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Startup Rebels
by Startup RebelsInsights on decision science, leadership, and occasional ancient wisdom for founders and builders. Ayon and Aryik combine their years of experience building top-tier startups from the ground up in Silicon Valley with cutting edge research on decision science, inspiring insights from great leaders, and startling intellectual diversions that will literally set your brain on fire from the inside. Few people who listen to this podcast survive the experience. You gotta try this shit man. It’s just that good.
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Episodes
George Orwell: Animal Farm
1h 35m · Published"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - George Orwell.
Tune in for our take on Orwell's satirical "Fairy Story" which follows a group of animals as they rebel against their farm's cruel master and try to establish a government based on high-minded revolutionary ideals. Orwell's allegory is a scathing critique of totalitarianism and Stalinism, and one of the great political novels of the 20th century.
You can buy Animal Farm here: https://amzn.to/3NbroGS (paid link).
We'd love to here from you at contact(at)rdmr.io or @rdmr_io on Twitter.
The Psychology of Money
50m · PublishedLet's say you have two people, a janitor and a Harvard trained financial executive. Would you believe it if I told you the janitor ended up wealthier than the Ivy League financier? How could that be?
Join us on this episode of Reading Rebellion to learn how to navigate the maze of your mind and understand the psychology of money.
Short: Fallacies Are Undermining You
15m · PublishedWhat if I told you your brain is careening onto icy off-ramps of falsehood on the road to truth? And what if I gave you a map to stay on that road?
To give you guys a taste of our short podcast channel (Reading Rebellion Shorts), I'm crossposting this episode here. The regular long episode will be out tomorrow!
Alcibiades: The Original Demagogue
57m · Published"Suppose that at this moment some God came to you and said: Alcibiades, will you live as you are or die in an instant if you are forbidden to make any further acquisition?—I verily believe that you would choose death." - Socrates
What happens when a power-hungry demagogue who believes in his right to rule over others meets a deep philosophical mind, bent on unwinding demagogic delusion? And what happens when we listen in and walk away questioning our own fundamental beliefs?
Find out on this episode of Reading Rebellion.
How Evil Are Politicians Feat. Bryan Caplan
1h 10m · PublishedPower-hunger, false rhetoric, and the lowest common denominator: Politics is a dirty business and nobody knows that more than Bryan Caplan.
Bryan is a philosophically-minded economist and intellectual rebel trained at Princeton and Berkeley. He's a professor at George Mason University, an author of several other books, and deep thinker on many crucial issues.
Talk a walk on the dark side with us on this episode!
You can buy “How Evil are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery” here: https://amzn.to/3Mvhi40 (paid link). You can also find Bryan on Substack (https://betonit.substack.com/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan).
Rationality I: Map and Territory
49m · Published
Network Effects: Creating the Next $1B Company
1h 3m · PublishedEver wonder what makes tech giants tick? Companies like Facebook, Twitter, AirBnB, Amazon grow exponentially with small, efficient teams and low customer acquisition costs. Instagram grew to 30 million users with just 13 employees.
How can you grow your company exponentially from scratch like a tech unicorn? We'll answer all this questions and more in our deep dive on network effects, based on Andrew Chen's book The Cold Start Problem. Andrew Chen was VP of growth at Uber and is a venture capitalist at a16z.
Teddy Roosevelt: The Man In The Arena
48m · Published"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds" - Teddy Roosevelt.
We'll be discussing Roosevelt's 1910 speech in the context of my first ever jiujitsu tournament, and generally, the challenge and reward of trying to do hard things.
Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
27m · PublishedImagine an ultra-rational, emotionless, being who always makes judicious and perfectly calibrated decisions. Picture someone like Plato, Descartes, or maybe Spock. This is who you would want managing your investments, right? Wrong.
People who suffer damage to their emotional centers lose the ability to make complex decisions in personal and professional life. How can this be? What is the relationship between reason and emotion in the human brain?
This is what we'll discuss in today's episode based on Descarte's Error by Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at USC.
Utilitarianism II: J.S Mill
54m · PublishedIs maximizing pleasure and reducing pain an appropriate goal for moral living? Is it realistic to expect us to consider the greatest happiness of all people as we try to act morally in our lives? Is it better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied?
In this episode we'll discuss J.S Mill's essay "utilitarianism" where he lays out and defends a moral framework dedicated to reducing suffering and maximizing human happiness.
Startup Rebels has 58 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 55:40:49. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 27th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on February 19th, 2024 09:12.