Jackson Dahl
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Before: Investor /paradigm, Founding team /100thieves
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Dialectic 33: TBPN (John Coogan & Jordi Hays) - Inside Tech's Water Cooler
I talked to @johncoogan and @jordi about making magic everyday behind the desk at TBPN. They have take the tech business world by storm over the last year with their daily news show.
They are masters of daily compounding, and we talked about t...
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I'm going full time on /dialectic with the support of Notion.
A few thoughts on what the future holds, what Dialectic means to me, and why Notion is the perfect presenting partner:
A year ago, I started interviewing some of my smart friends without much of a strategy. I quickly realized that despite the lack of a gra...
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12 Lessons from @johncoogan
and @jordi on building TBPN:
1. You can’t copy compounding.
2. Discipline eliminates inspiration as a bottleneck.
3. Entertain, inspire or educate—Simply.
4. Go high and low at the same time.
5. Borrow laterally, not recursively.
6. Your niche is enough.
7. The show is the end, not the me...
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I talked to Chris Sacca about storytelling, risk, and playing the game of life by your own scorecard.
Chris is one of the great early-stage investors ever, a massive climate and nuclear fusion investor, an incredible writer, a provocateur, a former Shark (Tank), and my old boss.
Sadly for the rest of us, Chris is les...
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Gabe Whaley and the team at MSCHF have spent a decade perfecting the art of going viral on a biweekly cadence. Now they've given up their own rule.
I talked to him about how they got here, what they value, and what it will take to make mischief that lasts.
You may know MSCHF by some of their viral shoes (Big Red Boo...
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Why David Senra of Founders Podcast's #1 most listened to podcast is his own: repetition doesn’t spoil the prayer!
/dialectic Ep. 30: David Senra - The Clarity of Commitment
David Senra is a podcaster and loves that title more than anyone.
He hosts Founders, where he teaches the lessons of history's greatest entrepreneurs by way of the biographies he reads of them. This week, he launched a second show, David Senra, where he talk
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16 Lessons from /dialectic Ep. 30 w/ David Senra, on creating work people still talk about in 30 years
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/dialectic Ep. 30: David Senra - The Clarity of Commitment
David Senra is a podcaster and loves that title more than anyone.
He hosts Founders, where he teaches the lessons of history's greatest entrepreneurs by way of the biographies he reads of them. This week, he launched a second show, David Senra, where he talk...
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18 bits of wisdom from Billy Oppenheimer (and his many influences) on process, discovery, and becoming, from Ep. 29 of /dialectic
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/dialectic Ep. 29: Billy Oppenheimer - Attuned to Clues
I talked to Billy Oppenheimer about looking for clues, letting inputs guide outputs, and the daily practice of becoming.
Billy is a researcher and writer who works with Ryan Holiday and Rick Rubin. I've long admired his curiosity and nose for wisdom. Talking to ...
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/dialectic Ep. 28: Maxwell Meyer - Starships & Road Trips
17 Lessons from my conversation about progress, America, capitalism, and more with Max Meyer of Arena Magazine:
1. America’s lodestar is the Declaration of Independence. The founding myth (all men are created equal…) it represents is unique in history, and ups...
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Dialectic Ep. 27: Mackenzie Burnett - Accounting for America
I talked to Mackenzie Burnett about building financial tools for the independent businesses of America's heartland.
Mackenzie is the template of a deeply serious, strategic, and tactical entrepreneur whose engine is not purely ambition, but purpose. Hearing...
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I talked to Cyan Banister about her unique approach to living with childlike wonder in a world of sleepwalking adults.
Cyan lives a singular life. She's radically accountable and optimistic despite teenage homelessness, adores other people despite feeling like an alien, and is a world-class investor (in SpaceX, Uber, ...
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I talked to Reggie James (@hipcityreg) about his unique influences and belief that technology is a mirror that reflects and evolves with us -- for
/dialectic's first live episode!
Reggie combines a unique set of references and inspirations to bring a fresh perspective to philosophy, design, and discussions in the wor...
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I talked to Linus Lee about how technology and software might enable "instruments for superagency," amplifying our humanity rather than diminishing us.
Linus's stated mission is using software to help us become clearer thinkers and more prolific dreamers.
Today, he builds and explores how AI can enable the the teams...
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