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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."

In a world of noise, find peace in quiet moments, even when it’s hard to find.

et go of fear; embrace the freedom to grow.

Life is about exploring, learning, and sometimes failing—each step shapes the path you’ll eventually follow.

People are afraid of change, but change is the only thing that allows real growth to happen.

Moments of silence often reveal truths we’re too busy to notice in the noise of daily life.

Don’t rush to find answers. Sometimes, the questions themselves teach you more than any solution could.

Stablecoin inflows into exchanges remain positive.📈

But momentum has cooled!

🔹 Liquidity is still net inflow, supporting the market.
🔹 However, current levels are significantly lower than late 2024 / early Jan 2025.

Connections on the @walletconnect network are skyrocketing 🚀

The dominance of @WalletConnect is unparallelled, some stats:

77%+ yearly growth with unique monthly addresses using WalletConnect growing from 2.6m to 4.6m+, bringing the historical total to 38m+

25% avg. month over month growth in network usage, bringing in the total to over… https://t.co/plK5wKCanF

Peter / ‘pet3rpan’

Connections on the @walletconnect network are skyrocketing 🚀 
https://x.com/pet3rpan_/status/1884949714011041918

gloom

pro-crypto and pro-tariff is a strange place to be

Base

splits

Onchain Mercury*: Consumer grade UX in the front, open/global financial rails in the back

Every week we get closer. Got some good things cooking for Feb 👨‍🍳 

*Mercury delivers a wonderful web2 business banking experience, for the unfamiliar

I honestly think Splits is the most underrated product on Ethereum.

Who deserves to win NFL MVP?

Josh and Lamar have flipped each other as the favorite FIVE TIMES this month.

i'm seeing the same people who say "users dont care about decentralization" telling devs "now is the time for privacy" (which most users also dont care about today)

which is it?

build the world you want to see - not the one that fits your narrative

wintercraftr

@wintercraftr