Jackson Dahl

“The world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings... The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline and effort and being able to truly care about other people.”

“This episode is a solo reading by Jackson Dahl of a 1990 speech by John W. Gardner.”

“A friend, Willem Van Lanker, shared this with me back in 2024, and it was and continues to be quite influential.”

“Kevin talked about and clearly has lived... a life that has great belief and hope in the future.”

“I got to know Henry when I was a venture investor at the crypto firm Paradigm, which shortly after I left, ended up investing in Privy.”

“Participants: Jackson Dahl, Paul Scherer. Podcast: Dialectic. Date: 2026-05-27.”

“"The one person I've noticed who doesn't talk about it like that is Kevin Kelly... Kevin talks about AIs, which is a subtle but important difference."”

“"Notion also made a bunch of new announcements on its developer platform recently... the way that they're pushing what you can do with agents is really remarkable." - Jackson Dahl”

“Notion co-founder Akshay Kothari introduced Paul Scherer to podcast host Jackson Dahl; also referenced as a sounding board for Paul's ideas about purpose and restlessness.”

“Participants: Jackson Dahl, Nicholas Thompson”

“Jackson Dahl and Nicholas Thompson are participants in the Dialectic podcast, episode 45.”