Arjun Khemani Podcast
Episodes
Sean Bowe and Jack Grigg: Encrypted Money at Planetary Scale
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Bowe and Jack Grigg aka str4d are both cryptographic engineers working on the Zcash protocol. Sean’s latest project is Tachyon, intended to bri...
Samo Burja: Building an Immortal Society
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My conversation with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis. He chairs the editorial board of Palladium Magazine.Topics we discuss are well captured...
Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart: Unstoppable Private Money
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My conversation with Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart on unstoppable private money.Zooko Wilcox is a legendary cypherpunk and one of the founders of Zcas...
Ethan Thornton: The Future of Warfare
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My conversation with Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Lis...
Peter Boghossian: Moral Relativism and The Future of The West
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My conversation with philosopher and author Peter Boghossian.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen...
Zooko, Nate Wilcox, and Sean Bowe: Zcash
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My conversation with Zooko, Nate Wilcox, and Sean Bowe about the Zcash protocol.Zooko is a cypherpunk who co-founded Zcash along with his brother, Nat...
Naval Ravikant: The Beginning of Infinity
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My conversation with Naval Ravikant. Enjoy!Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Click here to support my work.Timestamps0:00 - T...
David Deutsch: The Era of Man, Popper, and Western Civilization
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Deutsch in his lovely garden in Oxford a few months ago. Here’s our conversation.Topics we discuss are...
#35 – Julian Barbour and Samuel Kuypers: The Nature of Time
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Barbour is a renowned physicist known for his groundbreaking work on the nature of time. In his influential books, The End of Time and The Janu...
#34 – Nat Eliason: Crypto Confidential, Writing, and The Future of Work
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to support my work. You can also send me bitcoin to this address.Nat Eliason is a writer and crypto insider with a wildly popular newslette...
#33 – Johan Norberg: Capitalism, Degrowth, and Elon Musk
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history. He is the a...
#32 – Riva Tez: Anarchy, Beauty, and Longevity
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Riva Tez is a philosopher, writer, and venture capitalist. She’s the author of the blog Hard to Write.Topics we discuss are well captured by the tim...
#31 – Nicole Behnam: Leveraging Social Media, Building Cults, and Parenting
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Behnam is a founder and journalist. She is the creator of Beyond The Interview where she’s interviewed people like Chris Voss, Konstantin Kis...
#30 – Niklas Anzinger: Longevity, Crypto, and Network States
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Niklas Anzinger is the founder of Infinita VC and Vitalia. He is also the host of the Stranded Technologies Podcast.Topics we discuss are well capture...
#29 – Ashley St. Clair: Immigration Crisis, Free Speech, and Birth Control
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley St. Clair is the Operations Manager at Babylon Bee and author of the children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds. This interview was recorded on ...
#28 – Matthew Lysiak: Fiat Food, Bitcoin, and Fake Science
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It.Topics we discuss a...
#27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200 peo...
#26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Though...
#25 – David Deutsch: Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Deutsch is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantu...
#24 – Max More: Cryonics, Transhumanism, and The Morality of Progress
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you would like to support this podcast, click here.Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is cu...
#23 – Tom Hyde: Population, Immortality, Anarchism, and Gender
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you would like to support this podcast, click here.Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8Tom Hyde is a geologist with deg...
#22 – Per Bylund: Economic Illiteracy, Entrepreneurship, and The Primacy of Theory
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you would like to support this podcast, click here.Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8Per Bylund is an Associate Profe...
#21 – David D. Friedman: The Machinery of Freedom, Education, and India
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support this podcast: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniDavid D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist, author of ‘The Machinery of Freedom’, and...
#20 – Jim O'Shaughnessy: AI, Education, Media, and Living Forever
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support this podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniJim O’Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. He also ...
#19 – Logan Chipkin: Understanding Economics
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded on Airchat. Learn more at getairchat.com.Logan Chipkin is a writer. You can purchase his recently published fantasy novel, W...
#18 – Yaron Brook: Humans, Inequality and AI
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yaron Brook is an objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. He’s also the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute. Support the podcast at: https://...
#17 – Lulie Tanett: Epistemology in the Social Sciences, Mindfulness and Taking Children Seriously
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lulie Tanett is a writer and expositor of ideas of applied critical rationalism. If you enjoy this podcast, please consider supporting it at: https://...
#16 – Nat and Martha Sharpe: Alternative-Education, Making Movies and Doing Stuff
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nat and Martha are filmmakers. In February 2023, they won a fellowship through O’Shaughnessy Ventures to explore alternative education. Support thi...
#15 – Naval Ravikant and Brett Hall: Knowledge, Constraints, and Truth-Seeking Mechanisms
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Airchat: https://www.getairchat.comTIMESTAMPS0:24 - The nature of knowledge1:01- Constraints of progress6:31 - The finite speed of light is not a prob...
14 – Don Watkins: Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, Epistemology and Wealth
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End...
#13 – Danny Miranda: Creating Podcasts and The Future
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast where he’s interviewed people like Bryan Johnson, Morgan Housel, Gary Vaynerchuck, David Pere...
#12 – James Pierce: Perspective, Prescriptions, and Sincerity
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support this podcast using this link: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniJames Pierce is a writer, executive coach and a philosopher. TIMESTAMPS0:50 - How m...
#11 – David Perell: Writing and Education
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’d wish to support this podcast, click here.David Perell is a writer, podcaster and founder of the course Write of Passage. We talk about Davi...
#10 – Andrew Kirby: Hitting Financial Freedom At Age 22, Solving Problems and Happiness
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Kirby is a YouTuber with over 600,000 subscribers who became financially free at age 22 by synthesizing content on the Internet.We talk about t...
#9 – Chiara Marletto: Knowledge, Constraints and Good Explanations
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chiara is a quantum physicist and research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research interests are at the foundations of physics. ...
#8 – Charlie Jungheim: From Meditation to Mars
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Jungheim (aka Hermes of Reason) makes really cool videos about Critical Rationalism following the works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch. He’...
#7 – Michael Strong: Deschooling Society and The Future of Education
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Strong is the founder of a virtual school called The Socratic Experience, made for children aged 8-19 where they get a personalized and purpos...
#6 – Jason Crawford: Does Progress Make Us Any Happier?
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, ...
#5 – Chris Turner: Changing The Education System
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to Chris Turner. A tech entrepreneur turned education entrepreneur who founded Moonrise, a co-learning space for kids. Listen ...
#4 – Jay Topp: Dropping Out, Being a Digital Nomad and the Arctic Circle
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
TIMESTAMPS0:00 - Jay is one of the coolest people I’ve met1:56 - What’s wrong with the school system and how to escape it5:48 - Growing up in an e...
#3 – Aastha Jain: Should We Live Forever?
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Links* Aastha Jain* Live Longer World podcast* Feynman Kids Program* Blog post by Aastha: Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan ExtensionTimestamps1:05 - An im...
#2 – Sarah Fitz-Claridge: Taking Children Seriously, Fallibilism and the Growth of Knowledge
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This was a very fun conversation with Sarah on the manner in which children are generically raised and why that is not helpful, the importance of Taki...
#1 – Brett Hall: Knowledge, Evolutionary Psychology and Free Will
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brett's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToKTeacherBrett's blog: https://bretthall.orgBrett's podcast (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmP5H2rF...