Nathan Baschez

Oct 15, 2020

Striking Out as an Independent Tech Journalist, with Casey Newton

And the future of social media platforms

Jul 10, 2020

#11 - Two entrepreneurs and a journalist walk into a podcast

Today, Dan and Nathan welcome guest Alex Kantrowitz to Talk Therapy! (This is a special episode that’s twice as long as usual!) Alex left hi

Oct 13, 2020

Passion Economy News #4: Triller Poaching TikTok Stars, David Dobrik Gets Funding for Dispo, Journalistic Entrepreneurialism, and More

Read to the end for an insightful OnlyFans creator AMA

Aug 31, 2021

Understanding The Culture and Commerce Driving NFTs

"I like the idea of culture being more valuable and more people being able to profit from their taste" - Kyle Chayka

May 20, 2020

PepsiCo goes DTC

One new strategy. Two new websites.

Jun 15, 2021

The Creator MBA

Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.

Jun 7, 2021

The Creator Economy Just Went Mainstream. Why?

Journalist Alex Kantrowitz on Big Tech’s shifting attitude towards creators

Sep 2, 2020

How to be a person on the Internet, with Visakan Veerasamy

Or, why friendly ambitious nerds will change the world

Oct 21, 2020

#37 - Better Business Writing

What began as a weekly “Great Writing” meeting is now the newest member of the bundle! Dan and Nathan reflect on how their joint desire to g

Aug 5, 2020

#17 - How should we compensate creators?

Nathan and Dan discuss how a new kind of media business model requires them to rethink how to fairly compensate writers for the bundle. Ho

Dec 16, 2020

Side Hustle or Job Replacement? What Platforms Like Poshmark Are Really Providing

News Roundup #13: lottery meets YouTuber, Reddit’s Dubsmash acquisition, and a database with 20,000+ newsletters

Jul 3, 2020

#9 - Tech vs Media hits a new low

Why is there so much animosity between the tech industry and journalists? Dan and Nathan try to sort through the muck.

Oct 29, 2020

Building The Best Tools for Creators, with Joseph Albanese

For our guest this week on Means of Creation we welcomed Joseph Albanese, co-founder and CEO of Stir!As we’ve discussed on the show before,

Jul 22, 2020

#14 - Focus pocus

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

Jul 15, 2020

#12 - It’s Disruption Week!! (part 1)

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

Jun 11, 2020

#2 - Work/Life Harmony

Dan and Nathan discuss balancing meetings with getting writing done. They also discuss balancing living a happy life with trying to put out

Mar 27, 2020

Understanding the Covid-19 Recession

What happens when an economy holds its breath?

Dec 7, 2021

Should Creators Own Their Means of Creation?

Erik Forman on how to counteract the precarious realities of today’s platform economy

Dec 12, 2019

Competitive Strategy, by Michael Porter

The "Divinations" Summary / Review

May 1, 2020

“Shop” from Shopify: right problem, wrong solution

Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs

Oct 7, 2020

#33 - How to use Spatial Organizing

Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin

Apr 17, 2020

Bundle Magic [audio & spreadsheet]

Happy Friday! Above is a recording of me narrating this week’s essay explaining bundle economics, “Bundle Magic.” I tried something a littl

Jun 23, 2020

5 interesting strategy decisions from WWDC

Decoding Apple's intentions

Oct 20, 2020

Understanding How Internet Culture Works, with Taylor Lorenz

And what it means to be a journalist in 2020