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Often: conversations with creative people who inspire me on my podcast, Dialectic. Sometimes: essays, recommendations, and my taste in words.
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Mercury CEO Immad Akhund is fighting decay with every product decision (opens the original)
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Mercury is a banking platform people actually like. It’s also Immad Akhund’s fourth company. I spoke to him about deciding that banking didn’t need to suck, especially given how central it is to every entrepreneur’s journey.Nearly a decade in, he hopes to fight decay and build a company that gets better over time, not worse. 1-in-3 startups use Mercury, and he's betting that the next 10 years of entrepreneurship will be greater than the last."I think just being annoyed about the world is quite a
Independent Study: “Personal Renewal” by John W. Gardner (opens the original)
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I haven’t shared them on the newsletter, but I’ve now recorded a few bonus episodes of what I call Independent Study: bits of writing—often essays—that have inspired me and feel complimentary to the project I’m pursuing with Dialectic conversations. The first was an new essay from early guest (ep. 7: The Shapes of Culture): Body Futurism (reading, original</
Thrive’s Miles Grimshaw on Software’s Future, Impatient Patience, and New Adventures (opens the original)
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Miles Grimshaw has spent his life hunting change: from “adventure racing” to finding and working with the world’s most ambitious software companies.His favorite part: getting to go back down the mountain and begin again.Now, he faces an existential question: AI is making software creation nearly instant and free. All of the underlying assumptions for venture-backed software startups are in question. What moats will persist? Is software over?I talked to him about playing infinite games, seeing gr
[untitled]’s Founders on Building a Sacred Place for Music | Dan Lilienthal & José Chayet (opens the original)
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Dan Lilienthal and José Chayet run [untitled], a sacred place for work-in-progress music.They aren’t trained engineers, designers, or musicians, and yet have built a platform that hundreds of thousands of artists—from 16-year-olds on their first record deal to Lorde—use to store, listen to, and work with their music.Lorde also recently released XRAYS on [untitled]: 49 demos, the sonic museum behind her album Virgin.Dan & José are also childhood best friends. I talked to them
The Punk Rock Executive: Ian Rogers on a Life of Combining Tech and Cool | Dialectic (opens the original)
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I met in 2020 while building 100 Thieves, and he told us: never forget, you’re selling culture before you’re selling product. It was a joy to spend a day with him in Paris this summer. He is incredibly cool and remarkably wise.Ian has spent his career chasing the technology people are going to hate next: file sharing, streaming, crypto, and AI. But he also knows how to build brands and sell culture, from the Beastie Boys to Beats/Apple Music to LVMH.Ian’s resume is too long to list, but a taste:
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