News Roundup #13: lottery meets YouTuber, Reddit’s Dubsmash acquisition, and a database with 20,000+ newsletters
And the product dynamics that drive social platforms
The bestselling novelist shares his recipe for taking notes that spark novels.
After talking through questions of editorship and delegating, Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Adam turn their attention to the week’s reading: Helen
"a ringing sense of mortality underscores everything we write" -Maggie Nelson
Everything we did this week, plus: Startupy, Disney+, & the subscription boom
After giving Nathan proper credit for getting him to finally listen to—and enjoy—podcasts, Dan takes a pressing question from a recent one t
Why get rich slowly?
Nathan loops Dan in on something he thought was a problem: falling in and out of love with different software too quickly. Turns out, it’s m
And what content creators can learn from open-source developers
How you can use psychology to get unstuck
Also in Three Shorts: Amazon buying Wondery, and Calm's $2b valuation
In China, livestreaming has changed eCommerce. Learn about how it works, what the hosts do during the steam, and how it could impact American eCommerce.
Ask Jerry—Edition Nº 4
Read to the end for a 9-year-old YouTube star who launched a Roblox world
Plus: Today's the last day to enter our Writing Contest!
A scheduling update for our next episode
Reacting to the news of Slack’s purchase by Salesforce, Nathan gets into the different opportunities in hardware vs. software and Dan goes d
And understanding how psychology affects consumer behavior
How the professional platform makes networking weird
Three shorts: the strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible.
Ali Hamed of CoVenture shares his tools for getting to the people who can make a difference
"I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed."
A look inside the S-1 of Wish. Included is the background of Wish, a look at their margins, how the universal postal union is changing their cost structure, how their CAC is rising and if they are viable long-term.
