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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.
Dan and Nathan talk about helping Chris Bosh launch a newsletter: The Last Chip.
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
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 discuss productivity cycles, the latest version of Sparkle, Dan’s file management system, and how they relate to Nathan’s new
Ian Borthwick’s secrets of influencer marketing
We made a bundle, and you're grandfathered in!
Two theories; one of them good
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
Read to the end for why Warner Music Group paid $85m for a meme-making company
A new conduit for knowledge of business strategy
How to understand the essence of any business
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Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.
(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)
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
A conflict of interest
Nathan and Dan discuss how they test for what kind of content resonates. P.S. — Here’s the essay on Oatly’s marketing by Nat Eliason just p
As the Everything bundle grows, Nathan’s focus seems to have disappeared. Dan helps him troubleshoot, and by the end of the episode, we deci
Also: Patreon’s push towards creator equity, SMS platforms for creators, podcast advertising consolidation, and more
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Nathan Baschez
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