Jackson Dahl
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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.
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Steph Ango (@kepano) on /obsidian's small team, user-supported, no-investor structure:
"I just like the Ocean's Eleven model the best."
Steph reflects on different ways to build companies and how in today's world, you can build something quite ambitious with a small group:
"In the previous company that I ran, whenever we had a problem, it was like, 'Who can we hire who is an expert on this problem?' We'd go find the best person, hire them, and then empower them to solve this problem.
Now, if we have this problem, hiring is off the table. We basically don't hire. We have seven people full-time. We probably have three or four million users, and we're seven people. That's pretty crazy. It's definitely possible to do something like that."
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/dialectic w/ Steph Ango (@kepano) is out now.
Steph is a designer, artist, entrepreneur, toolmaker, and CEO of
/obsidian, the tool I use to write, think, and store my ideas.
This is a must-listen for any designer or creative person. We discuss constraints, style, principles, reduction, digital durability, investing time, choosing what to work on, compounding, patience, and communicating your ideas.
Steph has worked across mediums: hardware, software, industrial design, packaging, open-source, content, instruments, and more. He's a toolmaker first and foremost, and we talk about how creative constraints enable us to stoke the flame inside us.
Steph is a prolific writer whose clarity and concision inspire me, and we discuss many of his most empowering ideas.
I believe these ideas will challenge you in unexpected ways and push you to be more creative, agentic, and optimistic.
Pods:
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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:
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