My wife and I recently bought our first home and we’re expecting our first child soon, so, as you can imagine, we’ve been doing a lot of wor
Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs
How strict prioritization processes cause malaise, and why you should take gut instinct more seriously in your planning process.
How the founder of WorkLife Ventures built one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after emerging funds from scratch.
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
Eric Newcomer is one of the smartest and most plugged in newsletter writers in tech. This week he'll be joining Nathan, Dan, and Evan in the
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 post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup
My recent interview with Jesse Beyroutey solidified a hunch that I’ve been nursing for awhile: Incentive alignment is one of the most import
Sonos filled homes with silky smooth sound, but it’s questionable if their strategic decisions made them anything more than commodity hardware.
Is now a great time to buy? Or a terrible one?
Three Shorts: Facebook Portal — back from the dead!; an advertising arbitrage opportunity; a funny story about the power of incentives
BitClout is a new service that allows anyone to create a publicly-tradable token. Will it work? What effect could it have?
A Book Review of “Mastering the Market Cycle”
The “divine discontent” critique
On newsletters, platforms, marketplaces, and more
The "Divinations" Summary / Review
The return of Three Shorts!
Your questions and critiques, answered!
Decoding Apple's intentions
The Divinations Podcast is back! (If you want to add it to your podcast app, press “add to podcast app” by the audio player above!) This wee
All reviews of books, podcasts, articles, etc
Why I bought an outfit I’ll never wear IRL
Hey! Something special today :) I always wanted to release the raw audio of the interviews I do. But part of the magic of the original inter
