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Infinite Loops
Every Thursday, join Jim O'Shaughnessy and his favorite people as they arm you with the tools & fresh perspectives required to upgrade your HumanOS and thrive in our messy, probabilistic world. Visit our Substack at newsletter.osv.llc for full transcripts, highlights, weekly doses of timeless wisdom, and a bounty of other goodies designed to make you go, "Hmm that's interesting!"
Episodes
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Matthew Ball — Into The Metaverse (EP.225)
Matthew Ball is the CEO of Epyllion, which makes angel investments, provides advisory services, and produces television, films, and video games. He's also a…
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Nat Eliason — Crazy, Crypto, Confidential (EP.224)
Nat Eliason is a writer with a keen interest in writing about challenging and revealing things. His debut book, Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing…
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Noor Siddiqui — A Thiel Fellow's Guide to Having Healthy Babies (EP.223)
Noor Siddiqui is currently building Orchid, a reproductive technology company that measures genetic predisposition to disease and provides embryo screening for…
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The Fourth Way - Mastering The Self (EP.222)
The Fourth Way is a pseudonymously run Youtube channel and Twitter page dedicated to the path of psychological and spiritual growth and self-improvement. Built…
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Mona Sobhani — A Neuroscientist's Journey From Materialism to Beyond (EP.221)
Mona Sobhani, Ph.D. is a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and author. In 2022 she published her first book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A…
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Ellen Fishbein — Make Art, Not Noise (EP. 220)
Described by David Perell as "like Rick Rubin for writing," Ellen Fishbein is an author and writing coach and the founder of Altamira Studio, an independent…
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John A. Paulos — Avoiding Innumeracy (EP. 219)
Professor, Mathematician and Writer John A. Paulos joins the show to discuss math education, the power of puzzles, cognitive biases, and MUCH more! Important…
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Chris Wilcha — Flipside (EP.218)
Chris Wilcha is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and commercial director. His latest film, Flipside, which is co-executive produced by Jim and presented…
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Bridget Phetasy — Comedy is Dead, Long Live Comedy (EP.217)
"PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company. We just want to make you laugh while the world burns." Bridget Phetasy is an entrepreneur, writer, podcast host…
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Porter Braswell — Building the Future of Leadership (EP.216)
Porter Braswell is the Founder and CEO of 2045 Studio, an exclusive network for accomplished professionals of color. Porter is also the Co-founder and…
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Grant Mitchell — The Potential of AI Drug Repurposing
Grant Mitchell is a seasoned entrepreneur, operator, and investor in the areas of health, technology, and machine learning. He is currently the co-founder and…
Infinite LoopsJimmy Soni — The Courage of Creative Risk (EP.214)
Author and friend-of-the-show Jimmy Soni returns to discuss the future of publishing, the changing world of book marketing, the courage of creative risk, and…
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Arjun Khemani — The Hunt for Better Problems (EP. 213)
Arjun Khemani is a 17-year-old writer and podcaster who dropped out of high school to help lead support at Airchat, the social network co-founded by Naval…
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Eddy Elfenbein — On Crossing Wall Street (EP. 212)
Eddy Elfenbein is an OG finance blogger, ETF manager, and FinTwit legend, with over 25 years of experience working in and around Wall Street. Eddy joins the…
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Anna Gát — We Digress (EP. 211)
Friend-of-the-show Anna Gát returns to discuss… well… pretty much everything! On April 13th, O'Shaughnessy Ventures and Interintellect are co-hosting a Future…
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Visakan Veerasamy — Expanding Our Possibility-Space (EP. 210)
The inimitable Visakan Veerasamy returns for a characteristically wide-ranging discussion… Important Links: Visa's Website Visa's Twitter Visa's Youtube Visa's…
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Brendan McCord — AI and the Philosophy of Technology
Brendan McCord is the founder of Cosmos Institute — a non-profit dedicated to exploring the intersection of AI and philosophy. Brendan joins the show to…
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Alex Komoroske — Complex Adaptivity All The Way Down (EP. 208)
Alex Komoroske has spent his career studying, writing about, and working in complex adaptive systems. He has published multiple essays on topics like Schelling…
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Cedric Chin — Accelerating Business Expertise (EP. 207)
Cedric Chin is a writer, researcher and operator whose Commoncog newsletter is dedicated to finding useful, practical ways to accelerate business expertise. He…
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Devon Eriksen — Theft of Fire (EP. 206)
Devon Eriksen always wanted to be a writer. As a child, he was persuaded to abandon his aspirations in favor of a career in software engineering. Two decades…
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Jacqueline Novogratz - Manifesto for a Moral Revolution
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder of Acumen, a nonprofit impact investment fund "changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies…
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Rupert Sheldrake — On Scientism, Morphic Resonance and the Extended Mind (EP. 204)
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of 9 books and over 100 scientific papers. A critic of what he sees as the scientific establishment's dogmatic…
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Rob Henderson — Troubled (EP. 203)
Friend-of-the-show Rob Henderson returns to discuss his powerful, moving and important debut book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class…
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Alec Stapp — Progress is a Policy Choice (EP. 202)
Alec Stapp is the co-founder of the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan innovation policy think tank aiming to "accelerate scientific, technological and…
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Rohit Krishnan — Demystifying AI (EP. 201)
Essayist, tinkerer, and author Rohit Krishnan returns to discuss his book, Building God: Demystifying AI for Decision Makers. Important Links: Strange Loop…
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Jim O'Shaughnessy — Turning the Tables (EP. 200)
For this milestone 200th (yes, TWO HUNDREDTH) episode of Infinite Loops, regular guest and Infinite Media head Liberty RPF joins writer & researcher Ed William…
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Lisa Wehden and Minn Kim — America is Open For Business (EP.199)
Lisa Wehden and Minn Kim are the founders of Plymouth Street, which guides talented individuals through the US immigration process. Its aim is to accelerate…
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Alice Albrecht — On Creativity, Connection & Convergence (EP.198)
Alice Albrecht is the founder and CEO of re:collect, a company dedicated to "enhancing human intelligence by augmenting memory, perception, and synthesis…
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Guy Spier — Wealth, Wisdom & Enlightenment (EP.197)
Guy Spier runs the Aquamarine Fund, an "investment partnership closely modeled on the original Buffet Partnerships." He is also a podcast host, YouTube…
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Jared Dillian — How To Live a Stress-Free Financial Life (EP.196)
Jared Dillian is a writer, strategist, financial expert, public speaker, and author of four books, including No Worries: How To Live a Stress-Free Financial…
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George Mack — The Game of Life (EP.195)
Writer, marketer, entrepreneur, and master of mental models, George Mack, returns to discuss the top 0.1% of ideas he's ever come across, from treating life as…
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Eric Jorgenson — on Publishing, Progress & Reinventing the Playbook (EP.194)
Eric Jorgenson is (deep breath) an author, investor, writer, podcast host, online course creator, and the CEO of Scribe Media (breathe out). He joins the show…
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Arkady Kulik — Bridging Science & Entrepreneurship (EP.193)
Arkady Kulik is a founding partner of rpv, a deep tech venture fund that aims to "drive tangible advancements in the well-being of humankind" by focusing on…
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Alex Lieberman — On Voice, Unicorns & Intrinsic Motivation (EP.192)
Alex Lieberman is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Morning Brew, the cofounder of Storyarb and the host of 60 Second Startup & Founder's Journal. Alex…
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Venkatesh Rao & Tim Beiko — The Summer of Protocols
Tim Beiko, who runs the core protocol meetings for Ethereum, teams up with writer and consultant Venkatesh Rao to discuss their "Summer of Protocols" research…
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Will Schoder — On Curation, Consumption & Compression (EP.190)
Will Schoder is a video essayist who explores a diverse range of topics including psychology, meaning, re-enchantment, metamodernism, mortality, and satire…
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Ben Westhoff — Fentanyl, Inc. (EP.189)
Ben Westhoff is a best-selling investigative journalist focusing on culture, drugs, and poverty. Ben's book Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Created the…
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Roon — On Shape Rotators, AGI & Tenet (EP.188)
AI researcher, memelord extraordinaire, and techno-optimist Roon joins the show to discuss coming up with the shape rotator vs. wordcel meme, what an AGI world…
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Katherine Dee — On Attention, Astroturfing and the Nostalgia Trap (EP.187)
Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet culture reporter. A contributor to publications such as UnHerd, Tablet, and Blaze Media, she is also the…
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Derek Sivers (Part Two) — Just Do The Thing [BONUS EPISODE] (EP.186)
The inimitable Derek Sivers returns for Part Two of our conversation. Important Links: Part One Website Twitter Still Too Soon to Tell & Other Songs Tech…
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Derek Sivers (Part One) — How to Become a Picasso [BONUS EPISODE] (EP.185)
Over the years, Derek Sivers has been a musician, circus performer, computer programmer, author, public speaker, and entrepreneur. In the 2000s, he sold his…
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John Fio — The Wizard & The Warrior (EP.184)
John Fio is an inventor and entrepreneur who has bootstrapped four products that have collectively generated hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. He…
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James Pethokoukis — The Conservative Futurist (EP.183)
James Pethokoukis is a policy analyst, official CNBC contributor, and Dewitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the creator and…
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Bojan Tunguz — From Physicist to Grandmaster (EP.182)
Bojan Tunguz is a senior systems software engineer at NVIDIA, quadruple Kaggle grandmaster, former top 10 Amazon reviewer, and former physicist. He joins the…
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Julie Fredrickson — "Circumstances change. Humanity doesn't. Plan accordingly." (EP.181)
Julie Fredrickson is a former founder and the Managing Partner of Chaotic Capital, an "early stage fund for companies that adapt our lives and systems to the…
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Danny Miranda — Attracted to the Light (EP.180)
Danny Miranda's ambition is to sell out Madison Square Gardens for a live edition of his podcast. Now, on episode 402 (and counting), he is getting closer to…
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Dror Poleg — The Future of Work
Dror Poleg is an author, speaker, and researcher investigating technology's impact on the way people work, live, and invest. He joins us to discuss the…
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Trung Phan & Rob Henderson — Apocalypse Now (EP.178)
Our previous episode with Trung & Rob included the bombshell reveal that Rob had never watched Apocalypse Now. Nearly one year later, Rob and Trung make their…
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Frederik Gieschen — On Agility, Agreeableness, Alchemy & the Arena
"Who is America's best-known banker? That would be Jamie Dimon. But who is the richest? That would be Andy Beal, with an estimated net worth of $9 billion."…
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Dr. Julie Gurner — Ultra Successful (EP.176)
Dr. Julie Gurner is a doctor of psychology and executive performance coach to top percentile executives, primarily in finance and technology. She is also the…
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Todd Goodwin — "Revelation is not Resolution" (EP.175)
Board Certified hypnotist & Goodwin Hypnosis founder Todd Goodwin joins us for his second appearance to discuss why we should treat the mind like a garden, why…
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Luca Dellanna — On Survival, Signals & Success (EP.174)
Why is hard work a form of laziness? Why should we be wary of short-term success? How can imagining parallel worlds help us make better decisions? Author…
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Luca Dellanna — On Survival, Signals & Success (EP.174)
Why is hard work a form of laziness? Why should we be wary of short-term success? How can imagining parallel worlds help us make better decisions? Author…
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Jack Butcher — Reality is the Boss (EP.173)
Designer, entrepreneur and Visualize Value founder Jack Butcher joins us for his second appearance on the show to discuss how to get closer to reality, the…
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Dan Runcie — The Future of Music (EP.172)
Dan Runcie is the Founder of Trapital, a company focused on music, media, and entertainment. Trapital's output includes a podcast, weekly newsletter, and…
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Dr. William Zeng — Towards a Quantum Future (EP.171)
Dr. William Zeng is founder and President of the Unitary Fund, a non-profit dedicated to developing the quantum ecosystem to benefit the most people. He…
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Jack Raines — The Authentic Path (EP.170)
Jack Raines is an online writer and LinkedIn provocateur, whose newsletter Young Money has already amassed 30,000 readers. Jack joins the show to discuss the…
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Richard Craib — How to Open Source Finance (EP.169)
Richard Craib is the Founder & CEO of Numerai, a new kind of hedge fund where data scientists around the world collaborate to predict equity returns using…
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Brian Roemmele - The Wisdom Keeper (EP.168)
The scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker, and doer Brian Roemmele joins us for his second Infinite Loops appearance to discuss the decline of…
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Dr. Pippa Malmgren — Why Leadership Has Gone Wrong (EP.167)
Dr. Pippa Malmgren is an economist, founder, keynote speaker & award-winning author. She served President George W. Bush as Special Assistant to the President…