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. https://pods.media/dialectic/9-jacob-horne-markets-for-what-matters?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

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9: @jacob Horne - Markets for What Matters is also available now on Zora https://zora.co/coin/base:0xca96f690b4611ad19686c38b0de46b6aed1317f3?referrer=0xf67fA59E75754a949DF9ff634952803A2ED6eaE2

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Listen to @jacob discuss the philosophy behind the newest version of Zora -- "a coin for every piece of content" on Dialectic Ep. 9: Available on all platforms: https://bit.ly/4b8OknL

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“Speculation is imagination with action.” @jacob on how speculation can be a superpower and markets can turn PVP energy into positive sum outcomes: “Speculation is how you express an opinion. It is how you can take some agency over what you actually want to see happen in the world. “People conflate speculation and gambling. [You can ask] Is this zero-sum speculation or positive-sum speculation? Betting is zero-sum. Positive-sum information markets can lead to the creation of information that is durable and useful to the people consuming it.” /dialectic ep. 9 with Jacob Horne is available on all platforms.

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Very excited for tomorrow's guest after a week off. Think it will be a popular one for Farcaster folks! 🌞

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Excuse me officer I’d like to report identity theft

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Well that escalated quickly

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Has anyone ever made anything better than this scene? https://x.com/TheCinesthetic/status/1889347916445417581

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Choose your champion: the great online gladiator arena I think the inverse relationship will also be true: Champions will become generals who command their armies of tribal fandom to do their bidding and move markets by way of attention https://x.com/zxocw/status/1889059358362968402

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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." Full episode avail on all podcast platforms, links below.

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Steph Ango (@kepano)'s 'Stadium of selves': "Let's say you live 80 years, and each new day is one person, it would fill up a stadium. 60K days in that stadium represent 60K people. And so, your current self—today's self— is on stage. You're in the middle of the stadium and all of your past and future selves are sitting in the audience. Anything I've ever really tried to create was for a version of myself."

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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: https://pods.media/dialectic/8-steph-ango-tools-for-amplifying-our-light?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

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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."

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Toby Shorin (@toby) is a researcher, writer, and cultural anthropologist for the internet era. We discuss themes that run across his writing, interrogating how social forms, practices, and beliefs shape us as individuals and the collectives we are part of. Ep. 7 out now on all platforms. https://pods.media/dialectic/7-toby-shorin-the-shapes-of-culture?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

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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: https://pods.media/dialectic/6-chris-paik-intentionally-in-search-of-the-new?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

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A classic example of naïveté being an advantage! Fun to reminisce. I wrote some more and linked to Carlos’s full retrospective here https://x.com/jacksondahl/status/1880693173413924997

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This prompted me to revisit the Ricoh GRiii/X rabbit hole. Curious for strong opinions and which to get if so (28mm vs 40mm)? I want to shoot more non-iPhone and would like to shoot people a good chunk of time but ultimate priority is flexibility, portability (having on me), ease

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How does @fakepixels live in the philosophical world of ideas and the pragmatic world of action? "I think the philosophical side is about interpreting or seeing realities—plural, and the doer and operator side is about defining reality—singular. That is a very empowering idea."

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So much of career and creative growth is about the (endless) journey toward aligning your taste and your abilities @fakepixels reflects on how venture capital early in your career sets a very high bar for taste Ep. 5 of /dialectic is available now.

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