Hey Talk Therapy listeners! We hope your holidays were restful, and that you’re having a productive start to this year. We’re pausing Talk
The 2021 Prediction Game has begun.
Dan and Nathan welcome Andre Plaut, creator of The Prediction Game—a competition to predict the events of the coming year for a tantalizing
A competition to predict the events of 2021 for a tantalizing prize
Having spent the week responding to a prompt—What does it feel like to be alive?—Rachel and the Bundle writers spend their final hour of the
It's the final Digest of 2020, but we're focused on this week
Nathan takes Dan behind his latest Divinations essay, “Why Content is King,” from the writing process—which included drafting the piece in l
The National Magazine Award winner and Buzzfeed News data editor relies on transparency, generosity, and collaboration to hold power accountable
How media creates power
Dan and Nathan address the news that’s been dominating the Everything Slack all day: Substack’s long-awaited reader, which collects your new
Visakan Veerasamy on building an audience by making internet friends
And the product dynamics that drive social platforms
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
News Roundup #13: lottery meets YouTuber, Reddit’s Dubsmash acquisition, and a database with 20,000+ newsletters
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
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