Videos

"I think every utopia is a dystopia..." Here's Arjun Khemani on the pessimism of ultimacy… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4hEtKsgnY

"I think people make more progress if they just follow their interests..." ~ Arjun Khemani explains why he thinks altruism is inefficient… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4hEtKsgnY

If aliens visited Earth, would they want to steal our resources? "[T]hat's just the most absurd idea somebody could have. I think resources are just limited to the amount of knowledge that people have, and knowledge is what creates resources." ~ Arjun Khemani Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4hEtKsgnY

"I want to live a life without sacrifices and without compromises [...] Sure, you have to make trade-offs, but you choose the better option. And I wouldn't call choosing a better option a sacrifice." ~ Arjun Khemani Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4hEtKsgnY

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 Ravikant. As the host of the Arjun Khemani podcast, Arjun has spoken to a wide range of guests including David Deutsch, David Perell and…

"I just find it's a thrilling mental exercise because you're going against the masses and everyone's telling you you're wrong and you are planting a flag and saying, "No, I'm right and I'm going to put my money behind it, or the money of our investors.” -- EddyElfenbein Catch the…

"I think the larger theme is that the gatekeepers no longer play the role that they used to be..." -- Eddy Elfenbein Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPdi2PFnk0

"The stocks don't know you own them" -- Eddy Elfenbein Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPdi2PFnk0

"...That's one of the problems about quantitative things is you're trying to add numbers, you're trying to distill something that is at root is just highly emotional, and it's a very human entity." -- Eddy Elfenbein Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPdi2PFnk0

The Great Reshuffle touches every element of our lives, from where we live to how we work, play and communicate. Faced with such seismic change, legacy institutions are choosing to stick their head in the sand. Even as the old models collapse, the knee-jerk deference to the default way of…

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 show to discuss the story behind his longtime blog - Crossing Wall Street - https://www.crossingwallstreet.com/ (CWS), the origins of his famous Buy List,…

Anna Gat on why "making life beautiful for other people is more important than making it beautiful for yourself" Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrSpO2-o6Q

"…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……