He's brought along his sisters, Kristi and Libby, and all three excitedly tour the home where they grew up. They haven't been back in some years and the current owners have refurbished (fortunately, the Gates siblings seem to approve of the changes).

how tf did I just find out about this: 🤯

politics

No one voted for Elon musk. He’s a foreigner. Where is our American Bigotry when you need it? It’s been easy to mistreat Africans for these 250 years. Hate watching people simp for this foreigner.

Memes

Nature

Grand rising my beautiful friends. I hope you all have a wonderful day today. No sun yet, but the vibes are still here! GM. Have the best day ever today

Base

Build long term things, with long term builders.

I believe the Hyperliquid ecosystem presents an asymmetric opportunity for the rest of the cycle and will be intentionally spending more time understanding what all is going on there

Podcasts

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."

America

More people should know about Roy Cohn. Good movie:

More people should know about Roy Cohn. Good movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTrHL7Vo_SQ

Interesting factoid: The Seljuk Turkification of Anatolia in the 11th century was by like ~500k actual Turks from Central Asia converting ~12m Greek or Armenian speak Christians. Mostly peacefully it appears. Rumi and early Sufis had a lot to do with it, as did abandonment by a distant bureaucratic Orthodox Church in Constantinople that had long stopped serving any spiritual needs. It was a meaning crisis.

Also the Turks succeeded where the Arabs had given up because the grasslands were cold like the steppes and made for good pastures, unlike the agricultural land of Mesopotamia. They turned farmland into pastures. Agriculture only returned to Anatolia in modern times.

Fascinating.

nobody with the slightest clue about the south african social and political context would say something like this.

disappointingly, elon musk is also clueless but that doesn't surprise me despite the fact that he literally grew up in apartheid

Ethereum

We had ACDE#204 earlier today, full recap is now up on EthMagicians 🧙

We had ACDE#204 earlier today, full recap is now up on EthMagicians 🧙

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/all-core-devs-execution-acde-204-january-30-2025/22594

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