Welcome to the eponymous the Volga podcast. The main topic that we started out on was Timeless principles of wealth creation. And then we've been touching a little bit on internal happiness and peace and well-being but I am first and foremost a student of Science and failed physicist, if you will, I love physics. I wanted to pursue it but I never felt I was going to be great at it and I was pulled into more technology which is applied science nevertheless. I have remained a student of science have remained fascinated by it and all of my real heroes are scientist because I believe that
at science is the engine that pulls Humanity forward. I've been lucky to live in an age where scientific progress and technological progress seem not likely but inevitable so we've gotten used to this idea that life always gets better despite all the complaining that goes on about how productivity growth is stagnant. The reality is anyone who owns a smartphone or drives a car or even lives in a house has seen technology to improve their quality of life over and over again, we take
this progress for granted and it's thanks to
So I continue to be fascinated by
science and to
me science is also the study of Truth. What do we know to be true? How do we know something to be true? And as I get older I find myself incapable
of having attention span for anything which
is not steeped in truth. So the background on this particular podcast series is I thought I knew a lot about science and there was a lot about science that I took for granted such as what scientific theory is and how scientific theories are formed. Most of us have a
A guy idea of it and it can range from some people think science is what scientists do which has a definitional problem as it what is a scientist and other people think we'll Sciences making falsifiable or
testable predictions and maybe that's closer to it. And then sometimes people say what's the scientific method and what is the scientific method and then they start describing
their junior high school
chemistry experiment and
lose the trail after that especially in these days where we were told to quote-unquote believe in science, which is an
oxymoron people.
act science but they don't understand what science
is the idea of what science is is getting hijacked sometimes by well-meaning people who want to convince you of the science and sometimes by not so well-meaning people who just want to influence the way that you think and feel and act
