🇧🇷🇺🇸 - Book: Making Things Think: https://holloway.com/mtt Investor in Wander, Carry, Footprint, Merkle Manufactory (Farcaster), Dynamic, Paragraph

“Mom, how did we get so rich?”

“Your dad was basically shitposting everyday on Farcaster and was at the top of the leaderboard every week”

What’s your favorite rainy day activity?

Crypto @ Coinbase, foreign policy, political theory. yugacohler.twitter

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Coinbase's AgentKit integrates seamlessly with OpenAI's Agents SDK.

Podcasts

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."

"A good laugh is medicine for the soul. Find humor in every situation."

"The more you let go, the lighter you become. Release what holds you back, and fly free."

"Growth is uncomfortable, but it’s the only way to expand your limits and unlock new possibilities."

"Life doesn’t always give you answers. Sometimes, it gives you questions that lead to deeper understanding."

"Sometimes the best path is the one you least expect. Embrace uncertainty and let it lead you forward."

Economics

Re-read the 2013 essay Bullshit Jobs, and I have a lot of new thoughts since I first read it. Primarily, it’s the greatest argument that AI will never put humans out of work. We’ll just invent new jobs for the humans.

Re-read the 2013 essay Bullshit Jobs, and I have a lot of new thoughts since I first read it. Primarily, it’s the greatest argument that AI will never put humans out of work. We’ll just invent new jobs for the humans. https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

AI art

what are people using go generate art on the fly these days? For free or paid? I've been using Krea.ai bc you can do some generation for free. Is Midjourney still the move?

Product

the-arena

building /nash

this week we:

* onboarded our first users!
* built some cool agents during our internal hackathon
* optimized our tool dev environment for faster tool creation
* deployed farcaster research agents to track product launches and new features (see below). shout-out to @winnie for the idea!

Damn I just tried out nash.run 
(onceupon.gg team's new product)

1. I launched a new agent ("Steve")
2. Steve trades SOL coins so I *never* have to
3. Nash team sent me $10 to a Phantom wallet
4. Steve bought me a shitter called $AIDEEP which returned the fund 10x in 5 min. Lol.

^all this in 30 min... 👀

crookedpathway

@crookedpathway