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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."

"Be kind, work hard, stay humble, and success will follow."

"Challenges teach more than comfort does."

"Don’t be afraid to fail; be afraid of never trying. Fear limits growth, action leads to results."

"Every challenge is an opportunity to grow stronger. Don’t shy away from difficulty, embrace it fully."

"Success isn’t just about achieving goals; it’s about the lessons learned and growth gained along the way."

"The journey is the reward. Embrace every step, no matter how uncertain or difficult it may seem."

Announcing the Warpcast Q4 Retro grant winners! 

Over 50 teams received grants for building on top of Farcaster. If you received a grant, please reply to this cast with a Github profile that is eligible to accept donations. 

The full list is here: https://warpcast.notion.site/Warpcast-Q4-2024-Grants-1826a6c0c10180149388f060f2f05388?pvs=74

Huge thanks Warpcast team for the retro grant to Bountycaster. $10k is a meaningful amount to us as a bootstrapped team and helps pay our expenses 🙏

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recommended essay

does the intersection of major technology advancements with boredom = chaos?

recommended essay

does the intersection of major technology advancements with boredom = chaos?

https://mhdempsey.substack.com/p/boredom-chaos-and-the-experimental

Obsidian

Obsidian 1.8.3 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile

Release notes:

Obsidian 1.8.3 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile

Release notes:
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-01-28-desktop-v1.8.3/

PSA if you haven’t used an LLM to finally clean up your .zshrc / .bashrc files and purge them of years of accumulated bullshit,,, trust me. it feels amazing, go do it rn

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Rodeo

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echoinghorizon

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