Videos

"[P]ossibility is destabilizing, and people are uncomfortable with that." Here's Visakan Veerasamy on the inherent creativity of excuse-making… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TirISO_Y9Rs

"[W]e are constrained by our lack of imagination, and our imagination is constrained by our language. And if you're only using the same few words, then we only think the same few thoughts." -- Visakan Veerasamy Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TirISO_Y9Rs

The inimitable Visakan Veerasamy returns for a characteristically wide-ranging discussion… Important Links: - Visa's Website - https://visakanv.com/ - Visa's Twitter - https://twitter.com/visakanv?s=21&t=ALz31dMfSqUU5nqaDoW8Bg - Visa's Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@visakanv - Visa’s Previous Episode - https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/visakan-veerasamy-on-creativity-introspection-being-a-good-reply-guy-ep149/ - Visa’s Post-Episode Thread - https://x.com/visakanv/status/1768093226853114108?s=20 Show Notes: 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:48 Main podcast 0:01:09 Life as a…

“[Open-source] potentially does more to lift people out of poverty and thus promote peace than it does to still conflict. It's not zero-sum.” — Brendan McCord on the power of open-source software… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwe3uZYxxM

“What we're really interested now is philosophy to code. So we're interested in philosophical ideas [around] individual human agency, free speech, … nature of reason,…, and we want to translate those into open source software.” — Brendan McCord on the new Philosophy to Code Pipelines… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwe3uZYxxM

“the Man of System thinks that he can control society like a machine…[they] can be so self-satisfied that they think they control humans like they're pieces on a chess board…But the problem is the pieces have volition.” — Brendan McCord on the deterministic outlook of the Man of System archetype……

“What are the questions that Plato and Aristotle dealt with 2,500 years ago? How did they treat those questions?” — Brendan McCord on the truth-seeking nature of philosophy… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwe3uZYxxM

Brendan McCord is the founder of Cosmos Institute — a non-profit dedicated to exploring the intersection of AI and philosophy. (https://cosmosinstitute.substack.com/) Brendan joins the show to discuss Cosmos’ origins, the pursuit of philosophy as a technologist, the different schools of thought in AI, complex adaptive systems and MUCH more! Important…

"[T]here are things you can do that structurally increase your luck surface area on a fundamental level..." -- Alex Komoroske Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLNwZvekes

We'll be releasing the next Great Reshuffle Video: The Future of Work in the next couple of weeks. Here's a sneak peek at one of the smaller segments on how to prepare for the future of Work

"[T]he mundane bullshit will cover every square inch you give it." Here's Alex Komoroske on finding the boldness to escape busyness… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLNwZvekes

"I really believe that we have maxims like we have because they have been compressed, compressed, compressed, all across human time." -- Jim and Alex Komoroske discuss the 'Hallmark Card Fallacy’… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLNwZvekes

"So many people, I think, are driven by this insecurity of, 'People will know I'm dumb or will know I don't know what I'm doing.' And there's something so liberating in saying, 'Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing!' I don't think any of us do really." -- Alex…

Alex Komoroske has spent his career studying, writing about, and working in complex adaptive systems. He has published multiple essays on topics like Schelling points in organizations, why debate should be collaborative, and how to ensure resilient growth in harsh environments. Alex has also worked as a product manager and…

Why do business and investing experts read so widely? Cedric Chin explains… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA

"Klein says that experts who become great... learn quite early on that every time they update something, they need to stop, take a step back and say, 'what else does this mean that I need to reevaluate?'" Here's Cedric Chin on how to avoid cognitive dissonance… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA

“At some point, if you do well in business enough, your company throws off cash, and how you allocate that capital actually matters." Cedric Chin explains why business success eventually requires an investor mindset… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA

“[Y]ou should continue to spend energy questioning the mistakes that you're making, even if you're making very little mistakes." Here's Cedric Chin on the relationship between mistakes and greatness… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA

Accelerating Business Expertise Description: Cedric Chin is a writer, researcher and operator whose Commoncog newsletter is dedicated to finding useful, practical ways to accelerate business expertise. He joins us to discuss some of the most potentially transformative concepts he’s uncovered, from the business expertise triad to naturalistic decision making. Important…

"Nobody else can create what you see in your head. Either you're going to do it, or it's not gonna get done.” ~ Devon Eriksen Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COwtRiEZ3k

"[I]f you could work out all of the technology a 100% in your science fiction novel, you would not be writing science fiction novels... you would be starting a tech company." Here's Devon Eriksen on how to write believable hard sci-fi… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COwtRiEZ3k

"[W]here gardeners will write from front to back, architects will write from general to specific." ~ Devon Eriksen on the "two categories of writers”… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COwtRiEZ3k

“[P]eople's ability to know what they want is limited by their ability to imagine that which does not exist." ~ Devon Eriksen explains why he values a specific kind of reader feedback… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COwtRiEZ3k

Devon Eriksen always wanted to be a writer. As a child, he was persuaded to abandon his aspirations in favor of a career in software engineering. Two decades later, he retired to finally fulfil his ambition to write imaginative hard-science fiction in the vein of authors like Asimov, Heinlein and…