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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.
Ian Borthwick’s secrets of influencer marketing
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The return of Three Shorts!
Dan and Nathan discuss an existential question for any creative and ambitious person: How do you choose to work with someone or on something
Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”
It’s weird, but in some ways, side projects require better strategy than regular businesses. They’re so easy to quit. Even if you love it, y
A new conduit for knowledge of business strategy
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
Read to the end for why Warner Music Group paid $85m for a meme-making company
Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
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Two theories; one of them good
YouTube revealed $30B in creator payouts and is incentivizing creators to use “Shorts”, an OnlyFans-like platform connecting foodies with chefs, and more
After reading Dan’s Superorganizers profile on people person Peter Boyce, Nathan wonders why his hands-on approach to social and business ca
News Roundup #14: Twitter acquires Breaker, Clubhouse announces a Creator Pilot Program, Substack’s SEO issues and more
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Nathan walks Dan through the ideas and strategy behind his new Divinations series, Three Shorts. How do you get from the Zone of Ignorance t
Why is there so much animosity between the tech industry and journalists? Dan and Nathan try to sort through the muck.
Nathan Baschez
Dan Shipper
Li Jin
