{"podcast":{"title":"Infinite Loops","slug":"infinite-loops-259760","podcast_index_feed_id":259760,"rss_url":"https://infiniteloops.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://infiniteloopspodcast.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/8/b/8/58b8b50dd4cbba7427a2322813b393ee/Infinite_Loops_New_Podcast_Logo.jpeg","author":"Jim O'Shaughnessy","episode_count":332,"summary":"Every Thursday, join Jim O'Shaughnessy and his favorite people as they arm you with the tools & fresh perspectives required to upgrade your HumanOS and thrive in our messy, probabilistic world. Visit our Substack at newsletter.osv.llc for full transcripts, highlights, weekly doses of timeless wisdom, and a bounty of other goodies designed to make you go, \"Hmm that's interesting!\"","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T22:18:08.351287+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/infinite-loops-259760"},"episode":{"title":"Brian Potter - How to Fix America's Building Problem","slug":"brian-potter-how-to-fix-america-s-building-problem","published_at":"2026-04-23T12:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/infinite-loops-259760/brian-potter-how-to-fix-america-s-building-problem","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/infinite-loops-259760","url":"https://infiniteloopspodcast.com/311","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/infiniteloops/OSV_POTTER_Episode_AUDIO.mp3?dest-id=1666472","summary":"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 anti-growth turn, and the deeper logic behind local opposition to growth: concentrated harms and diffuse benefits. Important Links: Read Brian's newsletter Construction Physics here: https://www.construction-physics.com/ Read Brian's book The Origins of Efficiency here: https://press.stripe.com/origins-of-efficiency Learn more about Brian here: https://ifp.org/author/brian-potter","meta_description":"Why has America become so bad at building housing, infrastructure, and major projects? Brian Potter, author of The Origins of Efficiency and writer of Con…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4380,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/infinite-loops-259760/episodes/brian-potter-how-to-fix-america-s-building-problem/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/infinite-loops-259760/brian-potter-how-to-fix-america-s-building-problem.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}