Steph Ango aka Kepano: CEO of Obsidian on Toolmaking, Design, Writing, Constraints, File over app Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl 2026-09-22 | Steph Ango aka Kepano: CEO of Obsidian on Toolmaking, Design, Writing, Constraints, File over app
Great Investors Are Impatiently Patient: Thrive Capital’s Miles Grimshaw Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl 2026-09-01 | Full transcript and all links: https://dialectic.fm/miles-grimshawMiles Grimshaw (https://x.com/milesgrimshaw) is a partner at Thrive Capital (https://thrivecap.com). He started his career there, partnering with founders at the early stages of company building, including Cursor, Turbopuffer, Chai Discovery, Mesh Optical, Revel, XDOF, Socket, Benchling, and GitHub. Miles was also briefly an investor at Benchmark before returning to Thrive in 2024.The conversation focuses on Miles' appetite for change and continuing to begin anew, again and again. That starts with "adventure racing" as a teenager, and continues through his career as an investor in search of world-changing companies.We talk about how Miles proactively puts himself in position to work with great companies in a style that resembles courtship, his disposition of impatient patience, and why he loves change. The latter includes the dramatic shift in his primary domain: software. As the underlying assumptions for software businesses change due to AI, what traits will great companies have? And what moats if any will persist? Is software investing over?Miles also talks through how great companies and founders go where they are looking, prioritizing customers that help you live in the future, the learned intuition of greatness, and joining the expedition squad alongside the founders Thrive partners with. Finally, we talk a bit about Thrive, his departure to and return from Benchmark, and endurance.I hope you are inspired to find an infinite game where you are excited to see the stone back down the hill and begin to push again.-Dialectic is presented by Notion. Notion is an AI-powered connected workspace where teams think together and create their best work. Learn more: notion.com/dialectic-Timestamps:- (0:00) - Opening Highlights- (1:37) - Intro: Miles Grimshaw- (4:30) - Infinite Games, Adventure Racing, and Starting Anew, Over and Over- (11:01) - Staying Hungry: Proactive Hunting and the Turbopuffer Story- (17:35) - Impatiently Patient: Courtship, Cursor, Recruiting, and Joining the Team- (25:33) - Loving Change: London to America, the Himalayas, and Learning New Sports- (31:36) - The Genetics of Companies: "What Is It?" and "Who Cares?"- (38:08) - House Cats & Tigers: Where Is the Founder Looking?- (47:00) - Confidence in Uncertainty and Customers That Pull You Into the Future- (54:25) - What Remains for Software: Moats, Cities, Wall-Clock Time, and the Barbell of Scale & Luxury- (1:04:54) - Craft, Trust, and Why Software Isn't Over- (1:11:13) - Intuition: Gradient Descent and Seeing Greatness Up Close- (1:18:07) - "I Don't Know" and "I'll Figure It Out"- (1:22:12) - Commitments, Not Bets: Closing People and Board Work- (1:29:06) - Joining Thrive, Being a Punk, and Music Studios over Jury Trials- (1:36:18) - Leaving for Benchmark and Returning to Thrive- (1:43:18) - Dream Bigger: Lessons from Josh, Teaching Agency to Kids, and Going the Distance- (1:51:36) - OutroDisclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only. The views expressed are the speaker's own as of the recording date and are subject to change. Thrive funds and their affiliates have investments in certain companies discussed in this episode. References to those companies are illustrative, do not represent all investments made by Thrive, and should not be viewed as recommendations or indications of future investment performance. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Childhood Friends Built the App Artists Trust With Unfinished Music | [untitled] Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl 2026-08-18 | Full transcript and all links: https://dialectic.fm/untitledDan Lilienthal and José Chayet are childhood friends and cofounders of [untitled], a platform for musicians that they describe as a sacred place for work-in-progress music. It is where a song lives between recording and streaming. [untitled] is closer to the Photos app than to a social network: a private place to store, listen to, and slowly share demos, with no feed.Dan and José are not trained musicians, engineers, or designers, but they have built a product artists love by "method acting" their way into deep empathy. The platform has grown to 50K paying users and now allows artists to share unreleased music directly with fans. Lorde recently released XRAYS on [untitled]: 49 demos and works in progress from her album Virgin, creating a kind of museum behind the record.We discuss music as a form of communication and a connection to the divine; why they have resisted adding a feed; product inspirations like the iPod and Snapchat; how empathy and QA underpin their product philosophy; designing for 16-year-olds and superstars; AI as an instrument; which parts of the creative process are worth sharing; what it means for software to be sacred; and building a company with your best friend.I hope you're inspired to consider what is sacred, share and live with the things you make, seek out music that inspires you, and stay untitled a little longer than is comfortable.-Dialectic is presented by Notion. Notion is an AI-powered connected workspace where teams think together and create their best work. You can learn more at notion.com/dialectic.-Timestamps:(0:00) Opening Highlights(1:24) Intro to Dan & José & Thanks to Notion(4:42) Start: Brackets, How Creativity Makes the World Bigger, and Music's Connection to the Divine(20:40) Duchamp, Music as a Set of Choices, and The Museum Behind the Work(27:52) [untitled]: A Medium for Music In-Progress(45:03) From a Better Dropbox to a Creativity Company(52:13) Empathy as a Product Philosophy and The Collaboration's Origins(1:01:04) Scaling the Sacred Place and Product Intuition(1:10:33) Lorde's XRAYS Drop and Designing for a Wide Range of Artists(1:17:26) 10K Unheard Songs and Whether Process Should be Seen(1:24:10) Brand, Trust, Alignment with Artists and the [studio](1:30:54) The Word "Sacred" and Resisting the Feed(1:40:52) AI as an Instrument: Building Tools Artists Actually Want(1:49:27) Building a Company with Your Best Friend(1:56:31) Closing Questions: Dream Users, Rapid Fire Brackets, and Titles(2:08:52) Thanks Again to NotionLinks:- This episode on [untitled]: https://untitled.stream/library/project/cwjiMabvKJ01gzOplfU3W- [untitled]: https://untitled.stream/- [untitled] on X: https://x.com/uuuntitleddd- [untitled] on Instagram: instagram.com/untitledinbrackets- Dan Lilienthal on X: https://x.com/danchotweets- José Chayet on X: https://x.com/josechayet- [studio]: studioinbrackets.comKey links from the episode:- Lorde's XRAYS on [untitled]: https://untitled.stream/library/project/s9vE9MvCjdHzXc1QKkxEw- The Beatles: Get Back: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles:_Get_Back- Porches on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2JzhQYGos3RqV7MT5fWeek- Rian Brazil on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1O4STden5bjJI5SLsY8GGH- Zayok on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6QD9LkrzQQTXYS2TwQaVKl- Inside Pollen (Billboard): billboard.com/pro/inside-pollen-mysterious-spotify-playlist-no-rules-apply- Big Ass Kids interview with Dan & José: bigasskids.com/ralphs/interviews/untitled-co-founders-dan-lilienthal-jos-chayet-on-the-rise-of-the-diy-artist-and-how-their-platform-will-kickstart-a-music-renaissanceDialectic with Jackson Dahl is available on all podcast platforms.Website: https://dialectic.fmTwitter / X: https://x.com/dialecticpodInstagram: instagram.com/dialecticpodSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/2IEN4eE9HvNKJHnLv5EMG9?si=83cbf79037954926Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4hpS4U7Substack (subscribe for all episodes): jdahl.substack.com/s/dialecticJoin the Telegram channel for Dialectic: https://t.me/dialecticpod
The Punk Rock Executive: From Apple Music to LVMH to AI | Ian Rogers Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl 2026-08-10 | Full transcript and all links: https://dialectic.fm/ian-rogersIan Rogers is Chief Human Agency Officer of Ledger, the Paris-based security company whose hardware wallets secure much of the world's crypto. He now focuses on how Ledger can enable us to work with AI agents while maintaining our secrets and value.His career has spanned music, culture, brand, and "the technolog(ies) people are going to hate next." He built and ran the Beastie Boys web presence in the 90s before working on music on the internet for over a decade: file sharing at Nullsoft (Winamp and Gnutella), early streaming at Yahoo!, direct-to-fan commerce at Topspin, Beats Music, and finally Apple, as an abbreviated list. He then joined LVMH as its first Chief Digital Officer, working with Bernard Arnault and its many Maisons to bring them into the internet era. More recently, he joined Ledger to improve its product experience, including collaborating with Tony Fadell to create Ledger's most premier form factor, Ledger Stax.Ian's roots are skateboarding and music, which formed alongside a punk rock ideology while growing up in Indiana in the 1980s. I am glad to have captured a long conversation that covers the many flavors of Ian, and the threads that have persisted through his many lives. That includes: individuality, being a participant rather than a spectator, what makes a scene, building brands, trying to help Kanye, and why new culture is always being made—it's just that you have to find the 1% that's awesome. Also: ushering forward and translating frontier technologies, being pushed by Jimmy Iovine, why security matters in the AI era, why AIs aren't people, what he wants to automate, learning to fail, advice on relationships across work, parenting, and love, and a whole lot of love for music—from his 2026 pick Twisted Teens to his desert island albums to tea with Paul McCartney.I hope you're inspired to participate in the world and make great things. Thanks to our friends at Ledger for hosting me.--Dialectic is presented by Notion. Notion is an AI-powered connected workspace where teams think together and create their best work. You can learn more at notion.com/dialectic.--Timestamps:(0:00) Opening Highlights(1:37) Intro to Ian & Thanks to Notion(5:22) Start: Tattoos, Individuality, and Punk Rock: Spectator vs Participant(16:44) What Makes a Scene?(25:24) New Culture, 99% of Everything is Garbage, Finding the 1%(40:09) Niche, Quality, and The Blockbuster vs. The Snowball(53:35) Brand, Selling Culture Before Product, and The Age of the Individual(1:08:12) Aggression, Patience, and Being Pushed(1:16:52) Translating New Technologies, Empowerment, and Agency(1:25:19) Interfaces, Ledger, Security, and Ideology(1:39:56) Ian's New Role: Chief Human Agency Officer(2:06:03) Seeing What is Real, Comfort Being Wrong, Chasing What's Fun and Cool(2:13:45) Lessons from Skateboarding and Favorite Albums(2:22:56) Working with Your Friends, Parenting, Love, and Remembering to Stay a Participant(2:35:47) Thanks Again to NotionLinks:- Ian Rogers on X: https://x.com/iancr- Ian Rogers on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iancrogers- Ledger: ledger.comPlaylist with albums/songs mentioned here:Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5lwlT3x8bcFJVTNARBAjW2?si=e489bc8b71074197Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/dialectic/pl.u-vxy6j1xIzBevWp7Dialectic with Jackson Dahl is available on all podcast platforms.Website: https://dialectic.fmTwitter / X: https://x.com/dialecticpodInstagram: instagram.com/dialecticpodSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/2IEN4eE9HvNKJHnLv5EMG9?si=83cbf79037954926Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4hpS4U7Substack (subscribe for all episodes): jdahl.substack.com/s/dialecticJoin the Telegram channel for Dialectic: https://t.me/dialecticpod
AIs Reluctant Believer: Preparing for AGI and Finding Meaning on the Other Side | Zhengdong Wang Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl 2026-07-29 | Full transcript and all links: https://dialectic.fm/zhengdongZhengdong Wang is an AI researcher based in London.He writes annual letters (inspired by Dan Wang), mainly about AI progress, and his 2025 letter blew me away and inspired me to meet him. In it, he describes his 'compute theory of everything,' and makes the case that it would be stranger if AI progress slowed down than if it continued. Put a different way, reading his letter helped me get closer to truly feeling the wave of AI progress.It took Zhengdong a long time to become "AGI-pilled," despite years of feeling like he was late to AI and working as a research engineer for the last five. I talked to him about what it will take for the rest of us to see what he sees, and feel what he feels. We also discuss why AGI may be a hazier target than simply seeing AI progress as "the model does the eval," and why recursive self-improvement may be both happening and less fantastical than it may seem. ZD makes the case that based on the rate of progress and scaling, skeptics will simply be proven right or wrong soon. We talk a bit through what narrative and political challenges the AI industry faces ahead of this transition.Then there are the implications of all of this—namely how AI progress accelerates the question of what we each value, how we will spend our time, and where we will find or create meaning. ZD takes a stab at some of those impossible questions and shares some other favorite miscellanea that is reflective of the range of his letters.I hope this conversation helps you feel the wave a bit yourself, and that you remember that, regardless of how much change lies ahead, we still get to make our meaning. We get to choose.-Dialectic is presented by Notion. Notion is an AI-powered connected workspace where teams think together and create their best work. You can learn more at notion.com/dialectic.-Timestamps:- (0:00) - Opening Highlights- (1:16) - Intro to Zhengdong & Thanks to Notion- (4:33) - Start: Why Research: "I Just Want to Know"- (12:25) - The Model Does the Eval: AGI as a Moving Target, RSI, and Laser Beams- (33:17) - The Compute Theory of Everything and Feeling the Wave- (53:17) - The Myths AI Needs, Competition vs. Power Concentration, and Whether Progress Is Inevitable- (1:13:42) - "Who Could Possibly Compete?": Post-AGI Meaning, Work, and Questing- (1:29:28) - Are You Having Fun? Vacations, Mattering, and How to Live- (1:47:13) - Annual Letters, Economist Obituaries, London, and Burke- (2:06:33) - Closing & Thanks to NotionLinks:- Zhengdong's website & annual letters: zhengdongwang.com- Zhengdong's 2025 letter: zhengdongwang.com/2025/12/30/2025-letter.html- Zhengdong on X: https://x.com/zhengdongwang- Zhengdong on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zhengdongwangKey links from the episode:- Dan Wang's annual letters: danwang.co- Laura Deming, "The Rage of Research": ldeming.posthaven.com/the-rage-of-research- Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness: situational-awareness.ai- Demis Hassabis's Nobel Lecture: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/hassabis/lecture- Scott Alexander, "In the Future, Everyone Will Be Famous to Fifteen People": slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/20/in-the-future-everyone-will-be-famous-to-fifteen-people- Benjamin Labatut and Demis Hassabis in conversation: youtu.be/C8rLRIhDS-Y- AlphaGo - The Movie: youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y- "Everything's a Scam" (Akira the Don ft. Riva Tez): open.spotify.com/track/1ftkgEmTFiSdyRicoljeuBDialectic with Jackson Dahl is available on all podcast platforms.Website: https://dialectic.fmTwitter / X: https://x.com/dialecticpodInstagram: instagram.com/dialecticpodSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/2IEN4eE9HvNKJHnLv5EMG9?si=83cbf79037954926Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4hpS4U7Substack (subscribe for all episodes): jdahl.substack.com/s/dialecticJoin the Telegram channel for Dialectic: https://t.me/dialecticpod
The Artist-Founder: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Creativity | Patreons Jack Conte Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl 2026-07-21 | Full transcript and all links: https://dialectic.fm/jack-conteJack Conte is the co-founder and CEO of Patreon. He is also a lifelong artist and musician, who at his peak released 100 music videos per year between his bands Pomplamoose (a duo with wife Nataly Dawn) and Scary Pockets (a funk collective), and was a longtime YouTuber.Jack is not a tech CEO who happens to like music. He is an obsessive, prolific artist whose first conventional job is running Patreon. This has shaped him as a founder and executive, and his mission at Patreon is to build an enduring and truly creator-first company that empowers creators to earn a living from their work.We began with how he manages to do it all, where his energy comes from, and what it's like to be "post-chaos." Then, we talked about art, content, and commerce, Patreon's model (that isn't actually pure patronage), and why Silicon Valley undervalues art, brand, and narrative — and Patreon. Jack shared the benefits of a business model that is fully aligned with creators, why he hates the word influencer, and why he's still the right man for the job after 13 years of leading Patreon. We also covered what great leadership looks like, building fans and community, filmmaking, authenticity (from Charlie Kaufman to Prince), and remembering to take risks until the very end.I hope you're inspired to make things you are proud of and to draw the next page even when you have no business doing so.While I have you: I'd strongly recommend Jack's recent SXSW talk on AI, creativity, and change: youtube.com/live/Ue9-zkAz59ALinks:- Jack on Patreon: patreon.com/cw/jackconte- Jack on YouTube: youtube.com/@Jackconte- Jack Conte Extras: youtube.com/@JackConteExtras- Pomplamoose: youtube.com/@Pomplamoose- Scary Pockets: youtube.com/@ScaryPockets- Jack on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jack-conte-a15a3686- Jack on X: https://x.com/jackconte-Dialectic is presented by Notion. Notion is an AI-powered connected workspace where teams think together and create their best work. Learn more about Notion's new developer platform and workers: notion.com/product/devYou can learn more at notion.com/dialectic-Timestamps:(0:00) - Opening Highlights(1:38) - Intro to Jack & Thanks to Notion(3:44) - Start: Prolific Output, Energy, Juggling, Endurance, and Becoming Post-Chaos(22:04) - Combining Creativity and Business and Art vs. Content(33:21) - Advertising vs. Membership & Patronage vs. Patreon(44:06) - Jack's First and Only Job, and Silicon Valley's Undervaluing of Creativity, Brand, and Storytelling (and Patreon)(55:17) - Building for Creators First, Incentive Alignment, Trust, 100 Years of Patreon, and Why Jack is the Right CEO for Now(1:04:49) - Leadership: Types of Ambition, Obsession, Self Reflection, Bias to Action, Learning from Others(1:12:59) - Talent vs. Enthusiasm, Being Proud of What You Make, Making Fans and Being True, Managing Parasociality, and Community(1:28:30) - Filmmaking, Labels and Collectives vs Individuals, Breaking Patterns, Creative Intimacy, Music, Patreon's Origin, Persistence, Lucid Dreaming, and Taking Risks(1:49:26) - Thanks Again to NotionDialectic with Jackson Dahl is available on all podcast platforms.Website: https://dialectic.fmSubstack (subscribe for all episodes): jdahl.substack.com/s/dialecticTwitter / X: https://x.com/dialecticpodInstagram: instagram.com/dialecticpodSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/2IEN4eE9HvNKJHnLv5EMG9?si=83cbf79037954926Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4hpS4U7Join the Telegram channel for Dialectic: https://t.me/dialecticpod
Stripe’s Head of Public Goods on Building What Markets Won’t | Nan Ransohoff Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl 2026-07-14 | Full transcript and all links: https://dialectic.fm/nanNan Ransohoff (https://x.com/nanransohoff) is Head of Public Goods and former Head of Climate at Stripe. This includes Frontier (frontierclimate.com), which she founded: an advance market commitment that accelerates carbon removal by guaranteeing demand for it before it exists. They also recently launched Intercept Fund (interceptfund.com), a new effort to end respiratory infections, led by Nan and Charlie Petty.Nan has written extensively about Stripe's efforts and philanthropy broadly, including her call for general managers for the world's pressing problems (nanransohoff.substack.com/p/there-should-be-general-managers), and on what she calls the third wave of American philanthropy (nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy).We talk about what a "Nan" is and why we need GM's: ambitious founder-like people who obsess over an outcome and work backwards from it, wearing whatever hat the problem requires. We discuss taste in big problems, slicing them up and making them tractable, and why vision is in short supply. We also discuss the coming wave of new philanthropic dollars (est. ~$40B/year), primarily driven by The OpenAI Foundation, Anthropic Founders, and Anthropic employee matching, and how the ecosystem will need to mature to effectively deploy this much capital. Nan also reflects on her unlikely turn toward philanthropy and what it felt like to get off the ladder of a specific kind of ambition. We wrap up with a range of miscellanea and some fun debates. I hope you are inspired to notice problems you can't ignore, be optimistic and specific about the world you hope for, and choose an (unlikely) path that you are proud of.Links:- Nan on X: https://x.com/nanransohoff- Nan's Substack: nanransohoff.substack.com- Nan's website: nanransohoff.com- Frontier: frontierclimate.com- Intercept Fund: interceptfund.com- Stripe Climate: stripe.com/climate--Dialectic is presented by Notion. Notion is an AI-powered connected workspace where teams think together and create their best work. Watch here for more on Notion's new developer platform and workers: youtube.com/watch?v=rpE2rzKO6L0You can learn more at notion.com/dialectic--Timestamps:(0:00) - Opening Highlights(1:15) - Intro to Nan(3:18) - Thanks to Notion(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(2:09:58) - Thanks Again to Notion
Tyler Cowen on Never Crying at Art, Why Rap is Dead, and Quitting Writing Books (w/ Nabeel Qureshi) Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl 2026-06-29 | Tyler Cowen is an economist at George Mason University, leads the Mercatus Center, and is the author of many books including The Great Stagnation and Average Is Over. He has blogged nearly daily at Marginal Revolution for over 20 years, has interviewed hundreds of world-experts on Conversations with Tyler, and runs Emergent Ventures, a prolific grants program that has funded multiple Dialectic guests.Nabeel Qureshi (X, Substack) is an entrepreneur, writer, and researcher. He runs a stealth startup. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at Mercatus and spent nearly eight years at Palantir. He writes some of my favorite essays, including "What Makes Art Great" and "Rented Virtue," and was previously a guest on Dialectic for episode 13: "The Will to Care."Tyler and Nabeel are good friends, and given how prolific Tyler is, I decided to use Nabeel as an entry point and interview them together. We discuss sacred commitments, AI acceleration, mentorship, friendship, and more, but I focused the majority of the conversation on art and aesthetics. Tyler and Nabeel are unlikely aesthetes given their day jobs, but in fact take art deeply seriously. They have a shared love for and similar tastes in art, music, and film, in particular. We discuss strange and beautiful art, aesthetic stagnation, and a wide range of favorites: The Beatles, Mozart, Mondrian, Springsteen, Lana Del Rey, Kanye West, Cassavetes, The Sopranos, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and more.All links and transcript: https://dialectic.fm/tyler-nabeelPlease enjoy, and thank you for supporting, listening, and watching through fifty episodes of Dialectic. I can't wait for the next fifty!—Dialectic is presented by Notion, an AI-powered connected workspace where teams think together and create their best work. Learn more at notion.com/dialectic—Timestamps:0:00 Opening Highlights1:18 Intro to Tyler & Nabeel3:02 Thanks to Notion4:38 Start: Sacred Commitments, AI, Markets, and Acceleration20:23 How Art Moves Us27:08 "Beauty," Strangeness, Great Art, Music, and The Beatles44:09 Film, Critics, Learning to Appreciate Depth, More Music, "Lowbrow" Art1:02:25 New Aesthetics, Sources of Inspiration, Optimism & Pessimism1:11:22 The Internet & Twitter's Virtue, Group Chats, and Cities1:21:35 Mentors, (Possibly Quitting) Writing Books, Friendship1:34:54 Interviewing, Identifying Talent, and Agency1:47:21 Closing Questions1:53:38 Thanks Again to Notion—Key LinksTyler Cowen: tylercowen.comMarginal Revolution: marginalrevolution.comConversations with Tyler: conversationswithtyler.comEmergent Ventures: mercatus.org/emergent-venturesNabeel Qureshi: https://x.com/nabeelquNabeel's Substack: nabeelqu.substack.com"What Makes Art Great": nabeelqu.substack.com/p/what-makes-art-great"Rented Virtue": minutes.substack.com/p/rented-virtue"The Will to Care": (Nabeel for Dialectic, ep. 13) — https://www.dialectic.fm/nabeel-qureshi—DIALECTICSubscribe — youtube.com/@DialecticSpotify — open.spotify.com/show/2IEN4eE9HvNKJHnLv5EMG9Apple Podcasts — podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dialectic/id1780282402Website — https://www.dialectic.fm/
