Derek Sivers said no to every podcast request for more than a year. This is the one he said yes to, three years after his last conversation with Jim O'Shaughnessy. Derek talks about raising a son, why he moves countries on purpose and plans to live in Bangalore and Shanghai…
How do you label ink inside a scroll that has never been opened? Dr. Brent Seales on how roughly 2,000 Vesuvius Challenge competitors solved it. Competitors ran a basic machine learning model on a virtually opened section, spotted a few letters, and used them as new labels. Each round exposed…
An X-ray shows what is inside a sealed scroll, the same way it does inside a human body. Dr. Brent Seales explains why that scan is only the starting point, and what virtual unwrapping actually does with it. The scan gives a model of everything inside without opening anything. But…
Dr. Brent Seales spent decades trying to read a book that cannot be opened. This summer his team showed they can unwrap and read a complete scroll, and presented results from three, without unrolling a single one. The Herculaneum library is the only library from classical antiquity that survived. Mount…
How do you get an NBA coaching staff to actually use advanced analytics? Former Phoenix Suns Assistant GM Ryan Resch explains how machine learning solved the communication gap by tying optical tracking data directly to game film. Instead of needing technical coding skills to decipher player coordinates, front offices can…
Ryan Resch breaks down the reality of AI adoption in sports and enterprise in 2026. Organizations that win with AI don't treat it as a novel tech stack. They treat it strictly as operations transformation. True ROI comes down to ingesting massive data streams, synthesizing the information rapidly, and executing…
Should an NBA team tank? Former Phoenix Suns Assistant GM Ryan Resch says ownership groups can now ask AI to model that decision first. Ryan hopes that AI brings sports back to deeper questions and more novel insights, the kind teams could not afford to chase before. KEY INSIGHTS -…
Ryan Resch, former Assistant General Manager and VP of Basketball Operations for the Phoenix Suns, joins guest host Jimmy Soni to discuss how data changed the NBA, why the advantage fades when every team works from the same information, and what AI changes next. We explore his path from a…
Brian Chau, founder of Effort News, joins Infinite Loops to explore how AI could fundamentally reshape investigative journalism—not by writing articles, but by searching, analyzing, and connecting millions of legal, financial, and government records that humans could never examine manually. They discuss why traditional investigative journalism relies so heavily on…
Nat Eliason joins guest host Jimmy Soni to discuss Founders School, a new high school for entrepreneurs that guarantees students will generate $1 million in gross profit by graduation or get their tuition refunded. We explore how AI is changing what teenagers can build, why traditional entrepreneurship education falls short,…
Philip Howard joins Infinite Loops to explain how America’s legal and regulatory system became too complicated to function effectively—and how we can rebuild it around judgment, accountability, and human agency. We discuss why government has become unmanageable, how thousand-page rulebooks discourage individual judgment, why infrastructure projects can take decades to…
Sangeet Choudary joins Infinite Loops for a second time to explain why AI’s greatest impact will not be automating today’s work, but rebuilding the structures beneath it. Jim and Sangeet discuss AI-native companies, the future of knowledge work, American and Chinese AI models, creative “exhaust,” changing career paths, and how…
What if the great stories were more than just stories? Jameson Olsen, host of Becoming the Main Character, joins guest host Liberty to explore fiction as a kind of operating system for life — a way to study agency, ambition, empathy, failure, courage, and change without having to live every…
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David Gelles joins guest host Jimmy Soni to discuss his career covering business for The New York Times. They talk about his books - Mindful Work, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, and Dirtbag Billionaire - and the reporting behind major stories on Bernie Madoff, Jack Welch, Boeing's 737 Max crashes,…
Gretchen Rubin joins guest host and Infinite Books CEO Jimmy Soni to discuss her journey from Supreme Court clerk to bestselling author, the creative obsessions that shaped her career, and the daily habits that fuel her work. They cover her transition from law to writing Power Money Fame Sex, why…
Wall Street Journal columnist Ben Cohen joins guest host Jimmy Soni, CEO of Infinite Books, to explore the hidden art of making things better. They explore the hot hand phenomenon in basketball, why Moneyball shaped a generation of journalists, the peanut butter and jelly crisis in the Warriors locker room,…
AI is no longer just a tool creators use to make content faster. It is beginning to reshape the entire creator economy. Revan Lazarus is the founder of Jamie, an AI platform for podcast networks and digital sales teams. He joins Infinite Loops, guest-hosted by Nick Tawil, to discuss how…
What actually happens after you donate a bag of clothes? Most people assume it gets sold locally to someone in need, but the reality is much bigger, stranger, and more global. In this episode of Infinite Loops, we sit down for a roundtable on the hidden global economy of secondhand…
Chelsea Follett explains a disturbing historical example from London: a rule against beating wives or servants after 9 p.m. was treated as a noise regulation. A grim reminder that the “good old days” were often far more brutal than nostalgia suggests.
Jason Buck, founder and CIO of Mutiny Funds, joins Infinite Loops to tell the painful and darkly funny story of how the 2007–2008 crash destroyed his real estate business, wiped out his paper wealth, and taught him one of the hardest lessons in markets: being right is not the same…
Chelsea Follett joins Infinite Loops to explain why the “good old days” were far darker than most people imagine — and why progress should never be taken for granted. Chelsea is the managing editor of Human Progress and author of Centers of Progress and the forthcoming The Grim Old Days.…
Mykhailo Marynenko joins Infinite Loops for for a fascinating conversation about the future of AI, creative tools, privacy, and data ownership. From growing up in his father’s phone repair shop in Ukraine to building experimental AI systems today, Mykhailo has spent his life taking things apart, figuring out how they…
Mykhailo Marynenko joins Infinite Loops for for a fascinating conversation about the future of AI, creative tools, privacy, and data ownership. From growing up in his father’s phone repair shop in Ukraine to building experimental AI systems today, Mykhailo has spent his life taking things apart, figuring out how they…