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Ben Cohen - The Hidden Art of Making Things Better (Ep. 319)
This episode of Infinite Loops features host Jimmy Soni, editor-in-chief of Infinite Books, in conversation with Ben Cohen, a Wall Street Journal staff writer best known for his Science of Success col…
Revan Lazarus - How AI is Rebuilding the Creator Economy (Ep. 318)
Nick DeWilde from Seanessy Ventures guest hosts Infinite Loops while Jim O'Shaughnessy is 'being uploaded to computer.' He's joined by Revan Lazarus, founder and CEO of Jamie AI, a platform serving po…
Chelsea Follett - Why Progress Is the Exception, Not the Rule (Ep. 315)
Chelsea Follett, Managing Editor of Human Progress at the Cato Institute and author of Centers of Progress, joins Jim O'Shaughnessy to discuss her forthcoming book The Grim Old Days. Follett challenge…
Mykhailo Marynenko - AI Tools That Give Creators More Control (Ep. 314)
Mihailo 'Misha' Marinenko is one of OSV's first O'Shaughnessy Fellows and leads the AI Lab's engineering efforts. Born in Ukraine, Misha began his technology journey in his father's phone repair shop …
Danielle Crittenden - Dispatches from Grief (Ep. 313)
Danielle Crittenden is a journalist, author, and mother whose 32-year-old daughter Miranda died suddenly in her Brooklyn apartment from complications related to brain tumor medication. Her new memoir …
Saloni Dattani - The Hidden Bottleneck Holding Back the Future of Medicine (Ep. 312)
Solana Daytoni is a science writer, editor at Works in Progress magazine, and host of the Hard Drugs podcast focused on medical innovation. She previously worked at Our World in Data and has a backgro…
Brian Potter - How to Fix America's Building Problem
Brian Potter is a structural engineer, Senior Infrastructure Fellow at the Institute for Progress, and author of The Origins of Efficiency. He spent two and a half years at the failed construction sta…
Sam Arbesman - Why Future Belongs to Curious People (Ep. 309)
Sam Arbsman is a complexity scientist, author, and self-described 'rational optimist' who specializes in boundary-crossing research across multiple disciplines. He serves as a scientist-in-residence a…
Johnathan Bi - Why the Best Founders Might Need a Little Delusion (Ep. 308)
Jonathan B., a repeat guest making his third appearance on Infinite Loops, discusses his evolution from math competitor to startup founder to successful creator of a philosophy lecture series that has…
Polina Pompliano - What Truly Drives Successful People (Ep. 307)
Paulina Pompliano, author of Hidden Genius, joins host Jim O'Shaughnessy for an in-person conversation about her journey from Bulgarian immigrant to business journalist to independent Substack writer.…
Adam Mastroianni - Why Creativity Feels Like It's Dying (Ep. 306)
Adam Mastroianni is an experimental psychologist and postdoc at Columbia University with a Harvard PhD and Rhodes Scholar background. Jim O'Shaughnessy is the founder of O'Shaughnessy Ventures and aut…
Arkady Kulik - The Psychology of Self-Deception (Ep. 305)
Jim O'Shaughnessy hosts returning guest Arkady Kulik, a trained nuclear physicist turned venture capitalist with an unconventional career path spanning music distribution, tour logistics for movie stu…
Angus Fletcher - The Biggest Mistake We Made About Intelligence (Ep. 304)
Jim O'Shaughnessy hosts Angus Fletcher, a professor at Ohio State's Project Narrative who studies stories as "the operating system of human intelligence." Fletcher has spent years working with U.S. Ar…
Jonathan Tepper - Growing Up in the Heroin Capital of Europe (Ep. 303)
Jonathan Tepper, Rhodes Scholar and investment fund manager, discusses his memoir Shooting Up with the host. The book chronicles his childhood as a missionary kid in 1980s Madrid, where his parents es…
Paul Millerd & Jimmy Soni — The Creative Opportunities of a Boring Life (EP. 302)
Paul Miller, author of the self-published bestseller The Pathless Path with 2,500 Amazon reviews and a 4.5-star rating, joins Jim O'Shaughnessy and Jimmy Soni to discuss his rejection of traditional p…
Cliff Asness - Surviving the Meme Stock Bubble (Ep. 298)
Jim O'Shaughnessy hosts Cliff Asness, co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of AQR Capital Management, one of the world's largest quantitative investment firms. The conversation explores the emotion…
Tomás Pueyo — Explaining the World Through Geography, History and Data (EP. 297)
Thomas Cuello is a French-Spanish writer, engineer, and entrepreneur whose viral 2020 COVID essays "Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now" and "The Hammer and the Dance" reached 65 million readers and inf…
Todd Rose — Escaping the Trap of the Standard Path (EP.290)
Jim O'Shaughnessy hosts Todd Rose, author of Collective Illusions, The End of Average, and Dark Horse, founder of Populous think tank, and former Harvard professor. Rose shares his remarkable journey …
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