Talk Therapy

What happens when two friends start a media business?

Jul 22, 2020

#14 - Focus pocus

As the Everything bundle grows, Nathan’s focus seems to have disappeared. Dan helps him troubleshoot, and by the end of the episode, we deci

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

Jun 13, 2020

#3 - How do you choose who to work with?

Dan and Nathan discuss an existential question for any creative and ambitious person: How do you choose to work with someone or on something

Jul 3, 2020

#9 - Tech vs Media hits a new low

Why is there so much animosity between the tech industry and journalists? Dan and Nathan try to sort through the muck.

Nov 13, 2020

#44 - What Kind of Nerd Are You?

After reading Dan’s Superorganizers profile on people person Peter Boyce, Nathan wonders why his hands-on approach to social and business ca

Jun 24, 2021

#84 - Working late is lately working

Nathan's been staying up to write into the wee hours of the night. Talking with Dan about how he balances sporadic work habits with a cohabi

Jun 7, 2021

#81 - Confronting a panic attack

After talking with previous guest Alex Lieberman about panic and anxiety, Dan and Nathan walk through their memories of a panic attack that

Mar 5, 2021

#62 - How to take time off—and actually relax

It's Nathan's turn to take a break. After going over his plans with for a week of relaxing and cooking, he and Dan open up about why it can

Apr 17, 2021

#72 - Does the score always take care of itself?

After Nathan shares his recent run of reading material, he and Dan wonder if the more intense leadership styles layed out in books on manage

Jun 23, 2020

#7 - The Last Chip with Chris Bosh

Dan and Nathan talk about helping Chris Bosh launch a newsletter: The Last Chip.

May 21, 2021

#79 - Is Nathan unmanageable?

Dan had a dream about Nathan. In this episode they unpack it together to try to figure what it means. It turns into a conversation about per

Apr 16, 2021

#71 - Re-introducing Napkin Math, with special guest Evan Armstrong

Dan & Nathan welcome Evan Armstrong, Every's new Napkin Math lead, to the show. Walking through Evan's path to joining the collective, t

May 4, 2021

#75 - Is Dan inconsiderate?

This week, Dan and Nathan tell a story from the before times... (ya know, before therapy). It's about a situation that was extremely difficu

Dec 16, 2020

#50 - Substack Reader is here! Is it good?

Dan and Nathan address the news that’s been dominating the Everything Slack all day: Substack’s long-awaited reader, which collects your new

Feb 5, 2021

#56 - Why audio has a lower “Dunbar’s Number”

With the news that Twitter has acquired the podcasting company Breaker, Nathan walks Dan through his latest Divinations article on the state

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

Feb 16, 2021

#58 - We switched from Slack to Discord, and we’re loving it! Here’s why.

Listen NowNathan and Dan reflect on their first week spent using Discord instead of Slack, and lay out their reasoning for making the jump t

Jun 11, 2020

#2 - Work/Life Harmony

Dan and Nathan discuss balancing meetings with getting writing done. They also discuss balancing living a happy life with trying to put out

Nov 12, 2020

#43 - The Power of Constraints

Nathan walks Dan through the ideas and strategy behind his new Divinations series, Three Shorts. How do you get from the Zone of Ignorance t

Mar 29, 2021

#66 - If the relationship works, the business works

This one goes deep. Recalling their first days working together, Dan and Nathan discuss the ways their relationship has evolved over the pas

May 9, 2021

#76 - Introducing Executive Editor Rachel Jepsen!

Dan and Nathan celebrate Rachel Jepsen's official introduction as Every's Executive Editor! Since last year, Rachel has been working with Ev

Jan 26, 2021

#53 - Drop the ‘thing’ — it’s cleaner

Looking back and ahead after the launch

Apr 27, 2021

#74 - Celebrating Cybernaut, with Fadeke Adegbuyi

Dan and Nathan welcome Every's newest lead writer, Fadeke Adegbuyi, for a discussion about her newsletter Cybernaut, which examines internet

Jul 15, 2020

#12 - It’s Disruption Week!! (part 1)

Dan and Nathan are both writing about Clay Christensen’s iconic theory of disruption, so we decided the second week of July every year is go