
Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl
Conversational portraits of original people, across technology, media, business, and creativity. By Jackson Dahl. Available on all podcast platforms.
Episodes


Brie Wolfson on Truth in Marketing and Craft in Culture

Cursor's Ryo Lu on Designing Living Tools, the Future of Coding , & Creating Soulful Things with AI
In this episode of Dialectic, Jackson Dahl interviews Ryo Lu, Head of Design at Cursor, about his design philosophy, which centers on the idea that everything is fundamentally connected and built from the same simple parts. They discuss the importance of understanding the underlying structure of things, designing for t...

Inside Tech's Water Cooler: Breaking Down the Magic Behind TBPN with John Coogan & Jordi Hays

Chris Sacca - Drifting Back to Real - Legendary Returns, Risk, Climate, Storytelling, Authenticity

MSCHF's Gabe Whaley on Playing the Crowd & Outlasting the Hype | Dialectic

David Senra - The Clarity of Commitment | Founders Podcast, Focus, Endurance, Fear, Service, Legacy

Billy Oppenheimer - Attuned to Clues: The Work is the Win, Working with Ryan Holiday and Rick Rubin

28: Maxwell Meyer - Starships & Road Trips | Arena Magazine, American Propaganda, & Progress

Mackenzie Burnett - Accounting for the American Dream | Ambrook, Empowering Small Businesses & Farms

Cyan Banister - A Fool’s Dérive: Presence, Originality, Intentional Drift, a Life of Wonder

Reggie James - Our Infinite Mirrors - Live from FWB Fest 2025 | Dialectic Ep. 25

Linus Lee: Engineering for Aliveness - LLMs, Agency, Tools for Thought, Thrive Capital |Dialectic 24

Tamara Winter - Tacit Trust & Caring Curiosity | Stripe Press, Taste, Charisma, Agency |Dialectic 23

Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas that Infect - Antimemetics, Attention, Ideas, and Action | Dialectic 22

Geoffrey Litt - Software You Can Shape - Malleable Software, LLMs and Agency, Editing Your Tools

Yancey Strickler - Constellations of Creativity - Metalabel, Kickstarter, The Creative Century

Henrik Karlsson - Cultivating a Life that Fits | Dialectic Ep. 19

Tom Morgan - Wisdom in the Woo: Why Your Curiosity is Smarter than You | Dialectic
Following one’s energy serves as a primary compass for navigating life’s transitions and identifying personal gifts. Curiosity functions as a force of "centropy," pulling individuals toward greater complexity and integration with the whole. While the left hemisphere excels at logical, narrow-focused analysis, an over-r...

Alex Danco - Innovation Begins with Gifts: How Generosity Solves Coordination Problems - Dialectic
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