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Three shorts: the strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible.
A radical new take on email
Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs
Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020
A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking
A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker
How strict prioritization processes cause malaise, and why you should take gut instinct more seriously in your planning process.
Sonos filled homes with silky smooth sound, but it’s questionable if their strategic decisions made them anything more than commodity hardware.
This is a subscriber-only audio edition of the most recent Divinations essay: “Does Sonos have a moat?” It’s narrated and edited by me, Nath
On Snap's take on TikTok, Apple's developer fee reduction, and Vox's talent attrition.
Hey subscribers! Here is the audio version of the Jesse Beyroutey interview on Dominance Friction. If you haven’t already, I strongly encour
This is the audio edition of Inside the Clubhouse, narrated by me!
A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly
The co-founders of Breaker, on podcasting, platforms, and media
Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”
Whether or not you’ve already had the chance to read Does Sonos have a moat?, I think you’ll love this week’s conversation with Adam Keeslin
Trying something new - what do you think?
On newsletters, platforms, marketplaces, and more