Apr 30, 2026
Saloni Dattani, author of the
Scientific Discovery Substack and
founding editor of Works in Progress
magazine, joins Infinite Loops to discuss why medical
innovation is often much slower than it needs to be.
We explore why so much research still begins in animal models, how
poor data distorts our understanding of...
Apr 23, 2026
Why has America become so bad at building housing,
infrastructure, and major projects?
Brian Potter, author of The Origins of Efficiency and writer of
Construction Physics, explains why prefab housing keeps failing and
why there are no easy fixes to America’s building problem. We
discuss Katerra, California’s...
Apr 16, 2026
What can Aristotle, Plato, Prometheus, and the Greek city-states teach us about AI, innovation, and the future of human flourishing?
Alex Petkas joins the show to explore how old myths still matter in a world shaped by technology. We talk about Prometheus as the foundational myth of tech, Plato’s fear that writing...
Apr 9, 2026
Apr 2, 2026
Johnathan Bi returns to Infinite Loops for a conversation about founders, delusion, America, religion, mysticism, and the strange tension between truth and action.
We explore why some of the most effective builders may be the least introspective, why societies often run on useful fictions, how America encourages...