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Why Content is King

How media creates power

4 Dec 18, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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How to Write Essays That Spread

Everything I’ve learned about writing on the internet

7 Feb 15, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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A New Kind of Startup is Coming

Smaller, faster, cheaper, weirder

1 Apr 19, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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Inside the Clubhouse

The surprisingly compelling audio app that has consumed my life

Apr 24, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Roam’s road ahead

How the tool for networked thought can grow into its $200m valuation

Sep 18, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Complexity Convection

The lifecycle of a business is to be born simple, grow complex, and then die.

Jul 24, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts

By Means of Natural Selection

1 Apr 22, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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Did Medium Succeed?

The past, present, and future of writing on the internet

Jul 13, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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Instagram can’t recreate TikTok’s Magic

The content format is a red herring. What really matters is the structure and purpose of TikTok’s network, which is antithetical to Instagram.

Aug 24, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Supercharging My Focus (with Help from AI)

GPT-powered journaling is changing my life

Mar 22, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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Substack’s Ideology

The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.

2 Mar 16, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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Robo-Coaches Are Here

How I learned to stop worrying and love the robots that tell me what to do

2 May 3, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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Writing as Strategy

Five lesser-known benefits of thinking out loud

Jan 11, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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Beware Flavored Software

If you’re building the tech equivalent of balsamic strawberry ice cream, don’t expect vanilla scale

1 Jan 4, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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Bundle Magic

How to make 1 + 1 = 3

1 Apr 16, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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OpenAI: the Next Tech Giant?

Reading the tea leaves and reacting to the hype

1 Mar 29, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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Execution is Exponential

The math that quantifies how much execution matters

1 Aug 10, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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Instagram’s Existential Bet

They’re betting the farm on Reels. Will it blow up in their face?

1 Jul 27, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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LLMs are the new CPUs

…but is OpenAI the new Intel?

2 Mar 15, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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Will HEY Work?

The dust has settled. Now what?

Jun 26, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Finding Power

An introduction to Clay Christensen’s most underrated idea: “The Conservation of Modularity”

6 May 4, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Twitter is Fragmenting

People want to be fragmented now

8 Apr 12, 2023 by Nathan Baschez

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Intelligent Tools

A third revolution in software is happening, and we’re just beginning to understand it.

1 Aug 31, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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How Lex Happened

25,000 users in 24 hours

4 Oct 19, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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⚠️ Time to BeWorried ⚠️

Viral photo app BeReal has a unique feature, but not a unique network.

Aug 24, 2022 by Nathan Baschez