Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Ep. 22: Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas that Infect Nadia Asparouhova (@nayafia) is a writer and researcher who has spent much of her career in service of the question: 'what's happening here?' across various parts of the internet. Nadia recently published her newest book,…

Fun fact: you can buy Dialectic's coin and apparently make money? But also you can listen to the hand-crafted episodes where I pour my heart and soul into trying to create an audio portrait of people who inspire me. You can decide which is more worthwhile. Por que no los dos?

New ranking for @DialecticPod in the Zora Top 100 lfg

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this part of my @dialecticpod conversation with @nayafia about attention. Our attention shapes everything around us, and we can strengthen it or let it fatigue:

I'm looking for some inspiration: what podcasts or talk shows have your favorite cinematic brands? Specifically examples that have distinct visual worlds, or at least aesthetics. Examples: - @tbpn - @RickRubin's @tetranow - @JoshuaCitarella's Doomscroll - @AdamFriedland

things i've enjoyed recently: - the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences - the maniac - @DialecticPod with @nayafia - the new yorker on kurt gödel

I can’t believe I just discovered @DialecticPod. I’ve spent 4-5 hours biking and binge listening to it this weekend.

Oh, this is super cool! & seeing this made me instantly remember @geoffreylitt 's episode on @DialecticPod. Quick 🧵

I recently discovered @jacksondahl's podcast and I'm so happy to hear these thoughtful conversations...a new fave

Much has been said about Robert Moses' multi-decade reign in NYC. Typically this includes his nuanced understanding of power or critiquing top-down urban design. But there's a subtler thread that ran through his life. A superpower we all have access to: radical attention. While…

Binged through @DialecticPod on drives and hikes the past few days. Best new podcast I've discovered in a long time. Very evident that a lot of care goes into guest selection and interview prep. Favorite episodes: Geoffrey Litt, Yancey Strickler, Josh Wolfe, Steph Ongo, Eugene…

In a letter to a friend in 1899, Wilbur Wright wrote: “I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life.” In our recent @dialecticpod…

14 highlights on creativity, commerce, and self from my conversation with @ystrickler on @DialecticPod:

Great line from @geoffreylitt on @DialecticPod w/ @jacksondahl "Software ought to be the ultimate medium for free expression. We are not bound by the laws of physics." - Geoffrey Litt, on the unrealized potential of digital tools Litt highlights the paradox that while software…

Great tools can be shaped by their user, creating a flywheel of agency and creativity. @geoffreylitt on @DialecticPod: "The fact that until now you've needed to learn to program to shape your digital environment is one of the biggest problems in our software world."

"attention is upstream of all of our ideas and action" - @nayafia/@jacksondahl/@DialecticPod