Videos

July 22, 2025

Why Journals Are Better Than Diaries

“Most people journal as if it’s a diary, and there’s a distinction between the two…” ⁦⁦ Lawrence Yeo explains... 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Journal #Productivity #diary

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July 21, 2025

Don't Chase Status. Chase Mastery.

"Mastery really is [...] you're just trying to improve yourself. Comparisons are not made with other people, but only with prior versions of yourself." ~ Lawrence Yeo on chasing mastery vs chasing status. 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Mastery #Status

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July 20, 2025

Curiosity is Gratitude for Uncertainty

"Curiosity is ultimately being grateful that you don't know everything. It's this gratitude for uncertainty." ~ Lawrence Yeo 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Curiosity #Gratitude #Uncertainty

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July 19, 2025

The Paradox of Envy

"We envy the people that have the greatest potential to be close to us." ~ Lawrence Yeo 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Envy #Ambition

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July 17, 2025

Lawrence Yeo — The Inner Compass | Episode 275

Lawrence Yeo — writer, illustrator and author of “The Inner Compass” — joins the show to discuss the power of intuition in an uncertain world. We explore why embracing uncertainty leads to greater curiosity, how social conditioning pulls us away from our true north, why doing things for their own…

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July 1, 2025

The False Dichotomy

"The Foul Four are imposing rules that children cannot opt out of. That is key. They're not rules like you opt into the rules of football, baseball, or playing cards with your friends. There are rules to all of those games. But you opt in voluntarily and you opt out…

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June 30, 2025

The False Dichotomy

"I think one of the jarring things is people immediately jump to what is a false dichotomy between total control and neglect. So they immediately assume that what we're talking about is neglect. And that's simply not true. The point is, you can satisfy children's preferences, foster their interests, foster…

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June 29, 2025

The Childhood Inversion

"School is this Persona for the adults. I think kids get very, very good at learning to please other people. And, it's baked into the school experience. It's baked into the rules. The relationship with a rule-giver, a rule-enforcer, is a reason to appease and to please and to doubt…

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June 28, 2025

The Childhood Inversion

"I think we have childhood inverted, right? You, you don't get the freedom to explore your own interests and ideas until after childhood, when you have dependence and you have responsibilities. You have, you know, you're expected to be on a career track, right? You're in your 20s. You're supposed…

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June 26, 2025

Aaron Stupple & Logan Chipkin — The Sovereign Child | Episode 274

What if everything we think we know about raising children is not just wrong, but actively harmful? Aaron Stupple and Logan Chipkin, authors of "The Sovereign Child," join Infinite Loops to make a case so compelling and radical that it challenges the very foundation of modern parenting and education. From…

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June 24, 2025

Jhana Meditation

"About a year ago, I stumbled into this Twitter subculture of people that were obsessed with [a] style of advanced meditation that engenders strange, intensely altered states in your mind that are comparable to psychedelics..." ~ Nadia Asparouhova on the power of Jhana meditation Full video: https://youtu.be/NNT2oDu9wAw

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June 23, 2025

The Dynamics of Antimemes

"If everyone's just keeping their ideas to themselves in group chats... how do we continue to contribute to the civil public discourse and ensure that good ideas are making their way back out?" ~ Nadia Asparouhova explains the perils of Antimemes...

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June 22, 2025

Inoculating Against Bad Memes

"No one can come up with the perfect content moderation policy that solves all problems..." So how do we inoculate ourselves against mind-viruses and bad ideas? Nadia Asparouhova explores this issue... #vaccine #meme #Virus #internet #culture

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June 21, 2025

The Emergence of Supermemes

"Today we have ... lots of different super memes that people can sort of pledge their allegiance to... And so you have lots of these different competing talent ecosystems and competitions for mindshare." ~ Nadia Asparouhova on the emergence of Supermemes... #supermemes #memes #ecosystems #media #culture #war

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June 19, 2025

Nadia Asparouhova — An Antimemetic Rollercoaster | Episode 273

Nadia Asparouhova, author of "Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading," joins me for a fascinating exploration of why some ideas go viral while others—often the most important ones—resist transmission entirely. We dive into antimemes, Curtis Yarvin's journey from being canceled to becoming mainstream, St. Paul as history's ultimate memetic engineer,…

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June 17, 2025

Don't Judge Them by Their Clothes

Being on the street doesn’t make you dangerous. But how society treats you might. Israel Balogun shares why the real crime isn’t homelessness, it’s stigma. And what happens when kids are finally given the space to define themselves. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #fullvideo #onthestreet #balogun #criminaljustice #kids…

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June 16, 2025

You Don’t Have to Prove You’re Capable

People with disabilities are often expected to perform for acceptance. In this episode, we talk about why people with disabilities shouldn’t need to convince the world they’re capable. They just need tools, space, and the right to build. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #peoplewithdisability #peoplewithdisabilities #episode #makers #right #disabilities #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode

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June 15, 2025

How He Fought Exclusion

Imagine skipping breakfast because your school didn’t build an accessible bathroom. That was daily life for one student in a wheelchair. Just for the right to learn. Exploring the quiet cruelty of exclusion and the power of showing up anyway. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #showingup #showupanyway

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June 14, 2025

These Street Kids are Warriors

Akhin means a feraless warrior. In this episode, we hear how a local dialect became the backbone of a program that sees the value in what the streets taught- grit, courage, and inner fire. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #streets #grit #value #warrior

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June 12, 2025

Miyoba Hamuhuma & Israel Balogun — Grassroots Solutions for Africa’s Impoverished Youth Episode 272

I’m joined today by two remarkable men I met through the O’Shaughnessy Fellowships and Grants program. Israel Balogun was homeless and illiterate until the age of 22. Now, he leads a Nigerian youth rehabilitation nonprofit for street kids and is building a self-sustaining village for 200 out-of-school children with the…

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June 10, 2025

Meditating on Impossible Things

"...the act of meditating on some of these [japanese koans] actually can help to liberate us from this very rigid linear way that we tend to approach information." Dr. Diane on mind-expanding concepts... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU

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June 9, 2025

Meditation and Focus

"The first thing is for people to believe it's possible. And then the second thing is to learn how to shift your awareness to gain mastery over where you put your awareness." Dr. Diane on the power of focus...

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June 8, 2025

What is Consciousness?

Do we even have a definition of consciousness? Dr. Diane explores a new way to understand this problem... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU

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June 7, 2025

Discovering Savants

"They couldn't even do basic arithmetic. And yet at the same time, they could generate prime numbers in six digits." Dr. Diane recounts a case of Oliver Sacks that got her interested in studying savants... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU

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