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.
My recent interview with Jesse Beyroutey solidified a hunch that I’ve been nursing for awhile: Incentive alignment is one of the most import
A Book Review of “Mastering the Market Cycle”
Is now a great time to buy? Or a terrible one?
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
A mind-expanding conversation with Kat Tenbarge
A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup
Full transcript of our conversation with Allen
Using the exciting new launch of Ask Jerry as a springboard, Nathan and Dan parse out the importance of radical self-inquiry in business, an
The founder of Universe joins us to discuss how to democratize website creation
Read to the end for publicly listed TikTok Creator Mansion
Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin
What happens when a product company tries to run a platform?
Three Shorts: Facebook Portal — back from the dead!; an advertising arbitrage opportunity; a funny story about the power of incentives
Read to the end for a 9-year-old YouTube star who launched a Roblox world
And the future of worker classification
Two friends start a business together. What could go wrong? Click here to read the transcript for this episode.
Why are they doing it? And will it work?
“Quantify the impact, reduce it as much as possible, and offset the rest” says Joseph Pallant - founder of the Blockchain for Climate Foundation
And understanding how psychology affects consumer behavior
“As a player, you actually earn 2-3x more than an entry-level job” - Gabby Dizon, co-founder of Yield Guild Games
Also: Spotify’s answer to Clubhouse, Cameo’s $1 billion valuation, Substack’s $650 million valuation, and more
Dan and Nathan discuss productivity cycles, the latest version of Sparkle, Dan’s file management system, and how they relate to Nathan’s new
BitClout is a new service that allows anyone to create a publicly-tradable token. Will it work? What effect could it have?
And the product dynamics that drive social platforms
