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…
"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 &…
“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
"If we're going to optimize for anything, maybe we should optimize for a world in which we are capable of allocating resources to idle thinking and boredom and curiosity..." ~ Michael Garfield 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
"Specialization is for insects." ~ Robert A. Heinlein Michael Garfield explains why weirdness is a perk... 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
My guest today is Michael Garfield, a paleontologist, futurist, writer, podcast host and strategic advisor whose “mind-jazz” performances — essays, music and fine art — bridge the worlds of art, science and philosophy. This year, Michael received a $10k O’Shaughnessy Grant - https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/meet-our-2024-merchants-of-light) for his “Humans On the Loop” discussion…
"Stay in tune with the reality in front of you, which is not the baby crying on the plane. It's the fact that you are able to hurtle above the Pacific at 600 miles an hour to Asia, thanks to technology and thanks to capitalism.” ~ Max Meyer on resisting…
"Negative criticism is really fun to read and really fun to write, but [...] the real risk that a critic takes is the defense of the new." ~ Max Meyer on the wisdom of Ratatouille... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/max-meyer-launched-a-print-magazine Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNLsBHhF14&t=2s
"Congress has exercised simultaneously too much control, too many demands, and too much scrutiny." ~ Max Meyer on NASA & the fear of failure... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/max-meyer-launched-a-print-magazine Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNLsBHhF14&t=2s
“Some of the mid-level technologists are making a lot more money than the best technology writers.” Here’s Max Meyer on the brain drain in tech journalism… Links, highlights & Transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/max-meyer-launched-a-print-magazine Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNLsBHhF14&t=2s
My guest today is Max Meyer, the proprietor of Arena Magazine, a new quarterly publication exploring technology, capitalism and civilization. Arena’s aim? To “make it okay to dream in public again.” Max and I discuss why he launched a print magazine in 2024, WTF happened to legacy media, the wisdom…
"The values of a company are not defined by how things are when things are going well, what is said on a website. They're defined by how the company acts in an impossible situation." ~ Parmita Mishra Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-think-about-biology-ep-244 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0aYlwBE7nk&t=4s
“We're completely dependent on people who come up with the way we measure things, and we never see another version of reality where we have another measurement." ~ Parmita Mishra The lens you look through determines what you see... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-think-about-biology-ep-244 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0aYlwBE7nk&t=4s
"The most important thing when you're thinking about biology is to start thinking about it from first principles." ~ Here's Parmita Mishra on two fundamental principles of life... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-think-about-biology-ep-244 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0aYlwBE7nk&t=4s
“There are no adults in the room when it comes to biology. There's no interview from one expert that's going to tell you everything." ~ Parmita Mishra explains why you should beware biology clickbait... Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-think-about-biology-ep-244 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0aYlwBE7nk&t=4s
Parmita Mishra is a computational biologist and the founder & CEO of Precigenetics, a company aiming to become a rocket to precision medicine. Parmita is deeply knowledgeable about cutting-edge biology, particularly epigenetics — how behavior and environment can affect gene function without altering genetic code. Her passion for advancing our…
"The way you manage money has been based on numbers. Now, the way you manage money is based on words." ~ Luis Seco Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/on-mathematical-beethovens-decentralized Full episode: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dZyKAB5sH7E
“I am expected to think that science is all important and everything is about science [...] I say no. No. What is called humanities, art, literature [...] perhaps today is more important than ever." ~ Luis Seco Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/on-mathematical-beethovens-decentralized Full episode: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dZyKAB5sH7E
“This is who we are, this is what we do.” Here's Luis Seco on why we are all born teachers... 👇👇 Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/on-mathematical-beethovens-decentralized Full episode: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dZyKAB5sH7E
"A company is a community, and if you're hired to be part of that community, they're not going to hire you for skills only. They're going to hire you for everything else. They're going to hire you for how well you sing, how well you speak, how well you dance.”…
Professor Luis Seco is a mathematician, educator, and investor. Among many other titles and achievements, he is the Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, Director of the quant research hub Risklab, Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Development at the Fields Institute, and co-founder of the asset management…
Anthony Pompliano explains why power laws rule the world... Transcript & Links: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-live-an-extraordinary-life Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHk76yIN45Y
"The more somebody believes in luck, the lower agency they probably are, and the less somebody believes in luck, the higher agency they are." ~ Anthony Pompliano explains why luck isn't real... Transcript & Links: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-live-an-extraordinary-life Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHk76yIN45Y
"Ambition can kill companies just as much as mistakes..." ~ Anthony Pompliano Transcript & Links: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-live-an-extraordinary-life Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHk76yIN45Y