Infinite Loops · 2026-08-06 · 85 min · 13,043 words

Jesse Michels — American Alchemy (Infinite Loops Classics)

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The consumer internet right now is not net a net positive. I like Twitter. I think it's a really cool tool. There are aspects of Instagram that I like. To be these things fire march suck. And they don't make most people better. They make most people shittier. I worry about uh what the modern internet does to people and that we haven't

designed it in in a deliberate enough way and even people who I really admire. I've seen them lose themselves entirely. He everyone, Jim here. We're taking a short pause on new episodes through the end of August. We'll be back at the end of the month. But in the meantime, we're digging out some of our favorite conversations from the archive.

Enjoy! Well, hello everyone, it's Jim O'Shaughnessy with yet another episode of Infinite Loops, and I have a confession to make. My guest and I have been chatting. You'll hear a lot of the chat because we were recording and uh we'll we'll Figure out the good stuff. But

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