Which self-help techniques actually work? Spencer Greenberg, the mathematician behind Clearer Thinking and the psychology research organization Spark Wave, went through more than a hundred self-help books with clinical psychologist Jeremy Stevenson to find out. The result is their book, The 12 Levers: The Complete Psychological Toolkit for Improving Your…
"I wanted to use a style that was unpretentious and that was direct." Author Ed William on the negative narratives surrounding young men today, why flawless superheroes make terrible role models, and how he wrote the biography of David Rhoiney for readers who hate pretension. IN THIS SHORT ● Ed…
“He’s not a superhero, he’s not perfect... he just does it anyway.” Ed William, author of No One’s Coming to Save You, on Dr. David Rhoiney: a Naval Academy athlete, cryptologist, and surgeon, and the one trait Ed says sets him apart. IN THIS SHORT ● The resume: Division I…
Pre-order No One’s Coming to Save You today: https://infinitebooks.com/products/no-ones-coming-to-save-you David Rhoiney was five when his father walked out, forcing David to become the “man of the house.” Compton, Oakland, Long Beach: no matter where they turned, fear and hunger waited. Long nights in the homeless shelter. Drive-by shootings. Strangers in…
“The fact that not everyone likes you is a good thing, because it means that you have enough of a personality that people can react against that.” Emma Camp, senior newsletter editor at WSJ Free Expression, on why accepting that you are not everyone’s cup of tea is how you…
“If we’ve done it before, then we can use those same tools to do it again.” Emma Camp, senior newsletter editor at WSJ Free Expression, on why she is optimistic about free markets and the three things she credits for the fall in extreme poverty: free markets, technological innovation, and…
Why is Gen Z dating less and spending more time alone? Emma Camp, senior newsletter editor at The Wall Street Journal's Free Expression, calls it social risk aversion: the fear of being rejected, judged, or seen as cringe. She is writing a book of essays on it, due from Ballantine…
"Ask ChatGPT or Claude or Grok to suggest the best SPF sunscreen... the chances are pretty good it's going to be CeraVe." Julie Fredrickson, Managing Partner of Chaotic Capital, on why AI chatbots repeat what user forums say, and why human-written data like Reddit's is now so valuable. IN THIS…
"If we don't price it, we can't sell it." Julie Fredrickson, Managing Partner of Chaotic Capital, on why AI compute has been subsidized, why it reminds her of early Uber, and why she thinks the industry will probably need real spot prices for compute. IN THIS SHORT - Julie says…
"The internet in Europe looks very different than the internet in America." Julie Fredrickson, Managing Partner of Chaotic Capital, on how the internet is splitting by region, and why so much of the world's knowledge still isn't online, machine-readable, or open to everyone. IN THIS SHORT - Europe, America, Russia,…
Julie Fredrickson, Managing Partner of Chaotic Capital, thinks there is a good chance that verified human data becomes one of the most valuable assets online as AI agents read more of the web than people do. She also advocated for Montana's Right to Compute Act, the first state law protecting…
"Someday I'll be able to spin the globe, and every little part of the world will feel like home." Derek Sivers on the vision he had at almost 40. After 40 years in the US, Derek decided to spend the next 40 abroad. He plans to move to increasingly difficult…
When does a parent stop managing and start advising? Derek Sivers is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. His books include How to Live, Useful Not True, Hell Yeah or No, and Anything You Want. This clip is from his full conversation with Jim O'Shaughnessy on Infinite Loops. KEY INSIGHTS -…
Why does unexpected pain hit the hardest? Derek Sivers on the core idea of the Pursue Pain chapter in his book How to Live. Derek cut a full paragraph down, sentence by sentence, until only the essential words were left: "Pain's power relies on surprise. If you expect it, it's…
Derek Sivers said no to every podcast request for more than a year. This is the one he said yes to, three years after his last conversation with Jim O'Shaughnessy. Derek talks about raising a son, why he moves countries on purpose and plans to live in Bangalore and Shanghai…
How do you label ink inside a scroll that has never been opened? Dr. Brent Seales on how roughly 2,000 Vesuvius Challenge competitors solved it. Competitors ran a basic machine learning model on a virtually opened section, spotted a few letters, and used them as new labels. Each round exposed…
An X-ray shows what is inside a sealed scroll, the same way it does inside a human body. Dr. Brent Seales explains why that scan is only the starting point, and what virtual unwrapping actually does with it. The scan gives a model of everything inside without opening anything. But…
Dr. Brent Seales spent decades trying to read a book that cannot be opened. This summer his team showed they can unwrap and read a complete scroll, and presented results from three, without unrolling a single one. The Herculaneum library is the only library from classical antiquity that survived. Mount…
How do you get an NBA coaching staff to actually use advanced analytics? Former Phoenix Suns Assistant GM Ryan Resch explains how machine learning solved the communication gap by tying optical tracking data directly to game film. Instead of needing technical coding skills to decipher player coordinates, front offices can…
Ryan Resch breaks down the reality of AI adoption in sports and enterprise in 2026. Organizations that win with AI don't treat it as a novel tech stack. They treat it strictly as operations transformation. True ROI comes down to ingesting massive data streams, synthesizing the information rapidly, and executing…
Should an NBA team tank? Former Phoenix Suns Assistant GM Ryan Resch says ownership groups can now ask AI to model that decision first. Ryan hopes that AI brings sports back to deeper questions and more novel insights, the kind teams could not afford to chase before. KEY INSIGHTS -…
Ryan Resch, former Assistant General Manager and VP of Basketball Operations for the Phoenix Suns, joins guest host Jimmy Soni to discuss how data changed the NBA, why the advantage fades when every team works from the same information, and what AI changes next. We explore his path from a…
Brian Chau, founder of Effort News, joins Infinite Loops to explore how AI could fundamentally reshape investigative journalism—not by writing articles, but by searching, analyzing, and connecting millions of legal, financial, and government records that humans could never examine manually. They discuss why traditional investigative journalism relies so heavily on…
Nat Eliason joins guest host Jimmy Soni to discuss Founders School, a new high school for entrepreneurs that guarantees students will generate $1 million in gross profit by graduation or get their tuition refunded. We explore how AI is changing what teenagers can build, why traditional entrepreneurship education falls short,…