Alex Danco returns for his seventh (yes, SEVENTH) appearance on Infinite Loops to discuss, as usual, pretty much everything other than the topics we had prepared in advance.
This week, we discuss: The two types of lawyers, what Alex learned from reading Don Quixote, Elon the Reply Guy, the psychology of Seinfeld, the best Wall Street Movies, and much more.
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00:00 Start
00:51 Main Podcast
02:57 The two kinds of laywers
04:56 Medicine, placebo, Don Quixote & theater
14:06 Heroes, villains and main characters
18:13 Elon the Reply Guy
23:15 Safe words, scams & narrative collapse
29:51 Self-deception is multiplayer
38:55 The psychology of Seinfeld
44:54 To what extent are great innovations already baked into the systems?
49:55 Margin Call: The two schools of thought
52:30 The best Wall Street movies
- The Theory And Practice Of Gamesmanship Or The Art Of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating; by Stephen Potter
- Don Quixote; by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Fifth Science; by Exurb1a
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It; by Will Storr
- The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History; by Howard K. Bloom
- Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships; by Eric Berne
- Mendel's Dwarf; by Simon Mawer
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine; by Michael Lewis
- The Bonfire of the Vanities; by Tom Wolfe
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron; by Peter Elkind & Bethany McLean
