HeyJaredDialectic
Conversational portraits of original people, across technology, media, business, and creativity. By Jackson Dahl.
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56: Miles Grimshaw - Back Down the Mountain (opens the original)
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Miles Grimshaw (X, LinkedIn) is an investor at Thrive Capital. He’s spent most of his career there, there, partnering with founders at the early stages of company building, including Cursor, Turbopuffer, Chai Discovery, Mesh Optical, Revel, XDOF, Socket, Benchling, GitHub, and many more. 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 “adventu
Independent Study: Art is For Seeing Evil by Agnes Callard (Essay) (opens the original)
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“Art is For Seeing Evil” was published by Agnes Callard for The Point Magazine on July 15, 2022. My thanks to Agnes and The Point for permission to share this audio version of her essay on Dialectic’s feed. https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/art-is-for-seeing-evil/ Agnes Callard (UChicago, Substack, X, Wikipedia) is a professor of philosophy at The University of Chicago, focused primarily on ancient philosophy and ethics. She also writes for The Point, The New York Times, and more. I particul
55: Dan Lilienthal & José Chayet - As [untitled] as it Comes (opens the original)
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Dan Lilienthal (X, LinkedIn) and José Chayet (X, LinkedIn) are childhood friends and cofounders of [untitled] (X, Instagram), 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
54: Ian Rogers - Never a Spectator (opens the original)
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Full transcript and all links and references: dialectic.fm/ian-rogers. Ian and I made a playlist with albums/songs mentioned here (Apple, Spotify). Ian Rogers (X, LinkedIn) 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
53: Zhengdong Wang - Feeling the Wave (opens the original)
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Zhengdong Wang (Website, X, LinkedIn) 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 be
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