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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.
How to understand the essence of any business
Dan and Nathan discuss an existential question for any creative and ambitious person: How do you choose to work with someone or on something
Dan and Nathan talk about helping Chris Bosh launch a newsletter: The Last Chip.
Dan and Nathan discuss productivity cycles, the latest version of Sparkle, Dan’s file management system, and how they relate to Nathan’s new
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
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
Read to the end for why Warner Music Group paid $85m for a meme-making company
Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”
Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
Li Jin, who co-hosts Means of Creation with Nathan, comes on the show to discuss the economics of her partnership with Every. How did you
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And the future of worker classification
A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
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
Two new things this week for subscribers! I narrated an audio version of this article just for paying subscribers like you. I’m going to do
All reviews of books, podcasts, articles, etc
After reading Dan’s Superorganizers profile on people person Peter Boyce, Nathan wonders why his hands-on approach to social and business ca
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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
Dan and Nathan address the news that’s been dominating the Everything Slack all day: Substack’s long-awaited reader, which collects your new
Nathan Baschez
Dan Shipper
Li Jin