"I get asked all the time, ‘How did you learn to write and tell stories?’ It was being down at the implement store, listening to the farmers sitting around rolling dice and drinking coffee. Their stories had shape and form and flow, and they often had a payoff. They didn't…
What happens when a shy farm kid from rural Wisconsin who never dreamed of being a writer becomes one of America's most beloved storytellers? Michael Perry joins Infinite Loops to share his remarkable journey from cleaning calf pens to pitching scripts at Universal Studios, all while maintaining his day job…
"Sometimes I think about children because I think you don't see it in their firmware. You bring a little toddler to the playground, they're not going to say, 'What are my goals for today?' I'm going to learn how to climb that monkey bar. That's what I like. And then…
“…deception is just completely rife throughout complex spaces. That's the way that reality is structured." - Ken Staley on how deception is everywhere. Full video: https://youtu.be/YfdKUsf_cQM
"Obviously, in order to maximize the opportunity for serendipity, you need to take some risks." Ken Stanley guarantees that if you don't pursue things that interest you, you won't do anything interesting. Full video: https://youtu.be/YfdKUsf_cQM
"If you think that I'm saying because you pursue novelty and interestingness that you're acting randomly, then you don't understand what randomness is." Ken Stanley on how pursuing 'interestingness' is not being random. Full video: https://youtu.be/YfdKUsf_cQM
Ken Stanley – AI researcher and author of "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" – joins me to explore why ambitious objectives can blind us to the stepping stones that make breakthroughs possible. Ken is the inventor of the novelty search algorithm and co-creator of Picbreeder, a crowdsourced evolutionary art experiment…
“One company created today could define capitalism 75 years from now.” Elle Griffin explains why the future belongs to founders who balance realism and altruism, creating ownership models that reward both contribution and community. 🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/RUbDLLTvVsg #FutureOfWork #Leadership #Ownership #Capitalism #InfiniteLoops
Elle Griffin explains how America’s ESOP structure, created under the ERISA Act, trapped ownership in retirement plans instead of circulating it through innovation. Employees save. Founders reinvest. That’s why the wealth gap compounds. 🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/RUbDLLTvVsg 🔗 Transcript & highlights: https://newsletter.osv.llc
Elle Griffin explains how companies can make equity fairer and more transparent — through salary-based stock distribution, profit-sharing, and regular liquidity events. 🎧 Full conversation: https://youtu.be/RUbDLLTvVsg 🔗 Transcript & highlights: https://newsletter.osv.llc
“I upload my entire essays to ChatGPT and I'm like, ‘Tell me what all the commenters are going to say about this,’ and it'll nitpick everything I say. I love it; it's great.” ~ Elle Griffin on using AI to predict criticism and strengthen her work. 🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/RUbDLLTvVsg
Writer, editor, and founder of The Elysian, Elle Griffin joins me on Infinite Loops to discuss her vision for participatory capitalism, a world where ownership, reputation, and creativity are shared more broadly across society. We explore the evolution of capitalism from the industrial era to the networked age, how broad-based…
"A lot of low agency people track the inputs...'I put this amount of effort hours in, I should get this amount of stuff out.' [But] high agency people focus on the outputs." ~ Jay Yang echoes Naval: "The only true test of intelligence is whether you get what you want…
"Here, I made this for you because I've been loving your work for the last few years. If you like it, let's work together. If not, no harm, no foul." ~ Jay Yang's approach to working with people he admires... Full video: https://youtu.be/ihntSCqmxQ0
"If you're constantly thinking, 'Oh, I can't just do things,' or 'Someone else, they're just lucky,' or 'Things don't go my way'—are those really the thoughts that you want in your head?" ~ Jay Yang on rewiring our mental software... Full video: https://youtu.be/ihntSCqmxQ0
"Obsession isn't what you want to do. Obsession is what you can't not do." ~ Jay Yang on the core factor of agency... Full video: https://youtu.be/ihntSCqmxQ0
What if the biggest barrier between you and your dreams isn't talent, connections, or luck— but simply the belief that you need permission to act? Jay Yang joins Infinite Loops to challenge one of the most limiting assumptions of our time: that opportunities must be handed to us rather than…
We’re heading toward organizations where more AI agents will work for us than humans. The challenge is learning how to direct, manage, and sometimes overrule them. ~ Jim O’Shaughnessy on the leadership mindset of the future. Full Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/DJqDGrKzxvo #AI #leadership #technology #InfiniteLoops
Shifting from Product-Led Growth to Sales-Led Growth isn’t a simple pricing change — it’s a complete organizational transformation. ~ Jeff Bussgang on how great companies scale beyond the PLG plateau. Full Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/DJqDGrKzxvo
If AI is doing the technical work, how will young people know what excellence looks like? It’s time for the Revenge of the Liberal Arts — to master taste, judgment, and the art of discernment. ~ Jeff Bussgang on the timeless skills AI can’t replace. Full Youtube video: https://youtu.be/DJqDGrKzxvo #AI…
We have two ways that we define clock speed… one is the ability to make decisions rapidly, the other is raw intelligence. The best founders have both. ~ Jeff Bussgang @bussgang on what separates exceptional founders from the rest 👇 Full Youtube video: https://youtu.be/DJqDGrKzxvo #startups #founders #AI #entrepreneurship #InfiniteLoops
Jeff Bussgang — entrepreneur, venture capitalist, Harvard Business School professor, and co-founder of Flybridge Capital — joins Infinite Loops to explore how AI is transforming the operating systems of startups. We dive into Jeff’s framework from his new book The Experimentation Machine, why AI compresses the cost and time of…
"A lot of the VCs are much more interested in tweeting than governing..." ~ Dan Wang on why very few modern versions of Admiral Rickover exist today Full video: https://youtu.be/NShAtq8WROM #fullvideo #vcs #government #progress #bureaucracy #musk
"Lawyers used to be creative dealmaking types...and then the lawyers decided to shift away from being deal-makers into regulators..." ~ Dan Wang on a shift in the attitude of Lawyers since the 60s...👇