Nathan Baschez is the cofounder and CEO of AI word processor Lex. He cofounded Every, was the first employee at Substack, and co-created Product Hunt.
How to understand the essence of any business
Two things today: First, a bit of follow-up from last episode. We’re alternating weeks where one of us is in “maker mode” and the other is i
Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.
Dan and Nathan commiserate over their writing slump and strategize how to escape it. Meanwhile, Adam’s essay hits the top of Hacker News! T
Read to the end for live streaming insights for music creators
“We want people to live off their art” - Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström
Dan and Nathan are both writing about Clay Christensen’s iconic theory of disruption, so we decided the second week of July every year is go
And what the next phase looks like for Teachable
And understanding how psychology affects consumer behavior
And the future of social media platforms
Dan and Nathan ponder the latest features shipped by Twitter and Instagram, and the reactions to both. At what point do compelling experienc
Full transcript of our conversation with Allen
YouTube revealed $30B in creator payouts and is incentivizing creators to use “Shorts”, an OnlyFans-like platform connecting foodies with chefs, and more
This week on the Divinations podcast, Adam Keesling and I are interviewed by our pal Dan Shipper about our Quibi prediction piece! How to Li
Two friends start a business together. What could go wrong? Click here to read the transcript for this episode.
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On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing
The Divinations Podcast is back! (If you want to add it to your podcast app, press “add to podcast app” by the audio player above!) This wee
Hey! Something special today :) I always wanted to release the raw audio of the interviews I do. But part of the magic of the original inter
After catching up with the latest from Coinbase and its employees, Nathan tells Dan about his week…which honestly sounds more like a country
On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities
Preethi Kasireddy on what Ethereum is and how it works
My chapter-by-chapter summary, with notes and reactions
Dan and Nathan discuss one of many recent takes on Substack, and try to offer a counterpoint to the idea that newsletter writers need to mak
