Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Dialectic Ep. 8 with Steph Ango is available on all platforms:

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4aJIQ2I

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4jLY6zY

YouTube: https://bit.ly/DialecticYT8

Transcript: https://jacksondahl.com/Dialectic/Transcripts/8+-+Steph+Ango+-+Tools+for+Amplifying+Our+Light

Talk: /dialectic Write: jdahl.substack.com
Before: Investor /paradigm, Founding team /100thieves
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Life’s greatest moments don’t always come from plans, but from moments we never saw coming.

Every setback carries a lesson we must embrace.

We tend to underestimate the power of small actions. They compound into profound change over time.

It’s easy to get lost in the noise. Find stillness, and you’ll discover clarity in chaos.

The world changes when we choose differently.

If you wait for the perfect moment, you'll miss the imperfect opportunities that bring real growth and progress.

The beauty of life lies not in the grand moments, but in the quiet spaces between them that we cherish.

New piece: Why (good) AI needs crypto.

TLDR: Closed AI is anti-competitive. Open source AI hits a “resource problem” (huge compute/data costs). Crypto fixes this by incentivizing resource contributions via ownership—unlocking bigger models & faster innovation.
🔗👇

https://variant.fund/articles/why-good-ai-needs-crypto/

A lot of hot air out there on Crypto x AI.

This piece is makes the fundamental case for why crypto stands to make AI better on the merits.

Base

on $TRUMP:

to everyone: a huge win for crypto - the overton window is shifted and many new people coming onchain.

to solana: reaffirms your awesome work, proud to build alongside you. 

to based builders: THIS IS THE BEGINNING. time to buckle down, keep building, stay based.

Ethereum

AMA about the EF, I'll answer whatever I can!

sustaining innovation: political betting onchain
disruptive innovation: political memecoins

(summer of) protocol {support | guild | fellowship} ☀️


Wiki post on Eth Magicians is the place to start.  It is markdown so you can use your fave AI to do a first pass.
https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/friendly-names-for-final-eips/22567

cc @v

Trump just launched his official meme coin on Solana

Massive Overton Window shifting events create massive new surface areas for opportunity.

Will be a chaotic, weird and exhausting year.

Buckle up.

FIP: Labels

A data standard to annonate context about accounts like language, humanity, spamminess and other qualities.

Labels will make it easy to generate public datasets that are useful for app developers to categorize casts and users.

FIP: Labels

A data standard to annonate context about accounts like language, humanity, spamminess and other qualities.

Labels will make it easy to generate public datasets that are useful for app developers to categorize casts and users. 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/216

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