Divinations

Get smarter about business strategy.

Oct 12, 2021

How Memes Control Everything

The Economics of Belief Transmission

Feb 15, 2023

How to Write Essays That Spread

Everything I’ve learned about writing on the internet

Jan 18, 2023

How Physics Explains Business

Physics metaphors are everywhere in business. If you follow where they lead, you end up in fascinating places

Apr 18, 2023

A New Kind of Startup Is Coming

Smaller, faster, cheaper, weirder

Mar 22, 2023

Supercharging My Focus (with Help from AI)

GPT-powered journaling is changing my life

Jan 3, 2023

Beware Flavored Software

If you’re building the tech equivalent of balsamic strawberry ice cream, don’t expect vanilla scale

Mar 29, 2023

OpenAI: the Next Tech Giant?

Reading the tea leaves and reacting to the hype

Jun 29, 2022

What kind of company do you want to build?

Scale, speed, or freedom: choose two

Jul 13, 2022

Did Medium Succeed?

The past, present, and future of writing on the internet

Mar 15, 2022

Substack’s Ideology

The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.

Aug 9, 2022

Execution is Exponential

The math that quantifies how much execution matters

Mar 1, 2023

How Ideas Grow

Narratives have network effects

Apr 21, 2022

DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts

By Means of Natural Selection

May 3, 2023

Robo-Coaches Are Here

How I learned to stop worrying and love the robots that tell me what to do

Oct 25, 2022

Writing with Machines

How AI will—and won’t—change writing

Jul 26, 2022

Instagram’s Existential Bet

They’re betting the farm on Reels. Will it blow up in their face?

Feb 8, 2023

Chatbots’ Time Has Come. Why Now?

Narratives have network effects

Oct 18, 2022

How Lex Happened

25,000 users in 24 hours

Feb 1, 2023

The Endgame for AI-generated Writing

What will happen to the internet?

Nov 23, 2022

My Philosophy of Product Building

Mastering the art of 0 to 1

Dec 17, 2020

Why Content is King

How media creates power

Mar 8, 2023

Book Review: Mastery

How to gain serenity *and* success with one weird trick (care less about results, and learn to love the process)

Oct 11, 2022

Will the Metaverse replace PCs?

Meta thinks it will, and they are betting everything on it.

Sep 20, 2022

Figma’s Layered Lessons

Or, how to learn something useful from big events