Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

I interviewed D.A. Wallach on a curiosity-driven career, systems thinking in medicine, and the thread of beauty across markets, medicine, and music.

His unlikely path:
- his band Chester French discovered by Kanye & Pharrell while at Harvard
- Early angel in SpaceX + Spotify & Spotify’s first Artist-in-Residence
- Now co-runs Time BioVentures backing frontier life-science

We cover:
- Cold-email serendipity & web surfing in the OG sense
- Complexity science & the Santa Fe Institute—giving scientists permission to ask basic questions
- Pitching the Federal Reserve (in high school)
- CRISPR, GLP-1s, and why biotech moves “gradually, then suddenly”
- LLMs returning agency to patients and nudging us toward universal care
- how tech makes us creatively lazy and what it would mean to be the Herbie Hancock of AI music
- Artists reclaiming “cool" over dorks
- D.A.’s anonymous, Tylerthe Creator-directed music video

And more. Available on all platforms

Talk: /dialectic Write: jdahl.substack.com
Before: Investor /paradigm, Founding team /100thieves
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Pods: https://pods.media/dialectic/15-da-wallach-serendipity-systems?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC