Strategy consultant turned writer Natasha Joukovsky joins me to discuss why bourgeois comfort is more conducive to writing than you think, why choice-plots make for better fiction, the eyerolling prevalence of manufactured nonchalance, our shared distaste for Atlantis Bahamas, and MUCH more! I hope you enjoy this conversation as much…
You’ve mastered the hammer. But growth starts when you try a new tool. ~ Tiago Forte explains why doubling down on strengths can lead to diminishing and even negative returns. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oW99rO_GQI
AI doesn’t care how big your team is. A 5-person company can now do what used to take 500 because the same tools are in everyone’s hands. ~ Tiago Forte on why AI is the great equalizer. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oW99rO_GQI
When AI levels the playing field, effort becomes scarce. And rare knowledge? That’s the edge no model can replicate. ~ Tiago Forte on why what you uniquely know will matter more than ever. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oW99rO_GQI
Envy is a pure signal. You can’t fake it. It’s your inner compass, showing you what’s missing. ~ Tiago Forte reflects on the surprising wisdom inside envy and what to do with it when it shows up. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oW99rO_GQI
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…
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
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
'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
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.
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…
Cultural evolution: The key to understanding human behavior? ~ Nathan Baschez 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #podcast #evolution #shorts #secret
"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…
"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..." ~…
"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
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…
"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…
"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
"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…
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…
Code is no longer capital, it's labor. Our guest Alex Danco explains...
"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
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
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…