May 2020 archive

Every article we published in May 2020.

May 1, 2020

A system you can keep for life

“I need to get organized so I can do my work,” people say to me often. I want to write a novel, but first I need to organize my notes. I w

Every Team

May 1, 2020

Special Deal for Members: Supercharge Your Productivity Course

My good friend Khe Hy, author of RadReads, is opening up the next batch of his course Supercharge Your Productivity for early birds. I negot

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May 1, 2020

“Shop” from Shopify: right problem, wrong solution

Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs

Nathan Baschez

May 3, 2020

Commonplace Books: A Universal Note-Taking Method That Unites Humanity Across Time and Space

From Ancient Greece to China to Harvard, Commonplace Books Endure

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May 3, 2020

Tiago Forte Is In Everything This Week

A digest of everything we published this week

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May 4, 2020

Finding Power

An introduction to Clay Christensen’s most underrated idea: “The Conservation of Modularity”

Nathan Baschez

May 4, 2020

How To Work Effectively With A Personal Assistant, with Tim Francis

It is NOT easy OR cheap to “hire a VA.” But if done right, it is profoundly transformational not just for your daily workload but for your q

Tiago Forte

May 5, 2020

Stop Trying to Make Hard Work Easy

Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable, explains how to cope even when work is hard.

Every Team

May 7, 2020

Review: Centered.app

The mindful todo list app that's been keeping me focused this week

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May 9, 2020

High Modernist Investors and Postmodern Investors

Hey! Nathan here. I’m thrilled to share this piece with you from behind the paywall of Byrne Hobart’s excellent newsletter, The Diff. Byrne

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May 9, 2020

How creators can go “on tour” on the internet

Growing an audience ain’t what it used to be

Nathan Baschez

May 10, 2020

How to find the most powerful position in any market

Also, a guest appearance from Byrne Hobart of The Diff!

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May 15, 2020

Polina Marinova Pays Attention to the Little Things

How the creator of The Profile learned to read people — and used it to create a popular newsletter

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May 15, 2020

How Domino’s Stock Returned 4,595%

The original cloud kitchen, ten years before it was cool

Adam Keesling

May 16, 2020

Week 25

25 weeks ago, in November 2019, I wrote this in my Notion: - Write and publish a Superorganizers interview once a week - Find a partner to w

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May 17, 2020

Domino's was a cloud kitchen before it was cool

Also, a guest appearance by Justin Gage of Technically

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May 17, 2020

What's React?

Javascript developers hate this one framework

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May 20, 2020

PepsiCo goes DTC

One new strategy. Two new websites.

Nathan Baschez

May 21, 2020

The open podcast ecosystem is dying — here’s how to save it.

It’s time to compete. Not complain.

Nathan Baschez

May 22, 2020

The Fourfold Book Index

How I Take Book Notes

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May 24, 2020

How to Save Open Podcasting

And everything else we published this week

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May 29, 2020

How I Use Screen Time on iOS

Screen Time on iOS is like ice cream cake: so full of promise, and yet also always so underwhelming. It’s probably Apple’s most valuable so

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May 29, 2020

The Jet.com Obituary

The brand couldn’t compete against Amazon, but the acquihire was worth it for Walmart

Adam Keesling

May 31, 2020

Kernel Strategies

Six attributes of high-traction startups

Nathan Baschez

May 31, 2020

How To Use Screen Time on iOS

And everything else we published this week

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