Videos

Jan. 18, 2025

You too can create Ripples in our Information Economy

"I think about content, I think about idea sharing. I think about this information economy that we live in now and it is the most remarkable time to be alive." ~ Sahil Bloom on why idea sharing triggers a positive energy chain reaction

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Jan. 16, 2025

Sahil Bloom - A Multitude of Wealth | Episode 251

Sahil Bloom, a prolific creator, founder and investor, has mastered the art of translating complex ideas about wealth and success into wisdom that resonates with millions. His newsletter, The Curiosity Chronicle, grew from just 100 readers to over 800,000 subscribers in three years - a testament to his ability to…

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Jan. 14, 2025

The Path to Happiness is More Obvious Than You Think

"If you're not happy [...] how much of your week are you spending doing the very obvious things that tend to make people happy?" ~ Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on why the path to happiness may be more obvious than you think... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/who-makes-the-nba-ep-250 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLxgFHzHLU&t=3s

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Jan. 13, 2025

Search engines know what you REALLY think

Social media: "My husband is the best, the greatest, so cute, adorable." Private search: "My husband is a jerk." ~ Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on the stated preferences of social media vs the revealed preferences of search... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/who-makes-the-nba-ep-250 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLxgFHzHLU&t=3s

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Jan. 12, 2025

What is your UNFAIR advantage?

"You don't want to do things that are necessarily really hard for you or really lean into your disadvantage even if it would make a better story..." ~ Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on leaning into your unfair advantage... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/who-makes-the-nba-ep-250 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLxgFHzHLU&t=3s

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Jan. 11, 2025

Why tall basketball players DON'T need to be that talented...

"If you're under six-foot tall, you have less than one-in-a-million chance of making the NBA. If you're seven feet or above, you have a one-in-seven chance..." ~ Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on why tall basketball players don't need to be that talented... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/who-makes-the-nba-ep-250 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLxgFHzHLU&t=3s

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Jan. 9, 2025

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz — Who Makes the NBA? | Episode 250

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a data scientist and bestselling author, is known for his brilliant use of data to upend conventional wisdom - often with humorous, surprising, and occasionally shocking results. His latest book, Who Makes the NBA, uses data to interrogate some of basketball’s biggest questions, consistently yielding unexpected insights. Here’s…

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Jan. 7, 2025

The Universe is Behaving Like a... Dog? 🐶

“Look again at the universe. Is it behaving like a bag of chemicals randomly chosen with random properties, or is it behaving like a f*cking dog? It's behaving like a dog.” ~ Julian Gough 🐶 Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/the-egg-and-the-rock-ep-249 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5inYnDWWA&t=3s

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Jan. 6, 2025

The Strange Life of Subterranean Ice Aliens

"They don't have stars in the sky. They don't see a sun, they can't see planets. Would they ever dig through the ice a hundred miles and then fall into space?" ~ Julian Gough on the strange life of subterranean ice aliens... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/the-egg-and-the-rock-ep-249 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5inYnDWWA&t=3s

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Jan. 5, 2025

This Surprising Energy Source is BY FAR the Most Powerful...

“Eventually, we're going to tap anything that doesn't break the laws of physics.” ~ Julian Gough on why human progress bends toward man-made black holes... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/the-egg-and-the-rock-ep-249 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5inYnDWWA&t=3s Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5inYnDWWA&t=3s

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Jan. 4, 2025

The Scientific Method vs. Human Nature. There's Only One Winner...

“The scientific method is in conflict with human nature. [...] So what you end up with is social ape dynamics inside scientific fields, that can lock them off from truth over time." ~Julian Gough on how new sciences descend from "start-up energy to corporate bloat..." Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/the-egg-and-the-rock-ep-249…

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Jan. 2, 2025

Julian Gough — The Egg and The Rock | Episode 249

Julian Gough sums up his career as follows: “ I just sit in my room and write.” Well, I think being an acclaimed children’s author, novelist, radio and stage playwright, poet and top ten Irish musician is a little bit more impressive than he’s letting on… Oh, and I didn’t…

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Dec. 31, 2024

Why Tech People Don't Do Philanthropy

"The thought goes, if something is valuable to the world, you should be able to capture enough of its value to make it a good investment...” Here's Ben Reinhardt on why tech people don't do philanthropy... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/speculative-technologies-ep-248 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KOKVnGJAg&t=2426s

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Dec. 30, 2024

The Carnegie Model of Philanthropy

Here's Ben Reinhardt on Andrew Carnegie's lessons for government + philanthropy partnerships... "Carnegie would go to these towns and he'd say, 'Hey, I will pay for this library to be built, but you, the town, need to commit to paying operational expenses for this library.'" Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/speculative-technologies-ep-248…

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Dec. 29, 2024

Why Technologists Should Pay it Forward

“Many people in tech made a lot of money because someone in the past did really important research. And that person is not going to be able to capture the value of their research, because often there'll be someone who tried something, it failed, but it gave someone else the…

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Dec. 28, 2024

Academia is Beholden to the New

"It's ultimately an outgrowth of philosophy [...] And so there's this heavy focus on novelty. There's this heavy focus on, 'Oh, what's interesting?' [...] It's not well suited for what I would call invention or the creation of new useful technologies where it doesn't matter how new the idea is."…

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Dec. 26, 2024

Ben Reinhardt — Speculative Technologies | Episode 248

Ben Reinhardt is the founder of Speculative Technologies “a nonprofit industrial research lab that’s working to unlock a wonderful, abundant future through technologies that don’t have a home in other institutions.” He has previously worked at NASA and Bay Area startups/VC firms, founded a startup building robotics for eldercare, and…

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Dec. 24, 2024

On Organic Growth

"...So I think that's one of the core learnings having built consumer companies over the last 15 years and invested in them too, is how do you build something and/or invest in something that is growing organically or that can grow organically, and how do you put those levers in…

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Dec. 23, 2024

Optimising for 'Aha' moments

Optimising for 'Aha' moments - the key to building successful consumer products🔑 More from Jay Reno in this week's episode of Infinite Loops. Watch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYs0i5GGTw4

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Dec. 22, 2024

Making A Point

If you've ever been curious about the whimsical world of credit card points, this week's episode of Infinite Loops will be treat...✈️ You won't find a better guide into this world than @jayjreno, Co-founder and CEO of Pointhound, whose mission is to help consumers get the most out of their…

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Dec. 21, 2024

Picking The Right Investor-Partners

In this week's episode of Infinite Loops, Jay Reno offers a masterclass in picking the right investor-partners... Watch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYs0i5GGTw4

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Dec. 19, 2024

Jay Reno — Making A Point | Episode 247

My guest on Infinite Loops this week knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur from the time he was buying and selling things on eBay. Jay Reno claims he didn’t know what the word ‘arbitrage’ meant back then, but if you tug on the colourful threads of his career, you’d…

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Dec. 17, 2024

Why Chasing Happiness May Be Holding You Back

"I do think that learning how to get better at reallocating our attention, and at telling stories that excite ourselves and excite other people, is a far better way to engage with the daunting complexity of the world that we have made for ourselves.” ~ Michael Garfield... Links, highlights &…

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Dec. 16, 2024

Why High Turnover Kills Innovation: The Secret of Institutional Knowledge

“High turnover organizations are not enough. You can have a huge flow of talent through a building [...] and they can keep having amazing ideas that somebody had last year." ~ Michael Garfield on how to design an effective institution... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/playing-the-mind-jazz-ep-246 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PL1XZ0a_V4&t=8s

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