Videos

"…unless you're a psychopath, you are not necessarily driven by hubris. You are driven by the weird and strange realization that anybody could do it." -- Anna Gat Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrSpO2-o6Q

Anna Gat on the falsification of "startup fridge-magnets" Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrSpO2-o6Q&t=0s

“...our generation is characterized by intellectual orphans, people with no tribes whatsoever, even if on paper on their CVs, you would think, 'oh, this person belongs here or there,' if you zoom in, you realize that's very complicated..." - Anna Gat Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrSpO2-o6Q

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 of Publishing event at the beautiful Pratt Mansion in NYC. O’Shaughnessy Ventures - https://www.osv.llc/ Interintellect - https://interintellect.com/ We’re bringing together established publishers, online writers, new publishing houses,…

“[S]o many people right now have problems that already have solutions and they just don't have a connection to the solution." -- Visakan Veerasamy Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TirISO_Y9Rs

"[W]hen people say things like, 'Why don't you run for politics?' It's like you're still thinking in the old way of organizing human behavior. Why do you need to be in political office to have power and influence?” Visakan Veerasamy explains what he learned from a Taylor Swift concert… Full…

"[P]ossibility is destabilizing, and people are uncomfortable with that." Here's Visakan Veerasamy on the inherent creativity of excuse-making… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TirISO_Y9Rs

"[W]e are constrained by our lack of imagination, and our imagination is constrained by our language. And if you're only using the same few words, then we only think the same few thoughts." -- Visakan Veerasamy Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TirISO_Y9Rs

The inimitable Visakan Veerasamy returns for a characteristically wide-ranging discussion… Important Links: - Visa's Website - https://visakanv.com/ - Visa's Twitter - https://twitter.com/visakanv?s=21&t=ALz31dMfSqUU5nqaDoW8Bg - Visa's Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@visakanv - Visa’s Previous Episode - https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/visakan-veerasamy-on-creativity-introspection-being-a-good-reply-guy-ep149/ - Visa’s Post-Episode Thread - https://x.com/visakanv/status/1768093226853114108?s=20 Show Notes: 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:48 Main podcast 0:01:09 Life as a…

“[Open-source] potentially does more to lift people out of poverty and thus promote peace than it does to still conflict. It's not zero-sum.” — Brendan McCord on the power of open-source software… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwe3uZYxxM

“What we're really interested now is philosophy to code. So we're interested in philosophical ideas [around] individual human agency, free speech, … nature of reason,…, and we want to translate those into open source software.” — Brendan McCord on the new Philosophy to Code Pipelines… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwe3uZYxxM

“the Man of System thinks that he can control society like a machine…[they] can be so self-satisfied that they think they control humans like they're pieces on a chess board…But the problem is the pieces have volition.” — Brendan McCord on the deterministic outlook of the Man of System archetype……

“What are the questions that Plato and Aristotle dealt with 2,500 years ago? How did they treat those questions?” — Brendan McCord on the truth-seeking nature of philosophy… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwe3uZYxxM

Brendan McCord is the founder of Cosmos Institute — a non-profit dedicated to exploring the intersection of AI and philosophy. (https://cosmosinstitute.substack.com/) Brendan joins the show to discuss Cosmos’ origins, the pursuit of philosophy as a technologist, the different schools of thought in AI, complex adaptive systems and MUCH more! Important…

"[T]here are things you can do that structurally increase your luck surface area on a fundamental level..." -- Alex Komoroske Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLNwZvekes

We'll be releasing the next Great Reshuffle Video: The Future of Work in the next couple of weeks. Here's a sneak peek at one of the smaller segments on how to prepare for the future of Work

"[T]he mundane bullshit will cover every square inch you give it." Here's Alex Komoroske on finding the boldness to escape busyness… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLNwZvekes

"I really believe that we have maxims like we have because they have been compressed, compressed, compressed, all across human time." -- Jim and Alex Komoroske discuss the 'Hallmark Card Fallacy’… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLNwZvekes

"So many people, I think, are driven by this insecurity of, 'People will know I'm dumb or will know I don't know what I'm doing.' And there's something so liberating in saying, 'Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing!' I don't think any of us do really." -- Alex…

Alex Komoroske has spent his career studying, writing about, and working in complex adaptive systems. He has published multiple essays on topics like Schelling points in organizations, why debate should be collaborative, and how to ensure resilient growth in harsh environments. Alex has also worked as a product manager and…

Why do business and investing experts read so widely? Cedric Chin explains… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA

"Klein says that experts who become great... learn quite early on that every time they update something, they need to stop, take a step back and say, 'what else does this mean that I need to reevaluate?'" Here's Cedric Chin on how to avoid cognitive dissonance… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA

“At some point, if you do well in business enough, your company throws off cash, and how you allocate that capital actually matters." Cedric Chin explains why business success eventually requires an investor mindset… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA

“[Y]ou should continue to spend energy questioning the mistakes that you're making, even if you're making very little mistakes." Here's Cedric Chin on the relationship between mistakes and greatness… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA