Divinations

Get smarter about business strategy.

Sep 4, 2020

Strategy Smells

Hints that your strategy isn't working

Sep 3, 2020

Announcement!

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

Sep 1, 2020

Disrupting Disruption: Helmer’s Razor

Can disruption be simplified?

Aug 24, 2020

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 12, 2020

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

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

Aug 9, 2020

Disrupting Disruption: Alex Danco

Two theories; one of them good

Aug 2, 2020

Means of Creation #5: Nathan Barry

On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing

Aug 2, 2020

Disrupting Disruption Pt. 2 — Ben Thompson

The “divine discontent” critique

Jul 30, 2020

Means of Creation #4: Leah Culver & Erik Berlin

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

Jul 24, 2020

Complexity Convection

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

Jul 23, 2020

Means of Creation #3: Lenny Rachitsky

On newsletters, platforms, marketplaces, and more

Jul 19, 2020

Disrupting Disruption

Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong

Jul 16, 2020

Means of Creation #2: Greg Isenberg

On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities

Jul 11, 2020

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

Jul 8, 2020

Announcing: Means of Creation

A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly

Jul 3, 2020

Product Case Study: HEY

A radical new take on email

Jun 26, 2020

Will HEY Work?

The dust has settled. Now what?

Jun 23, 2020

5 interesting strategy decisions from WWDC

Decoding Apple's intentions

Jun 13, 2020

Why I wouldn’t invest in consumer health hardware

(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)

Jun 12, 2020

healthOS

Apple is building an operating system for health

Jun 5, 2020

What good is strategy right now?

A conflict of interest

May 31, 2020

Kernel Strategies

Six attributes of high-traction startups

May 21, 2020

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

It’s time to compete. Not complain.

May 20, 2020

PepsiCo goes DTC

One new strategy. Two new websites.