

We continue our Beginner’s guide to startups with a discussion that continues on the basics of formatting an idea and preparing a business plan. Michael Gibson from 1517 Fund joins me to speak about the investor side of the story.

We cover the types of investors that can be found out there, what to look for and how to approach an investor, what a startup accelerator can help you with and what to consider when applying for one. Also we cover what investors think about when they consider which startup to support and 
what they fear the most.

51 - Beginner's Guide To Startups Part 2: Investor Side Of The Table, with Michael Gibson

Lenny Magill is the founder and CEO of Glockstore, the largest retailer of Glock weapons, accessories, and parts in the world. The online store at Glockstore.com alone serves over 250,000 customers around the globe. Lenny is also very well known in the shooting community for his videos on shooting and self-defense. 

Lenny shares the story of his career, from growing up in Pennsylvania, and along all sorts of twists and turns from working in restaurants, radio DJing, selling advertising, producing TV shows, selling gun videos to now, running the largest Glock retailer in the world. 

This episode is two hours jam packed with amazing stories and powerful insights. You won’t want to miss a minute.

Along the way 
- Lenny’s upbringing in Pennsylvania
- From the path to medical school to dropping out
- Moving to California and working in restaurants
- How waiting tables opened an opportunity in radio
- Lenny’s journey in the radio business
- How radio news led to selling radio ads
- Becoming a student when you have an incentive
- Transition into cable TV
- How he entered the gun business
- Handing a rapidly changing video environment in the 90’s 
- Why you need to do great work no matter what job you have
- The importance of time for concentrated thought about life, business, and who you want to be
- What habits, tools, and techniques Lenny has used to create a happy, healthy, and successful life

Show notes and all links mentioned are available at isaacmorehouse.com

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103 - GlockStore Founder Lenny Magill on Sales and Why Problem Solving Beats a Resume

Derek Carter was racing along the path to partnership at a large accounting firm. He had graduated college with an accounting degree and spent years busting his ass, taking on more responsibility and leading at a large regional firm. He was managing people and working with autonomy in a large organization.

But his former colleague Levi Morehouse kept trying to sell him on leaving. They had worked together before Levi left to start Ceterus and had been pushing for Derek to join ever since. Eventually, Derek decided to make the leap into the startup world.

He’s now the COO of Ceterus, one of the most innovative and fastest growing accounting startups in the country.

Derek shares his backstory, from how he chose to pursue accounting, to deciding to leave his good job at a big firm to join a startup.

Derek is an outstanding example of an implementer joining with a visionary to make big things happen. If you’re working in a traditional role and excited by the possibility of working with a startup, there's a ton of wisdom for you in this episode.

Covered in this episode:
- Leaning competitiveness from baseball 
- Deciding to pursue an accounting degree
- What made Northwood University great
- What are the common characteristics of accountants
- Why public accountants need to learn how to sell to continuing progressing in their careers
- Derek’s experience starting at a large public accounting firm
- The disconnect between auditing classes in college and auditing reality 
- How did Derek decide to join Ceterus
- Making the switch from a large established company to a startup
- What does Derek look for when hiring for Ceterus 
- Making the decision to seek and eventually take on outside investment
- Advice for implementors who want to work in cool fields, but don’t want to be visionaries
- Opportunities at Ceterus

Show notes and links to all books, articles, and resources mentioned are available at isaacmorehouse.com

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108 - Implementer or Visionary (or why accountants can do cool stuff too!) with Derek Carter

TK has been on the show many times, but in all of our conversations, we have never taken a deep dive into his career path.

TK's taken a fascinating path and worked as a bartender, server, financial planner, seminar leader, startup founder, philosophy assistant professor and many other roles before becoming Education Director for Praxis.  

In today's episode, we start with the first part of his career journey from childhood career aspirations, to college, and then making the move to LA. 

In this episode:
- What did TK want to do for a career as a kid?
- Falling in love with theater
- Deciding to become a financial advisor
- Feeling a calling to leave Michigan to pursue acting
- Confusing family and friends with career choices
- Leaving a job in the philosophy department at WMU to try out for -
 American Idol
- Learning that failure in real life isn’t nearly as bad as failure in theory
- Becoming an accounting trainer
- Learning without a scarcity mindset
- Getting on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader
- TK’s first startup

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126 -  Part One: TK Coleman's Career Journey: From American Express, to American Idol, to Praxis

This is the second part of an in-depth conversation with TK about his career path. 

We finished the last episode with TK moving to LA to pursue a career in acting. This episode starts with the story of launching an entertainment startup and goes all the way to working as the education director for Praxis.

In this episode:
- Joining the founding team of an entertainment tech startup
- Going out to raise funding around the time of the financial crisis
- Realizing when it was time to give up
- Getting a shot at film production
- Never acting from a position of desperation
- How doggy day care almost led to a movie
- Creating without permission
- Blogging for three years straight
- TK’s key takeaways from his career

Show notes featuring all links mentioned can be found at isaacmorehouse.com

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127 - Part Two: TK Coleman's Career Journey

The most popular guest in show history is back! NL and Isaac dive into a wide range of topics on this weeks episode. 

Topics Discussed:
- Why did NL decide to celebrate Dia de Muertos (Day of The Dead)
- Celebrations from other cultures
- Why has Marvel been so successful with taking superheroes to movies, when DC hasn’t
- Pop culture trends
- Professionals trying to be unprofessional
- NL’s book
- Dire perfume names
- Starting to use Facebook
- Unschooling & Creating your own structure
- Starting a sandwich business
- The biggest differences for in life as a 12-year-old today vs. twenty years ago

Links:
- IM Podcast Episode 17 What It’s Like to Be an Unschooled with NL Morehouse https://isaacmorehouse.com/2015/06/15/episode-17-what-its-like-to-be-an-unschooled-10-year-old-with-nl-morehouse/
- Star Wars Review Episode with NL Morehouse https://isaacmorehouse.com/2015/12/21/star-wars-the-force-awakens-movie-review/
- Interview with a Nine Year Old with NL Morehouse https://isaacmorehouse.com/2014/05/12/interview-with-a-nine-year-old/
- Interview with an Eight-Year-Old with NL Morehouse  https://isaacmorehouse.com/2013/04/08/interview-with-an-eight-year-old/
- theblogofnl.wordpress.com

133 - Dia De Muertos, Creating Structure as an Unschooler, and More with NL Morehouse

Thaddeus Russell is the author of Renegade History of the United States, founder of Renegade University, host of the Unregistered podcast, and an intellectual entrepreneur.

In this episode, Isaac and Thaddeus dive into World War Two. The reasons why the US joined the war, why Franklin Roosevelt wanted war with Japan and Nazi Germany, what stopped Jewish immigrants from leaving Europe, and more. 

Topics Discussed:
- Renegade University
- The reasons people believe the US entered WW2
- FDR and the war in the Pacific
- Roosevelt’s desire for war with Japan
- Jewish immigration to the United States
- Trust in the media
- Self-censorship in the media before and during WW2
- The argument for going to war with Nazi Germany in 1942
- Why Roosevelt wanted to go to war with Nazi Germany
- Germany post world war one
- Autarky in Nazi Germany and Japan
- The US controlling international trade
- US refusal of Jewish Immigrants before and during WW2
- Immigration quotas

134 - Thaddeus Russell on World War Two

Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Age of Em and co-author of the new book The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life which is a facilitating look into the real reasons that motivate people and society.

Topics Discussed:
- Robin’s new book, The Elephant in the Brain
- Split brain patients
- The reasons for vague language
- The lack of correlation between medicine and health
- Using gifts to show how much we care
- The cost of violating norms
- Why religious people are healthier and wealthier
- Demonstrating group loyalty through ritual
- Religion and politics
- Signaling and education
- Our choices have audiences
- How signals change

For full show notes visit isaacmorehouse.com/podcast

135 - Robin Hanson on 'The Elephant in the Brain'

Steve Patterson, Deryk Makgill, and TK Coleman join me for another rousing discussion.

This one went a bit longer than intended, but I assure you, it only gained momentum and by the end we were yelling at each other about patents.

It was fun!

To re-iterate: All four of us share a desire to see bitcoin become global free market money and so much more. We love big blocks, low fees, speed, innovation, and rapid adoption with as many use cases as possible.

We debate, discuss, and sometimes disagree on the best strategies and which approaches have the highest probability of success.

We all believe that both BCH and BSV approaches have merit, and to religiously dismiss one out of hand is a mental and strategic mistake. We hold no malice for any of the players involved and welcome thoughtful discussion (hell, I even get a kick out of thoughtless trolling!)

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Originally released on YouTube on February 7th, 2020

Bitcoin Talk 4: Scaling, Funding, and Patents in Bitcoin

The Numpties discuss bitcoin with Daniel Krawisz.

We start with the Austrian understanding of money, why Bitcoin fulfills the regression theorem, why big blocks are necessary, and how Daniel split from the BTC consensus.

We debate whether merchant adoption is a necessary step or an inevitable result, what it means to grow bitcoin, why saving IS using, crazy bitcoin cults, the handicap principle, narcissists in crypto, what Turing completeness means, and a lot more.

Thanks to Daniel for joining. We had a ton of fun!

Originally released on May 15th, 2020

Bitcoin Talk 9: The Emperor of Bitcoin on Why He Thinks BSV Will Win, and Why BTC Lacks Imagination

My good friend and co-conspirator TK Coleman hopped on with me to catch up, talk about his current work, how he learned to stop fearing controversy and embrace it, why he wants to talk about race, what's going on in the world, and some basketball lessons from the Pistons and Bulls.

TK Coleman Talks Riots, Black Dreams, and Last Dance

TK and I sit down to chat about his beef with free-market advocates who fail to see when the market is winning and instead fear what it might produce.

We dive into companies responding to social outrage, whether it's a worrisome sign of mob mentality or a positive process for truth discovery, and a whole lot more.

TK Coleman - Virtue Signalling and Corporate Activism Aren't the Enemy

I hate services that make it hard to unsubscribe or get out of a contract.

But you know what's even dumber?

Trying to fix it with regulation...

"But How Do I Unsubscribe?"

Nicole was fighting for freedom but not living free in the process.

The libertarian nonprofit scene was sucking the life out of her, so she decided to quit and set out on her own to pursue the things that made her feel free. She runs a farmstead, rents out houses, cans tomatoes, does workshhops on processing chickens, and so much more.

Nicole Sauce is the host of Living Free in Tennessee, owner of Holler Roast Coffee, and a marketing and business consultant to people who want more control over their life.

"I Escaped the Libertarian Movement" - Nicole Sauce on Living Free in Tennessee

“The Myth of the Rule of Law” was written by John Hasnas and originally published in 1995 in the Wisconsin Law Review no. 199.

I read it (with a few mumbles and mistakes) in its entirety from https://www.copblock.org/40719/myth-rule-law-john-hasnas/

Thanks to Prof Hasnas for writing this excellent essay, as well as another called "The Obviousness of Anarchy", both of which were profoundly influential on my thinking.

The Myth of the Rule of Law, by John Hasnas

Our culture's concern for victims is relatively new and radical in human history. Where does it come from? And how does understanding memetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism make sense of the world?

Radio and podcast host David Gornoski and I discuss his rare blend of Christian theology, Rene Girard's sociology, and a political philosophy of non-violence.

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