Divinations

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

Disrupting Disruption Pt. 2 — Ben Thompson

The “divine discontent” critique

Means of Creation #5: Nathan Barry

On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing

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

57 Jun 12, 2020

What good is strategy right now?

A conflict of interest

Kernel Strategies

Six attributes of high-traction startups

The open podcast ecosystem is dying — here’s how to save it.

It’s time to compete. Not complain.

PepsiCo goes DTC

One new strategy. Two new websites.

How Domino’s Stock Returned 4,595%

The original cloud kitchen, ten years before it was cool

How creators can go “on tour” on the internet

Growing an audience ain’t what it used to be

Finding Power

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

“Shop” from Shopify: right problem, wrong solution

Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs

Sonos Radio: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat

What the speaker company’s new music play is really all about