169. Talks at Bitcoin 2023

The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life discusses how fiat raises time preference, breaks the bond between effort & reward, inventivizes debt, erodes culture, & undermines families. Bitcoin, as hard money, restores savings, long-term vision, and civilization.You can buy the hardco ... Show More

Fiat's superior salability across space enabled global adoption, financed governments, & entrenched fractional-reserve banks, at the cost of losing value across time.You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS, where you can also find t ... Show More

The Fiat Standard Lecture 5: Fiat Balances shows how fiat’s unquantifiable, irreconcilable, tentative, revocable, and negative balances kill saving, reward debt, and lock in servitude, unlike Bitcoin’s precise, irrevocable private-key control.You can buy the hardcover, ebook or a ... Show More

Here’s the latest episode in our no-conceptual-holds-barred podcast series on From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI). Click here to access the full text of Seminar XVI.And guess what else I’m up to this week? Yep, you guessed it! I’m going to start thinking about maybe, just ma ... Show More

Here’s the latest episode in our podcast series on From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI). Click here to access the full text of Seminar XVI.And what are you up to next week? Watching our opening lecture on S18 and joining our first discussion of this tremendous seminar, I hope ... Show More

In this episode I tell you about an experience I had giving a business presentation and Q&A in Spanish and what I learnt from that. It was quite an eye-opening experience and I wanted to share it with you because it might be useful in your communications too. I also realised that ... Show More

This week I'm doing something new and analysing a recent business news article. I highlight  some really interesting vocabulary that will be useful to help you understand what on earth they are talking about as well as picking out important grammar points to make you aware of com ... Show More

Here’s the latest episode in our podcast series on From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI). Click here to access the full text of Seminar XVI.And what are you up to next week? Reading Seminar XVIII with us, I hope! Click here to learn more and register for the series! This is a ... Show More

Here’s the final episode in our podcast series on Seminar XI, along with two of the diagrams we discussed in the original session — the second of which, I believe, is crucial for understanding how Lacan concludes this pivotal seminar.If you’d like to access the complete series on ... Show More

Yonah Weiss does a deep dive on cost segregation. As business director at Madison SPECS, a national cost segregation leader, he’s assisted clients in saving hundreds of millions of dollars on taxes through cost segregation. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:00:00 - Intro08:02 - What ... Show More

From the crypto crash to painfully high inflation to everyone’s starting to travel again to work from home here to stay. In this episode, I’m sharing the biggest money lessons from 2022, my opinion of course, and how they can help you think differently about your money in 2023. L ... Show More

And once again, a semester of The Work Seminar comes to an end. We’ll return with Season 4 after the break. In the meantime, here’s hoping you’ve learned as much from these conversations as we have. See you back here in 2023. Don’t be a stranger in between seasonsSend your questi ... Show More