The Bill Gates origin story isn't rags to riches. His dad was a lawyer, money wasn't tight, although the decision to send their son to private school to try to motivate him was "a stretch, even on my father's salary".

how tf did I just find out about this: 🤯

japanese-music

80s Japanese synth pop hardly gets better than this

80s Japanese synth pop hardly gets better than this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=515fqvIAGyg

Nature

Happy tree Tuesday fam🦚

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲

dating

maturing is realizing 99.9999999% of humans make me uncomfortable …

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."

philadelphia

yup.. yup…  I have a soft spot for how China treats their robots 

Unsupervised Robots have a target on their back in Philadelphia for sure. .

Consumer Crypto

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i always said once i learn to code, it's game over. 

turns out, i don't need to learn to code. 

with Ohara (ohara.ai), anyone (including me) can easily turn any idea into an app on crypto rails, complete with Privy's embedded wallets. now i know my weekend plans :)

politics

There's a 78% chance Trump ends USAID in his first 100 days.

Elon says Trump agrees that USAID needs to be ‘shut down’.

After being accepted onto the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, Illia and his mother packed a suitcase each and made the journey to Wales, taking a train to Poland, a flight to London and a bus to Cardiff where they were met by their hosts.

𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔟𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔭

“you should go to ETH Denver”

me: I don’t have money to go to ETH denver

“wdym it’s free”

me: yea because you can just teleport to denver  -_- 

“use the money you just got”

me an independent artist:

williamsburg

just saw a guy walking down street with bag of golf clubs,,, where is he coming from? did he like travel to chelsea driving range with his whole golf bag? 

he couldn’t have actually played golf on a golf course rn could he? they can’t be open??

Realized last week I've been adding about 9 subscribers per day to my mailing list via download gates on my website. It was only around 3/day a year ago. 

Just added country & region selectors to the gate

direct-to-fan > platforms!

The worst part about crypto conferences is meeting amazing people from around the world, spending a week together, and then not seeing them for six months or a year

The best part about crypto conferences is getting to meet amazing people from around the world and spend a week together

Explorer of AI & Web3, dedicated to bridging technology and humanity.

GeorgiaRhodes

@georgiarhodes