Divinations

Facebook’s cloud gaming strategy: smarter than it seems

The return of Three Shorts!

What I got wrong about Quibi

A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup

Why winners sometimes take all, and sometimes don’t

Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”

Intangible Returns

How strict prioritization processes cause malaise, and why you should take gut instinct more seriously in your planning process.

Roam’s road ahead

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

Strategy Smells

Hints that your strategy isn't working

Announcement!

Plus, how to be a person on the Internet, with Visakan Veerasamy

Disrupting Disruption: Helmer’s Razor

Can disruption be simplified?

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.

The inventors of “the passion economy” thesis, live on Zoom

I'm interviewing Li Jin and Adam Davidson on Friday!

Disrupting Disruption: Alex Danco

Two theories; one of them good

Means of Creation #5: Nathan Barry

On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing

Disrupting Disruption Pt. 2 — Ben Thompson

The “divine discontent” critique

Means of Creation #4: Leah Culver & Erik Berlin

The co-founders of Breaker, on podcasting, platforms, and media

Complexity Convection

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

Means of Creation #3: Lenny Rachitsky

On newsletters, platforms, marketplaces, and more

Disrupting Disruption

Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong

Means of Creation #2: Greg Isenberg

On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities

Strategy should be painful

Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat

Announcing: Means of Creation

A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly

Product Case Study: HEY

A radical new take on email

Will HEY Work?

The dust has settled. Now what?

5 interesting strategy decisions from WWDC

Decoding Apple's intentions

Why I wouldn’t invest in consumer health hardware

(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)

healthOS

Apple is building an operating system for health

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