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 are both writing about Clay Christensen’s iconic theory of disruption, so we decided the second week of July every year is go
Read to the end for how women face unique challenges in the passion economy
Journalist Alex Kantrowitz on Big Tech’s shifting attitude towards creators
Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin
Nathan and Dan talk through the experiments they’ve run with the weekly Sunday digests and what they’re going to try next. Here’s the link t
Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020
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
Nathan interviews Dan about his latest Superorganizers article, “Dopamine Stacking.” Why are we always compelled to try new tools, which of
What the speaker company’s new music play is really all about
A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker
Three Shorts: Facebook Portal — back from the dead!; an advertising arbitrage opportunity; a funny story about the power of incentives
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,
And understanding how psychology affects consumer behavior
How strict prioritization processes cause malaise, and why you should take gut instinct more seriously in your planning process.
Three shorts: the strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible.
Also in Three Shorts: Amazon buying Wondery, and Calm's $2b valuation
Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs
Your questions and critiques, answered!
Sonos filled homes with silky smooth sound, but it’s questionable if their strategic decisions made them anything more than commodity hardware.
Dan and Nathan start out discussing the concept of Talk Therapy: a place to talk about the process of building a media business as it happen
Happy Friday! Above is a recording of me narrating this week’s essay explaining bundle economics, “Bundle Magic.” I tried something a littl
Trying something new - what do you think?
A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly
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