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Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor, having Founded AngelList in 2007 (amongst other companies). He’s a prominent Silicon Valley figure who burst onto the global scene in the last couple of years, particularly famous for his Tweet storm ‘How To Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)’ and short-form podcast  Naval. Today we unpack his thoughts around education, life and le...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we finish off the series with a powerful final reflection on...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. In this episode we relate some of the final key ideas he had about...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we unpack why we should let some people quit the game, and w...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today is the second'Th of two episodes that I'll never forget, unp...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today is the first of two episodes that I'll never forget, unpacki...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we unpack the pockets of society that cultivate a 'practiced...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we finish off the 5 reasons education is creating 'overgrown...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we begin unpacking, thanks to his insights, how education cr...

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. " It’s all graded and what we do is put the child into the corrido...

The final episode on Peter Thiel unpacks how principles behind the Thiel Fellowship can be applied to your life, especially focusing on 1) innovation, 2) networks and people over information Full blog post on the Thiel Fellowship: https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/5-things-i-love-about-the-thiel-fellowship/ Sign up to The Doorman . One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast epi...

We're getting to the end of our series on legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, and discussing the education solution he's driving. It's called 'The Thiel Fellowship', and it gives 20 young people each year $100,000 to quit college and work on their own ideas. As a recap, we've been talking about Thiel since episode 195. See corresponding blog post on the takeaways: https://withjoewehbe...

We continue to unpack Peter Thiel’s book ‘Zero to One’, as Part II continuing on from yesterday. This is part of a mini-series on Peter Thiel from episodes 195-202. I also really recommend the actual book itself but the ideas are also unpacked in this corresponding blog post: https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/11-big-takeaways-from-peter-thiels-book-zero-to-one/ Sign up to The Doorman . One email...

Welcome back to our mini-series on Peter Thiel's thoughts on education, career and learning. Today we begin one of two episodes unpacking his phenomenal 2014 book Zero to One which again, funnily enough, is about innovation and business rather than education. So why are we unpacking it? Because this is the real world outcome that education should drive, not education for education's sake. Thiel ha...

A bit of a tangent today but building on themes central to Peter Thiel, especially the concept of a monopoly – why a pernicious one now exists in education and how it constrains thinking, especially self-directed/independent thinking and the ability for people to think about alternatives. Luke and Joe also talk about homeschooling models and why they're so often handicapped by the accreditation sy...

Welcome to our third of eight episode on Peter Thiel's thoughts applied to learning, career and education. Quite a controversial one today linking college to an atheistic church... what's he getting at?  There’s a priestly/professorial class that doesn’t do much You have to get a degree or you ‘go to hell’ — it’s your saving grace in this society. My thoughts: Religion fills the huge void in...

This mini-series on Peter Thiel's thinking on education, career and learning began at episode 195 and continues to 202! This episode has a corresponding blog post below with the 5 reasons to explain our 'education bubble' and the risks we face as a society. You can also sign up down the bottom for the newsletter which links to all episodes released that week and the biggest takeaway from the podca...

Our next thought leader to review is Peter Thiel . Following on from our episodes on Nassim Taleb (181-194) the next modern thinker we're unpacking is PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel, the remarkable thinker, investor and contrarian. He has some fascinating thoughts about education and innovation – in this first of eight episodes on Thiel (195-202) we unpack his ideas on 'what sort of product is educ...

Episode #194 of the With Joe Wehbe Podcast wraps up the series on Nassim Taleb (181-194). Don’t be overwhelmed — fine to go over it, I spent a month studying his book and I still had to leave stuff out of this mini-series! Big takeaway, think like an investor, not an academic. Risk-taking is more important than knowledge, will help you learn more, life is random and people overestimate their contr...

Never heard of the term ‘optionality’? Don’t worry, few people have, but I argue it’s one of the most applicable of Nassim Taleb’s ideas to career, especially unconventional careers. We do a full deconstruction in this episode and I give Luke examples on how to implement it. It’s particularly powerful because, as Taleb says, it overcomes the need for intelligence, smarts, cognitive ability ‘and al...

Why might knowledge be over-valued? Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers. Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series. https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/ Sign up to The Doorman ....

Taleb argues that medicine took more lives than it saved up until Penicillin was invented! He also thinks that the Bill Gates Foundation is repeating mistakes made by Mao Zedong! How can you avoid the mistakes typically made by the super intelligent experts!? Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning,...

What’s a loser? Are you one? Well, according to Taleb I’m a loser most days of the year. In this episode, we talk about overcoming the inclination to whinge and blame others for our failings, as well as the concept of ethics and why it is an ingredient that is missing from everyday life. Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the applicat...

How do you ‘understand things by layers’ and apply an investor’s mindset to the dynamics of your own life? Is it easier to micro-bullshit, or macro-bullshit? Is it safer to invest in one restaurant, or the whole restaurant industry? All this and more as we continue to apply the ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his book Antifragile to your career, learning and education. Starting from episode 181...

Nassim Taleb uses the metaphor of a black swan to explain highly significant, unpredictable events in nature — the sort which make all the difference. Yet we never worry about these things! Instead, we spend all our time focusing on much smaller problems. In this episode we unpack the right mindset to have when encountering uncertain events, and how to use uncertainty to make you stronger, rather...