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Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Chris Paik is an investor and co-founder of Pace Capital.

Chris is all about intentionality and discovery.

He combines rigorous frameworks about incentives, people, and markets with an insatiable appetite for the new. He is a true original thinker.

We discuss his intentionality, approach to explanations, how culture follows a pendulum, the efficient market hypothesis and other frameworks for evaluating businesses and markets—including his newest on top-down vs. bottom-up companies, how he finds new stuff, the pros and cons of the internet and capitalism, Pace Capital’s values, and the inner-workings of Chris’s unusual mind.

Episode 6 is out now on all platforms, more links below: 

https://pods.media/dialectic/6-chris-paik-intentionally-in-search-of-the-new?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

Chris Paik on incentives, capital, systems, and power:

"The world has two sides: a for-profit world and a non-profit world. There are entities that are trying to drive profits, and there are entities that are not trying to drive profits (governments, religions).

For-profit companies are really good at pushing the world to the way that it will be. They are very bad at being paternalistic. They’ll give people exactly what they want.

The non-profit side is really good at pushing the world into how it should be. It’s really good at being paternalistic. We as individual actors depend on the systems to imbue society with paternalism."

We’re not defined by what we’ve lost, but by what we’re still willing to become.

Time doesn’t heal; it teaches us how to cope.

Not all storms come to disrupt. Some are meant to help us find our way forward.

Life moves at its own pace. All we can do is learn to move with it, gracefully.

The smallest acts of kindness can create ripples of change, making the world a little brighter for everyone.

Embrace discomfort, it's where growth begins.

Sometimes, the hardest battles lead to the most rewarding victories. Keep going, even when the path feels uncertain.

co founder of @metamask . Making computers behave for us.

Earlier this morning @danfinlay's account posted a message about a token. This message wasn't posted by Dan and we've been looking into what may have happened. 

We're still investigating and don't have a root cause yet, but believe this issue only affects this particular account. More details in thread.

we will speedrun all extremes at an increasing rate

soundscapes

https://www.nts.live/shows/franchise-radio/episodes/franchise-radio-11th-january-2025

Ethereum

If you could force everyone at the EF, from Vitalik to a hypothetical new hire on their first day, to do 3-10 things onchain tomorrow, what would they be?

It's surreal to see cryptobros cheer on blatant capture by 1 country, real or imagined, by heavily shilling "American coins", with very little resistance

Just more evidence for what we all know - very few give a fuck about defending a neutral globally accessible system, it's all about greed & whatever pumps your bags

TRX? Did Justin Sun show fealty and donate a huge sum to his campaign?

politics

Three days before the inauguration, Trump has launched a memecoin that has since risen more than 10,000%

He did so after inviting the Crypto Industry to a black tie event in DC

Here’s my theory on $TRUMP, which is almost diabolical, but totally something Trump is capable of 🧵

This has 14 likes on here. On X, Eric Trump retweeted it. We need more famous people on here.

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