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Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Ep. 9 of /dialectic w @jacob is live.

Jacob is co-founder & CEO of /zora, a platform that allows anyone to tokenize media. He's spent his career thinking about how blockchains, tokens, markets, and ideas enable internet-native coordination.

They're building on Stewart Brand's premise that "information wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive.” In an internet era where content is abundant and effectively free, it is also expensive to consume and create—not by way of money, but time.

We discuss a world where markets around attention and content allow better coordination around what information is worth our time.

We also discuss why memes are so powerful, speculation vs. gambling, reflections on popular crypto ideas and Zora's history, Coinbase and co-creating USDC, and many other topics that showcase Jacob's generative creativity, unique ways of thinking, and inspirations.

https://pods.media/dialectic/9-jacob-horne-markets-for-what-matters?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

“Speculation is imagination with action.” 
 
@jacob on how speculation can be a superpower and markets can turn PVP energy into positive sum outcomes:

“Speculation is how you express an opinion.  It is how you can take some agency over what you actually want to see happen in the world.

“People conflate speculation and gambling. [You can ask] Is this zero-sum speculation or positive-sum speculation? Betting is zero-sum.

Positive-sum information markets can lead to the creation of information that is durable and useful to the people consuming it.”

/dialectic ep. 9 with Jacob Horne is available on all platforms.

I am pausing my activity on Warpcast for the foreseeable future due to the current issue with large number of bots.

Recent posts over the past few months have received hundreds of likes and recasts coming mostly from bots.

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Obsidian

Obsidian 1.8.7 is now available to all for desktop and mobile — lots of small bug fixes.

Mobile changelog
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-02-18-mobile-v1.8.7

Desktop changelog

Obsidian 1.8.7 is now available to all for desktop and mobile — lots of small bug fixes.

Mobile changelog
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-02-18-mobile-v1.8.7

Desktop changelog
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-02-18-desktop-v1.8.7

Believeinyourselfandallthatyouare.Knowthatthereissomethinginsideyouthatisgreaterthananyobstacle.

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