July 2021 archive

Every article we published in July 2021.

Jul 1, 2021

The Dark Side of Noom

Untangling the weight-loss app’s many promises

Taylor Majewski

Jul 2, 2021

EIP-1559: Can Ethereum Replace Bitcoin as Digital Gold? - DeFriday #7

Is 1559 all hype? Or will it send Ethereum to the moon?

Nat Eliason

Jul 2, 2021

In Practice: My Newest Beta Product

Come take an early peak at the future

Evan Armstrong

Jul 4, 2021

The Sunday Digest: Get Glassy

Everything we published this week + Taylor Majewski's latest

Every Team

Jul 8, 2021

Jarrod Dicker Is Thinking A Lot About ‘Web 2.5’

The TCG partner on the most interesting investment opportunities in crypto right now

Every Team

Jul 9, 2021

Is Internet Receipt Culture Our Undoing?

Cyberbits #8: How demands for evidence have become an impossible quest for truth

Fadeke Adegbuyi

Jul 9, 2021

Proof of Green: How Ethereum 2.0 Solves Crypto's Energy Concerns - DeFriday #8

Stake? I thought you said Steak!

Nat Eliason

Jul 9, 2021

The Sunday Digest: Napkin Math turns to pricing

Everything we published this week

Every Team

Jul 9, 2021

Pricing Strategy is Product Strategy

How Technology Enables Companies to Charge More

Evan Armstrong

Jul 10, 2021

The Inner Ring of The Internet

Hi, Nathan here! It’s been too long, I know!! I’ve got a big piece on product wedges coming out next week, but today I am so excited to shar

Ali Montag

Jul 12, 2021

How to find your writing "voice."

Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter

Rachel Jepsen

Jul 12, 2021

#85 - Understanding the cofounder relationship through...Game Theory?

Hot off a week spent brushing up on the finer points of game theory, Dan tells Nathan why a study in human behavior—specifically, cooperatio

Every Team

Jul 14, 2021

The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships

The disappearing divide between “followers” and “friends”

Fadeke Adegbuyi

Jul 16, 2021

Antifragile Finance: How Hacks Make DeFi Stronger - DeFriday #9

We're all in this together.

Nat Eliason

Jul 16, 2021

How Free to Play Video Games are Forced to Make Addicts

A Case Study on Market Structures and Harm

Evan Armstrong

Jul 16, 2021

The Product Wedge: How To Scope Your Initial Product

How and why early-stage startups sacrifice power for growth

Nathan Baschez

Jul 16, 2021

Are Writers Part of the Parasocial Economy?

Cyberbits #9: How online writing is converging with internet influencing

Fadeke Adegbuyi

Jul 18, 2021

The Sunday Digest: The Long Conversation comes to print

Every thing we published this week

Every Team

Jul 19, 2021

Chaotic Good

Or, how to stop hating yourself and start writing.

Rachel Jepsen

Jul 19, 2021

#86 - Ali Montag on why The Narrative isn't worth chasing

Dan and Nathan are joined by writer and reporter Ali Montag, whose guest post on "The Inner Ring of the Internet" was published on Divinatio

Every Team

Jul 20, 2021

Inside the Longform Content Game at Twitter

“There’s a massive appetite for content that goes beyond 280“ - Head of Longform Content Nick Sallon

Li Jin

Jul 21, 2021

How to get your creative work back on track

Artist and designer Coleen Baik shows us how to make a "What's Next" deck

Coleen Baik

Jul 22, 2021

Snowflake: How a Revenue Retention Behemoth was Built

TL;DRThis is the second post on a deep dive in GTM metrics with a focus today on Revenue RetentionSnowflake is a software Dracula. It latche

Evan Armstrong

Jul 22, 2021

#87 - How Joshua Ogundu found a therapist

Nathan and Dan welcome Joshua Ogundu, a fellow member of the LA tech community, to the podcast for an open and insightful conversation about

Every Team

Jul 23, 2021

For Holden Page, director of FinLedger, business writing is changing tech for the better

He's an optimist in a habitually gloomy industry

Sherrell Dorsey

Jul 23, 2021

The Plastic World of RealSelf

Cyberbits #10: “The TripAdvisor of Boob Jobs”

Fadeke Adegbuyi

Jul 23, 2021

Can Ethereum Be Ultra-Sound Money? - DeFriday #10

Or is it all ultra-hopium?

Nat Eliason

Jul 24, 2021

Master the Art of Storytelling with Adam Davidson

Everything we published this week, plus: a cohort-based course we think you'll love

Every Team

Jul 26, 2021

Playing Games to Earn a Living in the Metaverse

“As a player, you actually earn 2-3x more than an entry-level job” - Gabby Dizon, co-founder of Yield Guild Games

Li Jin

Jul 26, 2021

Unstuck Yourself!

Keyword brainstorming, freewriting exercises, my favorite prompts, and more ways to find your next great essay idea

Rachel Jepsen

Jul 26, 2021

#88 - Why your emotions don't always mean what you think

Nathan got himself a new fitness tracking device—and promptly found himself using it to track something unexpected: emotions. Returning to a

Every Team

Jul 27, 2021

Walking as a Productivity System

How walks create the foundation of Craig Mod's creative work

Kieran O‘Hare

Jul 28, 2021

Twilio’s Second Act

Twilio rode its API to a $66B valuation. Now it’s trying to become the Universal Switchboard for the internet.

Evan Armstrong

Jul 30, 2021

Genius Verified: Where Singers Spill Song Secrets

Cyberbits #11: Deciphering the hidden meaning behind popular lyrics

Fadeke Adegbuyi

Jul 30, 2021

Regulate Who? The Weird Legal World of DeFi - DeFriday #11

Did this Unicorn take your money?

Nat Eliason