The Isaac Morehouse Podcast

Would you put yourself into an environment where learning becomes an activity that you hate and for which you hope that it will last as short as possible? Connor Boyack told himself that if he would not do that to himself, than he shouldn’t do it to his children. Education should be based on letting children discover new passions through creativity and an incentivized environment - same things tha...

Today is another FwTK/Ask Isaac combo where we take questions submitted via the website and live questions from Facebook. Covered in the episode: TK admits, "I'm angry at everybody", we answer a few tough questions about choosing alternatives to college and dealing with skeptical parents, as well as how to build a network outside of school. Plus an assortment of other great questions, including: W...

Famous philosophers advocated separation of church and state on the basis that such a connection would corrupt both institutions. I oppose state established education on the same grounds - it undermines diversity, eliminates competition between beliefs and ideas, creating the illusion of schooling being equal to education.

This Friday TK and I are taking a break from live discussion...but you still get to hear his ideas! This episode is a chapter from the audiobook version of Why Haven't You Read This Book? The episode includes the book's introduction as well as a chapter, read by Mitchell Earl, that tells TK's story of throwing caution to the wind and traveling cross country to audition for American Idol. Next week...

Entrepreneur, podcaster, free thinker and BFF Jeff Till joins me to expand on a Facebook post about “doublespeak” or “doublethink” where a policy idea is mistaken for (or purposefully replaced by) a more genuine objective or desire. Here we talk myths about school, the law, the military, welfare, and regulation. Enjoy! The post the episode is based on: Just about every argument for school is actua...

Praxis colleague, aviation buff, and all around interesting guy Zak Slayback comes back to the show to talk about the future, technology, progress, work, universal basic income, and much more. We discuss whether there is a "digital divide" between urban and rural populations, whether that has significance culturally or politically, the rate of technological change, how self-driving cars might disr...

Today we discuss why you have to be free before you expect the world to, not the other way around. We talk about why politics is disempowering, why it's so hard to not let your job get in the way of your work, and why fringe theories are great for society. Recommended in the episode: But What if We're Wrong, Patterson in Pursuit, Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes. This and all epis...

To specialize or to generalize, that is the question - which I asked Chuck Grimmett, a web developer during the day and solver of interesting problems in creative ways during the night. Chuck likes to dabble into many things while searching for might be interesting, and has an interesting approach to learning which entails the importance of feedback, that he shared with me. Simple and tasty recipe...

Sometimes you just have to realize what it is to pass it. TK and I discuss the concept of "shit tests" and how interpreting disagreement and hate through this lens can keep you in your "zone of power" (TK's cheesy phrase). Recommendations from the episode: Pulling Your Own Strings by Wayne Dyer, How to Deal With Nasty People by Jay Carter, Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar.

Highly acclaimed NYT bestselling author who has written 12 books, acquired education at some of the top institutions and managed to become a most prolific online content creator, Tom Woods joined me to talk about what gets him out of the bed every day and issues that he struggled with on his way to become an intellectual entrepreneur. Tom shared some personal stories and he talked about how he dea...

TK and I cover a wide range of topics and I kind of went nuts taking more mic time than normal. Host privilege is real. Mentioned in the episode: Be Slightly Evil, Without Their Permission, Neil Gaiman, management books, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Herbert Spencer, Tempo, The Gervais Principle, The Obedience-Entitlement Matrix, The Matrix (movie), Moral Technology, Generation Z, Coursera, Gate...

A few basketball inspired thoughts on whether following your gut is better than planning an elaborate strategy.

Abbey Lovett is a soon to be Praxis participant who's always experimenting and believes entrepreneurship is more important for kids than academic subjects. She had a lemonade stand with employees at age of nine and she hasn't stopped. We discuss her education, the importance of debate, why her entrepreneurship camp failed, and how she made the decision to apply for Praxis.

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My family and I just moved to a new house and it's been a surprisingly hard adjustment. TK and I discuss how to handle moving, change, grief, and heartache, as well as what a sense of space means and how humans interact with light and their built environments. Mentioned in the episode: Christopher Alexander, Too Many Dirty Dishes, Tim Ferriss, Peter Thiel, Aslan, In Defense of Metaphor in Science...

We live at a time when artificial intelligence is booming and major breakthroughs are happening, with a lot of people thinking about what is coming and how will it impact society. Robin Hanson is an economics professor at GMU with a background that ranges from philosophy, to physics and computer research. He joins me today to talk about his book ‘The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule...

Today we discuss my threatening letter from the municipal business license office, TK's appearance on the Tom Woods show and some critical comments he received, whether believing in your own power is delusional, why wishful thinking is the source of all the good stuff, why faith is not the absence of logic but a remembrance of it, whether coding is a skill every will need or no one will need, old-...

A young tech company builds software for small businesses. It employs around 10-15 people and is currently hiring. That is a hypothetical situation which myself and Daniel Myers go through in this episode of the podcast, with me being the recruiter and Daniel a young prospect. Some standard questions that appear during almost every interview are covered, along with some of the ones that I personal...

Did Malcolm Gladwell really get it wrong? People love to point out when a writer shares an idea that's oversimplified or could be misapplied if not interpreted wisely. Why don't they pick on the readers who are dumb enough to misinterpret it instead? Do ideas come first and bring about changes in technology and social institutions or do those changes come first and bring about new ideas? What does...

Most people see traveling as something of a luxury, instead of an investment into discovering different places and people. Most importantly traveling is an investment into discovering yourself. Ryan and Amanda’s first trip together was just a great excursion, but after completing it they realized that what they want is to wander the world. Experiences that they had in different countries, how they...

Today TK and I take questions in near real-time, submitted via Facebook while we were recording. Careful, this one's hot! How to not get stuck being a "wantrepreneur" How to test an idea before launch How to get better at quitting stuff you hate The psychological impact of entrepreneurship vs. FOMO Why Kobe is greater than LeBron Maps vs. territory Grad school Remote work cultures The 'corporatiza...

Something is rotten in the state of education, and Zak Slayback comes back to the show to talk about his upcoming book that deals with this: The End of School. Although his attitude to the current situation in education may sound a bit negative, his is quite optimistic about the future of education, if the paradigms finally change. We talk about where the idea for this book comes from, what he see...

Today we tackle a little bit of everything in this 'Fridays with TK episode', merged with 'Ask Isaac'. -The Valley of the Shadow of Debt and how to avoid it. -Are boys are girls treated differently? What does it mean? -How to sell unpopular ideas? Should you reform or revolutionize? -What does Kobe Bryant's 20 year tenure with a single team mean? -Can we survive without government? -What's up with...

*Spoiler Alert - listen after you've seen the movie!* My son NL (age 11) joins me again for a movie review. This time we enter the Marvel universe and take on the newest Avengers film, "Captain America Civil War".

*Forgive the echo in the audio. New microphone and live interview gave us some issues. Some forty episodes ago, comedy was just a side gig for Jeremy McLellan but now he is moving to make it his full-time job. On this episode we talk about corporate vs bar comedy and whether things that we like doing become less likable when people start doing them as their income sources. Reputation is king in th...