Videos

May 8, 2025

Tiago Forte — Unlocking the Power of the Annual Review | Episode 267

I’ve said before that one of the best parts of hosting Infinite Loops is the chance to connect with people who consistently make me think differently — and few do that quite like Tiago Forte. Tiago Forte joins Infinite Loops for the first time, and within minutes we closed the…

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May 6, 2025

The Power of Personal Agency

Blaming your brain, your past, your luck might feel good but only for a moment. Having an internal locus of control can go a long way. Nir Eyal talks about choosing agency and how it can change your life. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHn8c3IBZ8

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May 5, 2025

Your AI Jiminy Cricket

When AI becomes your conscience, keeps you in check and sounds like you? ~ Nir Eyal envisions an AI designed not to control you, but to help you become who you want to be. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHn8c3IBZ8

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May 4, 2025

The Myth of the Teenage Brain

'Rebellious teenager' may be a modern invention. Teenagers are not wild, just over-controlled. Nir Eyal uncovers the hidden roots of teenage defiance... Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHn8c3IBZ8

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May 3, 2025

Technology DOESN'T hijack your brain

You’re not being hijacked by tech. You make the conscious choice of playing Candy Crush. @nireyal dismantles the lazy narrative that tech is doing this to us.

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May 1, 2025

Nir Eyal — The Psychology of Addictive Products | Episode 266

Author, speaker, founder, investor and behavioral design maestro Nir Eyal joins me for his second appearance on the show. Today, we dig into Nir’s first book, “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.” We also discuss the difference between coercion and persuasion, AI’s use case as our personal Jiminy Cricket and…

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April 29, 2025

The KEY to human behavior

Cultural evolution: The key to understanding human behavior? ~ Nathan Baschez 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #podcast #evolution #shorts #secret

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April 28, 2025

Do what you want!

"Allow yourself to do the thing you've been wanting to do. I think our bodies contain an incredible amount of wisdom in just the idea of motivation, like, what are we motivated to do? And almost every time in my life, when I've gone with that feeling, it's led to…

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April 27, 2025

Yes, it's okay to want a start a business!

"We have this idea of starting a business as, well, it should just be a project and the world should pull the company out of you [...] You should just do cool projects and allow the world to pull it out of you. And I think that's totally wrong..." ~…

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April 26, 2025

Is curation replacing creation? Not so fast...

"There's this kind of meme of, 'oh, well, with AI, everyone's going to be actually curators now rather than creators.' I don't think that's right. " ~ Nathan Baschez... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErmIVFX_5k&t=4s Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/on-ai-writing-thought-design-and #meme #shorts #podcast

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April 24, 2025

Nathan Baschez — On AI Writing, Thought Design & Solo Foundership | Episode 265

Nathan Baschez is the cofounder and CEO of Lex, an AI word-processor. He also cofounded Every, was the first employee at Substack AND co-created Product Hunt. Suffice to say, Nathan knows a thing or two about building on the internet. He joins the show to discuss how AI is changing…

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April 21, 2025

Groups With Cognitive Diversity

"We have a guy that has 7 million followers. We have a guy who's maybe a laser physicist, AGI researcher. Like a deep marketer, $10+ million in revenue at age 20. Folks declining Doge. It's all over the spectrum because that's where I think these new ideas and perspectives come…

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April 20, 2025

Pitching Yourself to Billionaires

"You get two questions, is what I realized over time. They ask you where are you from, where you go to school, and what are you doing out here?" ~ Tommy Potter on pitching himself to billionaires... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP3ofaJOWA0

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April 19, 2025

Being A Jack of All Trades

"I think if you look at a lot of these top companies that are being built, even the top five and Fortune 500 right now, they're all built by these polymaths, these people that learn a lot about a lot of things." ~ Tommy Potter on the power of living…

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April 17, 2025

Tommy Potter — Building the CIA for Entrepreneurs | Episode 264

Young, polymathic, and full of energy — Tommy Potter is on a quest to build a “CIA for Entrepreneurs.” He calls it “The Power Hour” — a startup community in Michigan that hosts dropouts, undergrads and PhDs across many industries: enterprise, consumer, CPG, aviation, gaming, robotics and AR/VR, as they…

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April 15, 2025

Code in no longer Capital, It's Labor

Code is no longer capital, it's labor. Our guest Alex Danco explains...

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April 14, 2025

Memes as High Quality Signal

"I love using memes in my newsletter posts because sometimes it's the best way to encapsulate the concept with a gif that everybody understands." Alex Danco expounds on the signal potential of memes... Full video: https://youtu.be/S4gU9o6ou3M

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April 13, 2025

How do we direct our angst now?

The current status of 2025? Angst looking for a vessel. If it's no longer cool to talk about meme stocks, what are people to do? Our guest Alex Danco explains... Full video: https://youtu.be/S4gU9o6ou3M

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April 12, 2025

Dinner Parties As Status Symbols

Alex Danco's latest take: throwing dinner parties is now a status symbol. "The true scarce status symbol among the set of upwardly mobile professionals is having any kind of spare time... Look at how relaxed I am hosting all these people in our house...and not having a breezy care in…

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April 10, 2025

Alex Danco — On Strollers, Slop & Citizen Kane | Episode 263

Shopify Product Director Alex Danco returns for his NINTH appearance on the show — and he comes in hot. As you’ll hear, I didn’t even get a chance to introduce him before he launched into his take on what everyone gets wrong about Citizen Kane. We also unpack the performance…

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April 7, 2025

Embrace Slow Living. Reject The Rush.

"I would invite people to an invitation to Slow Living...I think we live in a society that is unable to appreciate boredom." ~ Vizi Andrei on how rushing can cancel anything of depth and meaning on a spiritual level... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfcX7AYnKvQ

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April 7, 2025

Create Real Things

"When you create something that just stays on the digital realm, it's kind of abstract. It's not something real. But when you transfer all of that energy in the real world...that's where the magic starts." ~ Vizi Andrei on the sacredness of building real things... Full video: https://youtu.be/nfcX7AYnKvQ

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April 7, 2025

Reflecting On The Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life? A tough question...maybe it's better to never answer it. ~ Vizi Andrei reflects on why this question has always bothered us... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfcX7AYnKvQ

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April 3, 2025

Vizi Andrei — The Way of the Tinkerer | Episode 262

My guest today is my former teammate Vizi Andrei, founder of The Sovereign Artist program and author of Sovereign Artist: Meditations on Lifestyle Design. Vizi’s journey has been anything but conventional. After dabbling in various creative projects, he realized that the internet offers a unique opportunity: the freedom to take…

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