Interview on the Rowshan Podcast

My conversation with my friend Mehran Rowshan on the Rowshan Podcast.

We discussed why I dropped out of school in 7th grade and dropped in on university, what school actually teaches children and why I homeschool my own, why mathematical genius is mostly an illusion, how to teach yourself anything, how Dubai changed my mind, and what happens to everything you have already told an AI.

Chapters

02:00 Coding at 11 and Early Digital Currencies
04:00 Who is Arto? Technology, Startups, and Moving to Dubai
05:05 Why Dubai? Perspectives on Peace, Safety, and Growth
10:05 The Miracle of Desalination and Overcoming Resource Scarcity
18:40 Freedom, Women’s Safety, and Dispelling Western Myths
21:40 Great Man Theory of History
26:40 Nationalism, Global Immigration, and Finding Home
29:26 Dropping Out of School at 7th Grade: The Bureaucracy Hack
34:50 Classical Education, Project-Based Learning, and Elon Musk’s School
39:30 The Flaws of Modern Schooling: Obedience vs. True Intelligence
48:45 The Importance of Reading History and the Illusion of Mathematical Genius
55:35 AI Privacy, Chat Logs, and Separating Sci-Fi Myths from Reality
1:07:30 Final Thoughts