October 2020 archive

Every article we published in October 2020.

Oct 1, 2020

How I Took Notes on 250+ Books in Roam

My step-by-step guide for taking book notes in Roam

Nat Eliason

Oct 2, 2020

Spatial Organization

How to find patterns and insights in your notes

Dan Shipper

Oct 3, 2020

#32 - Are we prioritizing correctly?

Dan talks with Nathan about his latest article, Intangible Returns, and they reflect on their own prioritization strategies as a company. W

Dan Shipper

Oct 4, 2020

The Sunday Digest:

Everything we published this week + Noted

Every Team

Oct 6, 2020

Passion Economy News #3: TikTok’s Creator Fund, Amazon Explore, The Edtech Explosion, and More

Read to the end for why Warner Music Group paid $85m for a meme-making company

Li Jin

Oct 6, 2020

Using Commerce to Understand Everything

How Web Smith maps the connections between race, commerce, and history.

Sherrell Dorsey

Oct 7, 2020

How To Use ‘Good Jobs’ To Create A Great Company, with Dan Teran

And the future of worker classification

Li Jin

Oct 7, 2020

Amanda Goetz Doesn't Believe in Balance

The VP of Marketing at the Knot Talks About Blending Rather Than Balancing Work and Life

Dan Shipper

Oct 7, 2020

#33 - How to use Spatial Organizing

Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin

Dan Shipper

Oct 8, 2020

Nike: Direct Relationships & Digital Penetration

Nike just released their latest earnings report. We dive into their "Consumer Direct Offense" strategy, how they combined their brand marketing with technology.

Adam Keesling

Oct 9, 2020

#34 - A Rough Week

After catching up with the latest from Coinbase and its employees, Nathan tells Dan about his week…which honestly sounds more like a country

Dan Shipper

Oct 11, 2020

Why winners sometimes take all, and sometimes don’t

Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”

Nathan Baschez

Oct 11, 2020

Sunday Digest: Introducing The Long Conversation

Everything we published this week + Noted

Every Team

Oct 13, 2020

Passion Economy News #4: Triller Poaching TikTok Stars, David Dobrik Gets Funding for Dispo, Journalistic Entrepreneurialism, and More

Read to the end for an insightful OnlyFans creator AMA

Li Jin

Oct 13, 2020

A new collaboration with Jerry Colonna

Ask Jerry will be a newsletter series produced by me, Andy Sparks and the team at Everything, featuring Jerry Colonna, author of Reboot: Lea

Every Team

Oct 14, 2020

The Mental Model Behind Every High-Performer I Know

During my first college internship, I completely replaced myself with Visual Basic scripts. Let me explain. I had been working in Excel for

Nat Eliason

Oct 14, 2020

Nat Eliason Joins Everything

Hello Everything Members!  Big news: Nat Eliason is joining the bundle with a new paid newsletter. It’s called Almanack, and its mission is

Every Team

Oct 14, 2020

Nat Eliason joins Everything

Hello Everything Subscribers!  Big announcement: today we're launching a new newsletter with our friend Nat Eliason!  You may know Nat from

Every Team

Oct 14, 2020

Introducing: The Long Conversation

The Long Conversation is a weekly live show dedicated to the craft of writing hosted by Rachel Jepsen, Managing Editor of Holloway. Great wr

Rachel Jepsen

Oct 14, 2020

TLC #1: The Instruction of Influence

Hello!You’re getting this email because you signed up to attend The Long Conversation, a live show dedicated to the crafts of writing, readi

Rachel Jepsen

Oct 15, 2020

Striking Out as an Independent Tech Journalist, with Casey Newton

And the future of social media platforms

Li Jin

Oct 16, 2020

#35 - Tricking Nat Eliason into joining the Bundle

Nat Eliason talks to Dan and Nathan about Almanack, his brand-new Bundle newsletter exploring everything it takes for you to live a life tha

Dan Shipper

Oct 17, 2020

Evaluating Your Book Idea

In the beginning, is a message. You have something to say. A message that wants to get out of you. That needs to get out of you or else it w

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

Introducing: How to Land a Book Deal

A Nine-Part Series, from Concept to Launch

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

Writing Your Book

After all this work and finally signing a deal…it’s time to do the thing you’ve been asking for, and write the book. Leave plenty of time to

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

The Ins and Outs of Offers

After you’ve written your proposal and sent it to publishers, the future of your book is in their hands.  If you’ve done your job effectivel

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

Finding an Agent and Publisher

You should think of the people you’re working with at each stage of the publishing process as your publishing team. Each one contributes som

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

Negotiating Your Contract

Once you’ve accepted an offer for the publishing rights to your book, it’s time to draw up and sign a binding contract. Many of these contra

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

Launching Your Book

Everything you’ve done up to this point has been preparation for this singular moment: the launch of your book. An incredible amount of time

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

Own Your Writing Platform

Publishing a book is like running for political office. There are a lot of people out there who you want to take a certain action, at a cert

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

The Complete Guide to Landing a Book Deal

I recently signed a six-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster for my book Building a Second Brain.  As a first-time author, and in the

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

Crafting a Book Proposal

Your proposal is like a business plan for your book. It needs to justify why your book is worth not just years of your time and effort, but

Tiago Forte

Oct 17, 2020

#36 - What can businesses learn from Phytoplankton?

After reflecting on their expectations for the (extremely successful) Almanack launch, Nathan takes Dan through his new investigation of the

Dan Shipper

Oct 18, 2020

Sunday Digest: Two Launches This Week!

Everything we published this week + Noted

Every Team

Oct 19, 2020

Action Item: Playing Offense, The 10-10-10 Test, and Blending

Amanda Goetz, VP of Marketing at The Knot, shares her routines for managing a day job, a startup, and three kids.

Dan Shipper

Oct 20, 2020

Passion Economy News #5: The Prop 22 Debate, Substack’s Mentorship Program, OnZoom’s Event Discovery Push, Business Insider’s potential Morning Brew Acquisition, and More

Read to the end for how women face unique challenges in the passion economy

Li Jin

Oct 20, 2020

Understanding How Internet Culture Works, with Taylor Lorenz

And what it means to be a journalist in 2020

Li Jin

Oct 20, 2020

TLC #2: The Function of Form

Hello! You’re getting this email because you signed up to attend The Long Conversation, a live show dedicated to the crafts of writing, read

Rachel Jepsen

Oct 21, 2020

We need your help!

Hey! We’d love to make the Everything Bundle more useful for you. If you spend 5 minutes answering a couple of questions, you’ll be entered

Every Team

Oct 21, 2020

Who Gets to Solve Death?

The two types of “death tech” companies

Taylor Majewski

Oct 21, 2020

TLC Podcast, Episode 1: The Instruction of Influence

Introducing The Long Conversation: Podcast Edition! In this edited version of Rachel’s first live chat with the Bundle writers, they discuss

Rachel Jepsen

Oct 21, 2020

#37 - Better Business Writing

What began as a weekly “Great Writing” meeting is now the newest member of the bundle! Dan and Nathan reflect on how their joint desire to g

Dan Shipper

Oct 22, 2020

What I got wrong about Quibi

A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup

Nathan Baschez

Oct 23, 2020

What’s Going On When Hard Work Seems Impossible?

Work and procrastination are controlled by the neurotransmitter dopamine. We explore dopamine's role in productivity, and what it means for getting yourself unstuck.

Jonathan Shi

Oct 24, 2020

#38 - RIP Quibi

Dan and Nathan eulogize Quibi – and extend some sympathy to anyone who has a big idea. How did you feel about this episode? Amazing • Good 

Dan Shipper

Oct 25, 2020

River Rising

This story was written by James Yu. At noon sharp, Paz watched as the bailiffs wheeled the Host into the chamber, the red skull mark still f

Every Team

Oct 25, 2020

Sunday Digest

Hello and Happy Sunday! In addition to the usual roundup of our articles, and a glance at what’s been happening on Twitter we added a few n

Every Team

Oct 26, 2020

TLC Podcast, Episode 2: The Function of Form

Rachel talks with Dan, Nathan, Adam, and our newest panelist Taylor Majewski about Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-smashing memoir, In the Drea

Rachel Jepsen

Oct 27, 2020

News Roundup #6: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Livestreams on Twitch

Read to the end for a new tech & society newsletter you won't want to miss

Li Jin

Oct 28, 2020

Announcing "Ask Jerry"

A new advice column on leadership and radical self-inquiry

Every Team

Oct 28, 2020

Facebook's cloud gaming strategy: smarter than it seems

The return of Three Shorts!

Nathan Baschez

Oct 28, 2020

How I Spend 5 Minutes Per Day on Email

You, too, can be free

Nat Eliason

Oct 28, 2020

Jerry Colonna on Co-Founder Resentment

Ask Jerry—Edition Nº 1

Jerry Colonna

Oct 28, 2020

Announcing “Ask Jerry”

A new advice column on leadership and radical self-inquiry

Every Team

Oct 28, 2020

TLC #3: Ask a Journalist, with John H. Richardson

Hello! You’re getting this email because you signed up to attend The Long Conversation, a live show dedicated to the crafts of writing, read

Rachel Jepsen

Oct 28, 2020

TLC #3: Registration link!

Here ya go, folks! I neglected to include a registration link in my last email for TLC #3: Ask a Journalist, with John H. Richardson. Here i

Rachel Jepsen

Oct 29, 2020

Building The Best Tools for Creators, with Joseph Albanese

For our guest this week on Means of Creation we welcomed Joseph Albanese, co-founder and CEO of Stir!As we’ve discussed on the show before,

Li Jin

Oct 29, 2020

Action Item: Progress Over Process, Remembering What You Read, Zettelkasten

Read to the end to learn what else you get from your subscription

Dan Shipper

Oct 29, 2020

#39 - Cultivating Caring

Using the exciting new launch of Ask Jerry as a springboard, Nathan and Dan parse out the importance of radical self-inquiry in business, an

Dan Shipper

Oct 30, 2020

What You Need To Know About The Ant Financial IPO

The largest IPO in history is happening in China with Ant Financial. In this post, we discuss all the services Ant Financial provides and what to expect in the future from Ant.

Adam Keesling