A little update to the logo: Feeling lucky to have had such rich conversations with these faces, and hopefully many more to come.

Luka is skinny and ripped now. Anything is possible!!!

The bar can always be higher. 📸

I talked to @_TamaraWinter about tacit knowledge and the illegible social scaffolding that supports so much of society. Tammy is essentially a professional tastemaker: she and the @stripepress team choose which ideas are worthy of Stripe's global audience in the form of a few books a year. She's also a deeply relational and charismatic person who moves through the world with a fundamental interest in other people. Highlights: - the 2 keys to taste: absorption and deployment - charisma, living relationally, and a "seamless web of deserved trust" - why small talk leads to big talk - how small social affordances hold up safe cities - cultural arson: the antisocial dark side of "you can just do things" - the healthy kind of agency: an internal locus of control - three women of history Tammy hopes to rhyme with - why Charlie Munger cared more to talk about standards than compounding - why you should read more biographies Available on all platforms below, and transcript.

Pretty wild teasing by wob about the notion of a Mav Carter / LeBron led NBA competitor league and the possibility of Jokic / other major euro stars joining

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?

I genuinely believe of the best things you can do for people in your life is tell them about ChatGPT o3

If James Dyson has 1 million fans, I am one of them…

Aryan Links Issue No.2

The Mad Scientist of F1: (insanely great clip from the new episode)