August 2020 archive

Every article we published in August 2020.

Aug 2, 2020

Means of Creation #5: Nathan Barry

On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing

Nathan Baschez

Aug 2, 2020

Disrupting Disruption Pt. 2 — Ben Thompson

The “divine discontent” critique

Nathan Baschez

Aug 2, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

Welcome to the Sunday edition of Everything, the best business writing on the internet. You’re getting this weekly digest because you signed

Every Team

Aug 5, 2020

#17 - How should we compensate creators?

Nathan and Dan discuss how a new kind of media business model requires them to rethink how to fairly compensate writers for the bundle. Ho

Dan Shipper

Aug 5, 2020

Intangible Assets: The Invisible Value Driver

Book review of The End of Accounting: there are four problems with current financial statements and intangible assets are the biggest reason why.

Adam Keesling

Aug 7, 2020

Oatly: The New Coke

Fool me once, shame on you...

Nat Eliason

Aug 7, 2020

New York Times: Investing In The Long Term

A review of the Q2 earnings: growth in digital subscriptions, a fall in advertising, and a decline in APRU due to long-term investing.

Adam Keesling

Aug 7, 2020

#18 - How do we decide what to publish?

Nathan and Dan discuss how they test for what kind of content resonates. P.S. — Here’s the essay on Oatly’s marketing by Nat Eliason just p

Dan Shipper

Aug 8, 2020

P.A.R.A — An Introduction

Resurfacing Tiago’s in-depth P.A.R.A series

Tiago Forte

Aug 9, 2020

Disrupting Disruption: Alex Danco

Two theories; one of them good

Nathan Baschez

Aug 9, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

Sunday August 9th, 2020

Every Team

Aug 11, 2020

The CEO with an Empty Calendar

How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings

Dan Shipper

Aug 12, 2020

#19 - What should we do with our weekly digest?

Nathan and Dan talk through the experiments they’ve run with the weekly Sunday digests and what they’re going to try next. Here’s the link t

Dan Shipper

Aug 12, 2020

The inventors of "the passion economy" thesis, live on Zoom

I'm interviewing Li Jin and Adam Davidson on Friday!

Nathan Baschez

Aug 13, 2020

Sometimes You’re The Datadog, Sometimes You’re The Hydrant

The history of cloud computing, how DevOps and Observability became so big, and the fate of Datadog

Adam Keesling

Aug 13, 2020

5 Ways to Get the Most Out of iOS

Examining the hidden gems inside of your iPhone

Every Team

Aug 14, 2020

#20 - Couples therapy ft. executive coach Brian Wang

Brian Wang joins Nathan and Dan on a special episode that’s longer than usual! Brian’s an executive coach who helps founders with the emoti

Dan Shipper

Aug 15, 2020

P.A.R.A. Part 2 — Just-In-Time Organization

Resurfacing Tiago’s in-depth P.A.R.A series

Tiago Forte

Aug 16, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

Sunday, August 14, 2020

Every Team

Aug 19, 2020

#21 - What's the right kind of bad?

In a follow-up to their conversation with executive coach Brian Wang last episode, Dan and Nathan discuss addressing small pain points — bot

Dan Shipper

Aug 19, 2020

Announcing Means of Creation

A new talk show starring Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

Every Team

Aug 20, 2020

How Josh Kaufman Does Research 

The author of The Personal MBA shares his process for finding answers hiding in plain sight

Every Team

Aug 20, 2020

Sahil Lavingia wants creators to get interest on their interests

Welcome to Means of Creation!Every Friday, Li and Nathan interview a guest in the passion economy — founders, creators and operators who are

Li Jin

Aug 20, 2020

How AB 5 Will Break Uber’s Business

The difference between a contractor and an employee, what Uber's existing business looks like and how AB5 will impact their financials.

Adam Keesling

Aug 21, 2020

#22 - A behind-the-scenes look into a media deal ft. Li Jin

Li Jin, who co-hosts Means of Creation with Nathan, comes on the show to discuss the economics of her partnership with Every. How did you

Dan Shipper

Aug 22, 2020

Organizing Superorganizers

Happy Saturday! For a long time I’ve wanted to make the Superorganizers archive more useful. There’s a ton of information in there, but the

Every Team

Aug 22, 2020

P.A.R.A. Part 3 — How to build serendipity into your productivity system

Resurfacing Tiago’s in-depth P.A.R.A series

Tiago Forte

Aug 23, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

Hello and happy Sunday!  We’re continuing our Sunday Digest experiment with another round of rankings of everything we published this week.

Every Team

Aug 24, 2020

Instagram can’t recreate TikTok’s Magic

The content format is a red herring. What really matters is the structure and purpose of TikTok’s network, which is antithetical to Instagram.

Nathan Baschez

Aug 25, 2020

The Quest for Monopoly

A history of stock market exchanges: from fragmentation to monopoly, monopoly to fragmentation and back again.

Adam Keesling

Aug 26, 2020

New for Members: Sparkle v. 0.6

A new version of the Superorganizers file cleaning utility

Every Team

Aug 26, 2020

#23 - Designing our visual identity

We’re launching a new series to bring you along the journey of figuring out Every’s visual identity! The first episode (which is longer tha

Dan Shipper

Aug 27, 2020

The Art of Unbundling, with Greg Isenberg

The Consumer Social innovator on how audiences become communities — and how you should monetize them

Li Jin

Aug 28, 2020

Uber and Lyft Live Once Again

What drivers think of AB 5, why it was written, and the pricing differences between services

Adam Keesling

Aug 28, 2020

#24 - Are we a tech or media company?

Dan and Nathan discuss productivity cycles, the latest version of Sparkle, Dan’s file management system, and how they relate to Nathan’s new

Dan Shipper

Aug 29, 2020

How the Head of Growth at Superhuman Does His Email

Gaurav Vohra on how he uses focus and flow to find order in the chaos of his work life

Dan Shipper

Aug 30, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

This week’s Everything Sunday Digest is sponsored by the Techmeme Ride Home podcast, the daily tech news podcast of record. Click here to su

Every Team