Jackson Dahl
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Dialectic 51: Nan Ransohoff! Nan Ransohoff thinks more of the world's most impressive people should work in philanthropy. And that they needn't sacrifice ambition or upside to do so. Nan leads public goods at Stripe. That includes Frontier (carbon removal) and Intercept (respiratory illness). She's also written about how we need more "general managers" (read: more 'Nan's) and how philanthropy is about to undergo explosive growth thanks to AI money. I talked to Nan about: - GMs and identifying orphaned problems to own end-to-end - coordinating the market to spend billions to suck carbon from the sky and end the common cold - how vision is in short supply - what philanthropy can learn from startups and VCs - the third wave of American philanthropy (driven by billions in OAI/Anthropic philanthropic dollars that will need to be spent) - how many things we may want (good, beauty, meaning) may be harder to quantify and thus require a different philanthropic approach - getting off the "gold star" established path and choosing a life and ambition of her own making Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:15 - Intro to Nan 4:53 - Start: What is a Nan? Nerd-Sniped by Orphaned Problems 12:39 - GMs, Seeing the Chessboard, and Working Backwards from Outcomes 18:55 - Good Taste in Problems, Vision, and Good Finish Lines 35:43 - Advance Market Commitments Tactically Solving Carbon Removal 41:35 - Focus and Sketching Out or Slicing Up Messy Problems 49:39 - Legibility, Public Rallying, and Ambition in Philanthropy 54:38 - Third Wave Philanthropy and Hard to Quantify Problems 1:06:50 - Risk Tolerance in Philanthropy and Scarcity of Funders and Allocators 1:15:22 - The $40B Tidal Wave of New AI-Money and Why Start Now 1:19:53 - Amount of Capital, Government Philanthropy, and Making Philanthropic Founders Rich 1:31:44 - Nan's Mid-Career Inflection Point and Getting Off the Obvious Path 1:39:47 - Grab-bag: Why Stripe Funds Public Goods, Making Things with Friends, Creative Partnership, Iceland Drone, and Scone Heads 1:49:39 - Syllabi for the Squishy Topics & Study vs. Experience 1:57:01 - Inputs & Outputs and GLPs for Attention 2:04:38 - Closing: Interviewing Parents and Imagining an Obituary Dialectic with Jackson Dahl 51: Nan Ransohoff - Power Laws for Philanthropy - is out now below and on all platforms.
Jackson Dahl51,262 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen
Dialectic ep. 50: Tyler Cowen & Nabeel Qureshi! You could talk to tylercowen and Nabeel S. Qureshi about anything and it would be interesting. Nabeel is a former guest and a true polymath who can go wide and deep. He'd long suggested I interview his friend and mentor Tyler: the epitome of that archetype. I wanted to do something special for 50, so I paired them together and hoped for some magic. I think we got some, and a few laughs, too. Despite their day jobs, Tyler and Nabeel are unlikely aesthetes who became friends in part through their shared love of film and art. So I spoke to them about how great art is often strange, aesthetic evolution, and a tour through some of their favorite artists (especially musicians). We also discussed sacred commitments, AI acceleration, good group chats, mentorship, whether Tyler will stop writing books, creating a bat signal for talent, becoming a great interviewer, Twitter's virtues, New York City, and more. Timestamps 0:00 - Opening highlights 1:18 - Intro to Tyler & Nabeel 4:38 - Sacred commitments, AI, markets & acceleration 20:36 - How art moves us 27:22 - Beauty, strangeness, great art & The Beatles 44:35 - Film, critics, learning to appreciate depth & "lowbrow" art 1:02:55 - New aesthetics, inspiration, optimism & pessimism 1:11:52 - The internet & Twitter's virtue, group chats, cities 1:22:06 - Mentors, (maybe quitting) writing books, friendship 1:35:27 - Interviewing, identifying talent & agency 1:47:21 - Closing questions Dialectic with Jackson Dahl 50: Tyler Cowen & Nabeel Qureshi - An Appetite for More - is available below and on all platforms. Links in reply.
Jackson Dahl93,678 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen
Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to Andrew Reed about conviction under pressure, what great founders look like, and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside Sequoia Capital. Andrew is a growth investor at Sequoia Capital, which he joined at 23. He led his first investment 4 years later into Robinhood, and he has partnered with Figma, Klarna, Phantom, @VantaInc, , MUBI, Strava, and more. We discuss: - People over spreadsheets, every time - Why great companies often have a few metrics screaming red and others screaming bright green - Investing $200M into Robinhood during the first week of COVID - How he developed conviction on Vanta in 14 seconds - Why the hardest round to invest in is the one after you first invest - Craft as a commercial input - Writing memos through the night as a gut check on conviction - why Sequoia's extreme performance culture is empowering - What he's learned from Doug Leone, Mike Moritz, and Pat Grady Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 2:02 - Intro: Andrew Reed 3:50 - Thanks to Notion 5:23 - Start: Humanity, Spotting Weird, and Competitiveness 19:07 - Investing & Great Founders 37:53 - Andrew's Style, Pat Grady, and Continuous Learning 47:31 - Doubling Down and Not Flinching 56:09 - Empathy on Boards, Learning the Real Business, "Expensive" Prices, and Selling 1:07:18 - Managing Ego and Becoming a Leader 1:14:08 - Craft as a Commercial Input, Knowing vs. Feeling, Preparing for Big Days, Becoming a Great Closer 1:28:39 - Sequoia Capital 1:38:57 - Don Valentine, Mike Moritz, and Doug Leone 1:51:29 - Closing Questions Dialectic with Jackson Dahl Ep. 39: Andrew Reed - Don't Flinch - is out now, below and on all platforms.
Jackson Dahl266,272 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Jasmine Sun quit her tech job to tell the world about what she's seeing up close in Silicon Valley. Dialectic 49: jasmine sun! I talked to her about the depth behind SF's memes, why quitting her job wasn't risky, and her "AlphaGo" moment--and why she'll keep writing anyway. Jasmine writes independently on Substack--where she used to lead core product--and for publications like The Atlantic and The New York Times. Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:30 - Intro to Jasmine 3:24 - Start: Being a "Historian of Vibe" and Learning to Look 15:00 - Taste for Questions & The Depth Behind Memes 24:28 - Translating Between Silicon Valley and The World 40:27 - Substack vs. "Serious" Journalism and Integrity as a Writer 47:35 - Integrity when Using AI and the AlphaGo Question 58:42 - Strategy Across Publications & Maximizing an Idea's Reach 1:06:45 - Going Independent, Risk, and Commercial Tradeoffs 1:24:35 - Great Writing: Style, Voice, and Resisting Summary 1:35:35 - Literary Inspirations, Favorite Essays, Writing vs. Thinking, and Getting Better 1:51:09 - Writing to Publish, Authenticity, and Art 2:00:38 - Grab Bag: China, Silicon Valley's Virtues and Problems, AI Transition, The Relational Economy, Parties, Debates, Self Belief, and More Full episode of Dialectic with Jackson Dahl 49: Jasmine Sun - Close Enough to See Clearly - as well as transcript and links to all platforms are available below.
Jackson Dahl51,716 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Jared Weinstein is deeply trusted and quietly effective. He is a friend to many. This is his first interview. From President Bush, to Thrive's team and founders, to new leaders building in his hometown of Birmingham and globally, Jared Weinstein is an amplifier of people. We discuss: - Cold-calling the Bush campaign in college, joining them in the run up to 2000, and not dropping out - Becoming the President's personal aide (or "body man") in his mid-20s, what the President does, and how little Jared slept - an unlikely partnership with Joshua Kushner that led to over a decade building the now-legendary Thrive Capital - what it was like helping Palantir in the very early days - Bringing seriousness and humanity to work, whether the West Wing or investing - the three-body problem of ego, ambition, and impact - why people trust Jared and how he helps them become their best selves - east vs. west coast ambition, across DC, SF, and NY - how he's investing in Birmingham, why cities change and thrive, and helping people raise their ambition - championing those who champion you Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:40 - Intro to Jared 3:32 - Thanks to Notion 4:39 - Start: Being a "Friend" and Bringing Humanity to Serious Work 10:55 - From Duke to the West Wing 31:45 - Riding Shotgun with President Bush 59:27 - Starting Over Out West: Post-WH, Stanford, and Palantir 1:16:05 - Meeting Josh Kushner and Building Thrive Capital 1:44:37 - Founders, Humility, and the Three-Body Problem of Ego, Ambition, and Impact 2:06:41 - Leaving Thrive, Coming Home to Birmingham, and Overton 2:32:40 - Busier Than Ever: Mentors, Life in Acts, and What You Hope to Be Known For Dialectic with Jackson Dahl 44: Jared Weinstein - Within Earshot, Out of Camera Shot - is available below and on all platforms.
Jackson Dahl87,112 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Nicholas Thompson is a disciplined machine (Atlantic CEO, record-holding runner, perpetual achiever) and a wholehearted human (insatiable interviewer, loving father, lifelong student). I talked to nxthompson about what makes words worth reading in an AI world, the discipline of long form, and what compounds when you keep showing up. Nick is the CEO of The Atlantic, the American record holder in the 50K, and the author of The Running Ground—a book about inheritance, pushing oneself, and remembering that life remains richer than we can possibly know. We discuss whether I am a journalist; why The Atlantic matters, great editing and coaching; lessons from David Remnick and the gift of commercial constraints from Laurene Powell Jobs; daily momentum and how tiny tailwinds compound; getting paced to a 5-minute mile by his 15-year-old son; inheritance and Nick's exuberant, chaotic dad; the part of Nick's book that he's never been asked about; and why we are capable of much more than we think. Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:17 - Intro to Nick 3:30 - Start: Words, Reading, and Writing in an Automated World 18:39 - Why Stories Matter and What Makes a Journalist 28:22 - Media Institutions, The Atlantic, Democracy, Tech, and Power 44:21 - Retaining Great Writers and The Virtues of Editors (and Coaches) 57:44 - Magazines and America 1:05:57 - Running, Motivation, Momentum, and Tailwinds 1:16:08 - Aging, Fathers and Sons, Inheritance, and a Mother's Grace 1:31:00 - Merging Machine-like Discipline and Wild Curiosity, The Boat that Never Touched Water, and Who We Might Still Become 1:44:11 - Gratitude, Stalin's Daughter, Scott Thompson's Verve, and Feeling Most Alive Episode 45 of Dialectic with Jackson Dahl: Nicholas Thompson - A Life of Long Form - is available on all platforms and below. This was a special one for me. Please enjoy.
Jackson Dahl72,533 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Dialectic Ep. 46 w/ Nix 🕊! Nicole Seah, aka Nix, thinks reality is more beautiful than fantasy. We talk about what beauty asks of us, the freedom of holding multiple identities, and loving what's real. She writes essays at her newsletter, starting from nix, invests in early-stage startups, and recently launched New Ontologies, where she writes independent field studies of ambitious founders and companies. Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:14 - Intro to Nicole 2:04 - Thanks to Notion 3:48 - Start: Beauty — Effort, Attention, Strangeness 19:59 - Fantasy and Reality 29:41 - Multiple Identities, Intensity, and Lightness 49:08 - New Ontologies: Profiling Founders Building the Future 1:08:57 - Memory, Lineage, and Process 1:18:41 - Appetite and Honesty 1:23:47 - Friendship, Proximity, and The Unknowability of the Other 1:41:18 - Closing Notes: Solitude, Noticing, and Generosity Dialectic with Jackson Dahl 46: Nicole Seah - Loving What is Real - is out below and on all platforms.
Jackson Dahl56,611 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
One of my favorite podcasts ever is a 2022 conversation between C Thi Nguyen and Ezra Klein. I'm thrilled to continue the conversation in the interviewer seat today. Dialectic with Jackson Dahl Ep. 36: C Thi. Nguyen - Measurement, Meaning, and Play C. Thi Nguyen (C Thi Nguyen) is a professor of philosophy focused on games, values, data, and metrics. I visited him to discuss his new book, The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game. Thi is focused on a dilemma with scoring systems: 1) in games, they're are great: they allow game designers to sculpt the player's agency. By shaping goals, abilities, and obstacles, action becomes easy, even harmonious. The player can try on different roles, explore different values, and move "lightly between worlds" 2) in the real world, they flatten us: We've quantified our lives, and easily countable metrics produce what Thi calls "value capture." By obsessively measuring what matters, we only value what we can easily measure. We went deep on the personal and societal implications of this: - What are different types of agency? What is the shape of good values? What is the difference between recognition and perception? - How can we be more playful, in and out of games? How can we find more beauty in process, not outcomes? - How can we trust each other, scale progress, keep bad actors in check--all while not extracting nuance out of complex fields by relying too much on legible data? - Are objectivity and truth the same thing? Is technology really value-neutral? Available on all platforms below and here on X. Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:39 - Introduction to C. Thi Nguyen 5:13 - Thanks to Notion 6:31 - Start: What Does it Mean to Be Playful? 13:41 - Starting Local: Agency, Scoring Systems, and Games 23:36 - Value Capture: Incentives, Values, and the Collapse of Meaning 36:28 - What is the Shape of Good Values? 49:45 - Attention, Recognition vs. Perception, and Aesthetic Openness 58:46 - Process vs. Outcome, Striving Play vs. Achievement Play, Recipe vs. Dish 1:10:00 - Aesthetic Value & Autotelic Pursuits in Life 1:16:59 - Metrics, "Measure What Matters," and What We Miss 1:24:16 - Quantitative vs. Qualitative Ways of Knowing and Different Conceptions of Rules 1:38:01 - Scaling Trust, Data, Experts, and Legibility 1:54:37 - Objectivity & Truth, Value-Laden Technology & Decisions, and "Objectivity Laundering" 2:07:57 - Advice for Technologists: Ethics, Maps, Value-Neutrality, and Playfulness 2:18:52 - Closing Thanks to Notion
Jackson Dahl103,336 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Paul Scherer wants to create an AI that brings us closer to each other. paul and Eigen are building a "mutual friend" for the world. Critically, the mutual part is more important than the friend part. Imagine the best "connector" you know -- the person who is emotionally intelligent, thoughtful, and always bringing people together. What if they could be friends with a million people, rather than a few hundred? And what if they were entirely focused on creating more belonging in the world? Modern social media--due to hyper-personalization and broken incentives--makes us feel more and more estranged from the people we care about. AI chatbots focus on engagement and can be anti-social. Paul and Eigen are aiming for a pro-social AI friend who is more concerned with helping deepen and widen your relationships than getting you to talk to it for longer. We discuss what all this might look like, the challenges of "growing" a new person that isn't a bad actor, and what it feels like to be a prodigious 22-year-old who Peter Fenton compared to the founders of last generation's great social media companies--all before he’s publicly launched a product. Timestamps: 1:13 - Intro to Paul 3:28 - Start: 'Momo', Presence, Friendship, and Time 11:10 - How the Internet Connects Us and Isolates Us, and Conflating Social and Media 25:12 - A Future Where We Talk to AIs 33:55 - Paul and Eigen are Building a Mutual Friend to Help Us Connect with Other Humans 48:01 - Why Do We Need a Mutual Friend? And Making a Friend We Can Trust 1:16:53 - Belonging, Building the team at Eigen, and Inventor as Outlaw 1:25:38 - Managing the Psychology of Being a Promising Young Founder 1:36:53 - Maintaining a High Bar, Fighting Entropy, and Influences 1:53:50 - Self-belief, Authenticity, Seeing the Water 2:10:30 - Courage, and a Final Question from a Mutual Friend 2:16:27 - Eigen Office Tour with Paul Dialectic with Jackson Dahl 47: Paul Scherer - A Friend That Brings Us Closer - is out now on all platforms.
Jackson Dahl35,808 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Dialectic Ep. 48: Henri Stern Modern technologists--especially in crypto--are often deeply principled or impressively pragmatic. Henri Stern Ꙫ is both. I talked to Henri about digital privacy, the moral weight of building technology, the painful reality of realizing the market doesn't want what you're selling, and crypto's 'boring' era. Henri is co-founder and CEO of Privy, which Stripe acquired last year. Privy focuses on enabling developers to let their users hold crypto, and Henri works across a number of Stripe's efforts to bring more of the financial world onchain (in large part thanks to stablecoins). Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:40 - Intro to Henri 4:51 - Start: Technical Decisions are Moral Decisions 15:41 - Ambition, Startups, and Crypto 23:39 - Why Digital Privacy Matters: Self-Determination, Security, and Identity 41:52 - Embedded Wallets, the Pivot, and Privy's Core Bet 55:18 - Reinventing Around Stablecoins Without Abandoning Crypto-Natives 1:06:42 - Joining Stripe, Privy Today, and What Stripe Is Becoming 1:22:54 - Crypto's Future, Power Laws, Optimism and Pessimism 1:38:14 - Closing: Asta, Stripe's Leaders, Being French, and Never Compromising Available on all platforms below.
Jackson Dahl26,712 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Molly Mielke McCarthy is on a quest to find exceptional people before the world catches on. I talked to Molly Mielke McCarthy about the art of "peopling", playing your own game, vocation, and why great founders are often the least legible. Today, she runs Moth Fund, where she backs founders at the beginning. In the past, she's worked across design, product, and editorial at Figma, Notion, Stripe Press, The Browser Company, and scouted for Sequoia Capital. Her background in film and design echoes in the people she backs and in the quality of her curation and writing. Molly is people-centric yet fiercely individual, intuitive yet pragmatic, and truth-seeking yet full of care. We discuss: - Why it takes 3 months for her to know someone well enough to invest - Why authenticity is magnetic - The difference between agency and ambition - Why commerciality is a lens you can learn - Illegibility as private confidence, not public uncertainty - How your brand is a bell in other people's heads - Vocation as "stalking your calling" and then yielding to it - Why we should focus on doing something rather than being someone Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:29 - Intro to Molly 3:36 - Thanks to Notion 5:14 - Start: People, Spikeyness, and Discernment 21:36 - Agency and Ambition 34:45 - Commerciality 49:19 - Investing, Feedback Loops, and Creating a Bat Signal 59:46 - Coaching and Working with Young People 1:06:54 - Self-Knowledge, Uncertainty, "Should," Others' Acceptance, Motivations 1:16:38 - Illegibility & Legibility, Principles, Authentic Service 1:29:28 - Friends, Seeing in the Third Person, Femininity in a Masculine World, Love 1:42:07 - Grab Bag: Art, Catholicism, Gratitude, Beauty Dialectic with Jackson Dahl Ep. 38: Molly Mielke McCarthy - The Art of Peopling - is out now, below and on all platforms.
Jackson Dahl46,567 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
I don't know anyone who is as consistently ahead of culture than Trevor McFedries. I talked to Trev🙃r is hiring DM me! about culture, markets, technology, curiosity, why selling out is punk now, and why creative people should be rich. Trevor has lived many lives: touring DJ who produced a top 10 album, co-creator of lil miquela, founder of Friends With Benefits... among many others (go watch the last 10 seconds of KATY PERRY's I Kissed a Girl music video). Today, he's the founder of new co runner.rodeo and is 1/2 of electronic dance duo SofTT. He also has a fantastic nose for weird, bridges high and low status worlds across culture, capital, art, and tech, and truly lives natively between the frontiers of tech and culture. We talked about: - Why the only creative people who can "opt out" of the algorithm are trust fund kids - How cultural capital has merged with financial capital - Why speculation is rational - The belief economy: from making → framing → predicting - What he learned working with Kanye for three months - Finding new subcultures in the dark corners of Telegram - Why he's long humanity despite everything Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:18 - Intro to Trevor 4:12 - Thanks to Notion 5:21 - Start: Creative People Should Be Rich 12:03 - Creative Ignition, Infrastructure, and Why Selling Out is Punk 21:49 - Authenticity, Honesty, Divine Creativity, and Borrowed Nostalgia 30:15 - Low Status Games and High Culture, Cultural & Financial Capital, and Crypto 42:08 - The Belief Economy: From Making to Framing to Predicting 48:45 - Markets, Power, Consensus, and Truth 58:22 - Speculation is Rational 1:06:34 - Developing a Nose for Weird, Being Early and On Time 1:19:06 - Unfettered Cultural Spaces on the Internet 1:26:33 - FWB, Community, and Exclusivity 1:31:02 - LilMiquela, Online Storytelling and Celebrity, Touring as a Performer 1:45:41 - Softt, Music as a Way In, Music as a Business 1:52:45 - Culture & Business 1:54:38 - Kanye 2:06:20 - Optimism, The Next Generation, Parenting, The Stuff that Counts, and Cerulean Available on all platforms now.
Jackson Dahl40,021 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
I talked to Cursor's head of design Ryo Lu about how software is alive, what it means to make things true, why AI is not the end of creativity, but the beginning... and much more! Here are some favorite bits to give you a taste. Full ep on X below and everywhere!
Jackson Dahl33,734 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
Charles Broskoski believes everything should be personal: your work, your tools, your taste, and perhaps most provocatively, the business you build. I talked to Charles Broskoski about knowing yourself, noticing patterns, casual research, and building a personal business in Are.na. Charles is an artist turned software engineer and co-founder/CEO of Arena: a platform for collecting, connecting, and self-directed learning. Arena is coming up on its 15th anniversary, and Charles hopes it can last another 15 and far beyond. I discovered him through his essay and talk, "Here for the Wrong Reasons", and was struck by his philosophy that who we are is made up of the things we pay attention to, and specifically what we see in them. We discuss that and more: - Why creativity is decision-making and problem-solving - Charles's case for "casual" research - Why skateboarding is a model for being a beginner - How information that inflects you becomes part of who you are - Personal versus performative taste (and why it shouldn't be thought of as a competitive skill) - Creating a typeface to replace Arial that looks (almost) exactly like Arial - Why more creative people should start businesses - Drawing inspiration from a 1,300 year old Japanese hot spring hotel - "The reward is the work. That you get to hang out with your friends and make something cool." - Why Arena wants to fade into the background Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:21 - Intro: Charles Broskoski 4:00 - Thanks to Notion 5:26 - Start: Creativity as Self-Knowledge and Problem-Solving 13:37 - Self-directed Learning and Casual Research 21:33 - Skateboarding, Being a Beginner, In Defense of Posers 33:26 - Contextual Patterns and Channels 45:54 - Nodal Points, Your Radar, and Careful Attention 1:04:57 - Subjectivity, Self-Knowledge, and Taste 1:15:09 - Performance: Here for Fame and Not Love 1:22:53 - Aspirational Attention 1:29:02 - Designing Generous Tools 1:42:44 - Space in a Product and Fading into the Background 1:50:01 - Why Creatives Should Be Entrepreneurial & Building an Independent Business Online 1:54:11 - Patience, Durability, and Antifragility 1:59:48 - Personal Businesses 2:10:27 - Grab Bag: Authenticity, Bohm Dialogue, Skateboarding, and Keeping Things Personal 2:28:28 - Thanks Again to Notion Dialectic with Jackson Dahl Ep. 40: Charles Broskoski - Everything is Personal - is out now, below and on all platforms.
Jackson Dahl24,328 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Mario Gabriele is collector and teller of stories, and he argues that they are the foundation of how we understand the world. I talked to Mario Gabriele 🦊 about writing, what motivates the heroes he is most interested in (founders), and how to see the story underneath the story and get closer to what is true. Mario is founder of The Generalist and more recently, partner at Hummingbird Ventures. He is obsessed with founders and what makes them tick, and has evolved his career consistently to get closer to a seat that is suited just for him. We cover: - how stories can point at something truer than facts - why most writing advice is bad - how great ambition is almost always a product of pain - a rant against "how do you do anything is how you do everything" - Hummingbird's obsession with the texture of someone's mind - why the best investors' rationale fits on a napkin, and why "this founder is insanely good" is actually a deep answer - why The Generalist isn't called Mario's Newsletter (or podcast) - why he gave up some independence for Hummingbird Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:13 - Intro to Mario 3:58 - Start: Stories, Truth, Writing, and the Story Beneath the Story 23:39 - Failure, Authenticity, Comparative Advantage, and The Most Annoying Aphorism in the World 35:55 - The Generalist's Style 45:20 - Process, Goals, Vision, Experimentation, and Business Models 57:52 - Investing: Energy, First Checks, Notecard-level Clarity, and Peter Thiel 1:07:46 - Understanding Founders, Motivation, Good and Bad Fuel, and True Ambition 1:17:47 - Hummingbird: Seeing the World as it Actually Is and How Stories Reveal Truth, Linguistics, Observation, Deciding to Join, and Evolution 1:29:32 - Motivation, Raising the Bar, Ongoing Learning and Teachability, Status, Unlearning, Generous Products, and The Reward of Not Knowing Dialectic 43: Mario Gabriele - Reality is Story-Shaped - is available below and on all platforms. Thanks to Notion for presenting Dialectic with Jackson Dahl.
Jackson Dahl16,126 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
I talked to Brie Wolfson about craft as the core of work, how great companies stay underrated, and why marketing is about amplifying what's true. Brie is so humble and so joyful, and yet incredibly effective and wise. I hope that shines through for you as it did for me. Out now!
Jackson Dahl12,649 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten