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.
Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020
Read to the end for live streaming insights for music creators
Hello! Welcome to Three Shorts, a recurring series where I unpack the strategy behind the news in as few bullet points as possible.Enjoy!Fas
Your questions and critiques, answered!
Decoding Apple's intentions
Read to the end for how women face unique challenges in the passion economy
Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin
Dan and Nathan process Coinbase’s decision to disengage from any political issues outside their core focus. What were they trying to do? Wha
Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs
This is the audio edition of Inside the Clubhouse, narrated by me!
Plus, how to be a person on the Internet, with Visakan Veerasamy
Good afternoon! Here’s the audio version of the Quibi essay that Adam Keesling and I published today. It’s narrated by me, and the first few
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.
Growing an audience ain’t what it used to be
Hints that your strategy isn't working
Three Shorts: Facebook Portal — back from the dead!; an advertising arbitrage opportunity; a funny story about the power of incentives
The "Divinations" Summary / Review
Three shorts: the strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible.
And what it means to be a journalist in 2020
Erik Forman on how to counteract the precarious realities of today’s platform economy
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
A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker
Taking a hard look at Substack’s top ten after yet another chaotic week for media (and for everything else), Dan and Nathan dig into the Pub
