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.
The dust has settled. Now what?
Nathan and Dan discuss his latest Superorganizers essay on the framework he developed to help him follow his heart — and filter for the best
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It’s not like war, but it’s not like art class, either.
Dan and Nathan commiserate over their writing slump and strategize how to escape it. Meanwhile, Adam’s essay hits the top of Hacker News! T
We’re launching a new series to bring you along the journey of figuring out Every’s visual identity! The first episode (which is longer tha
Reacting to the news of Slack’s purchase by Salesforce, Nathan gets into the different opportunities in hardware vs. software and Dan goes d
Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.
Nathan loops Dan in on something he thought was a problem: falling in and out of love with different software too quickly. Turns out, it’s m
You probably can't have your cake and eat it too. But that's just fine.
A mind-expanding conversation with Kat Tenbarge
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Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
Read to the end for publicly listed TikTok Creator Mansion
The founder of Universe joins us to discuss how to democratize website creation
YouTube revealed $30B in creator payouts and is incentivizing creators to use “Shorts”, an OnlyFans-like platform connecting foodies with chefs, and more
Nathan interviews Dan about the latest Bundle Digest experiment and the overall strategy to make it into its own newsletter. How did you fe
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Two things today: First, a bit of follow-up from last episode. We’re alternating weeks where one of us is in “maker mode” and the other is i
Dan and Nathan welcome Andre Plaut, creator of The Prediction Game—a competition to predict the events of the coming year for a tantalizing
Also: OnlyFans is launching a creative fund for musicians, #BookTok is leading to a resurgence in book sales, and more
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
In a follow-up to their conversation with executive coach Brian Wang last episode, Dan and Nathan discuss addressing small pain points — bot
