
Infinite Loops 🎙
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Infinite Loops 🎙
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Podcast by @jposhaughnessy & @osvllc | Upgrade your HumanOS 🧠 | Download our free list of 100 timeless, underappreciated books (link in bio).









We’ve built an education system that creates great test takers… but not great thinkers. In this episode of Infinite Loops, we sit down with story scientist and Primal Intelligence author Angus Fletcher to explore why modern education may be suppressing imagination, how humans think in stories rather than equations, and why the most successful innovators balance probability with possibility. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 03:20 Why Writing by Hand Improves Thinking 08:00 The “Centaur” Model: Humans + AI 16:30 Probability Thinking vs Possibility Thinking 26:00 The Big Mistake: Thinking the Brain Is a Computer 32:00 What the U.S. Army Taught Angus Fletcher About Intelligence 42:00 Why Traders, ER Doctors, and Special Forces Think Differently 59:00 Long-Term Thinking and the “Grandchildren Principle” 1:16:00 Science, Intuition, and the Limits of Knowledge 1:32:00 The Disney Problem and Formulaic Stories 1:39:00 The Infinite Loops Closing Question 👇👇

