Dan Shipper

@danshipper

Superorganizers

Finding the Truth

What to do when it feels like you're spinning your wheels intellectually

2 🔒 Jan 30, 2021 by Dan Shipper

Superorganizers

How hard should I push myself?

What the science of stress tells us about peak performance

2 Jan 26, 2021 by Dan Shipper

Talk Therapy

We’re taking a (very short) break

Hey Talk Therapy listeners! We hope your holidays were restful, and that you’re having a productive start to this year.  We’re pausing Talk

Jan 4, 2021 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#52 - Inside The Prediction Game, with Andre Plaut

Dan and Nathan welcome Andre Plaut, creator of The Prediction Game—a competition to predict the events of the coming year for a tantalizing

Dec 24, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#51 - How content has network effects

Nathan takes Dan behind his latest Divinations essay, “Why Content is King,” from the writing process—which included drafting the piece in l

Dec 19, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Superorganizers

Action Item: How to stop worrying and love Twitter

Visakan Veerasamy on building an audience by making internet friends

🔒 Dec 17, 2020 by Dan Shipper

Talk Therapy

#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

Dec 17, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Superorganizers

Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan

The bestselling novelist shares his recipe for taking notes that spark novels.

Dec 15, 2020 by Dan Shipper

Talk Therapy

#49 - On Stress: Dan would like to speak with the manager

After giving Nathan proper credit for getting him to finally listen to—and enjoy—podcasts, Dan takes a pressing question from a recent one t

Dec 12, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#48 - Consumable Software

Nathan loops Dan in on something he thought was a problem: falling in and out of love with different software too quickly. Turns out, it’s m

Dec 10, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#47 - What founders can learn from Slack’s story

Reacting to the news of Slack’s purchase by Salesforce, Nathan gets into the different opportunities in hardware vs. software and Dan goes d

Dec 3, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Superorganizers

Action Item: How to create a network from scratch

Ali Hamed of CoVenture shares his tools for getting to the people who can make a difference

🔒 Dec 2, 2020 by Dan Shipper

Talk Therapy

#46 - Is Substack really milquetoast?

Dan and Nathan discuss one of many recent takes on Substack, and try to offer a counterpoint to the idea that newsletter writers need to mak

Nov 26, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Superorganizers

Hunting Knowledge with Eric Jorgenson

How the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant curates wisdom

🔒 Nov 20, 2020 by Dan Shipper

Talk Therapy

#45 - Fleets, Reels, and Shop usher us into a period of turbulence

Dan and Nathan ponder the latest features shipped by Twitter and Instagram, and the reactions to both. At what point do compelling experienc

Nov 19, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Superorganizers

Action Item: The Quest to be Good at Everything

The co-founder of Bark shares his 8 + 1 system for becoming excellent at life

🔒 Nov 17, 2020 by Dan Shipper

Talk Therapy

#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

Nov 13, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#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

Nov 12, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Superorganizers

A Sneak Peak At a Next Generation Personal CRM

A preview of Clay + access to Hebbia.ai

🔒 Nov 11, 2020 by Dan Shipper

Superorganizers

Peter Boyce is a People Person

How a top venture capitalist uses Airtable to build a Personal CRM

🔒 Nov 9, 2020 by Dan Shipper

Talk Therapy

#42 - Keeping Up…with the News (and Work)

Weary of Election Discourse? Dan and Nathan are, too – but they also think there’s some use in paying attention to the world outside of work

Nov 8, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Superorganizers

Action Item: How to become indistractable

We break down Nir Eyal's system for turning down the noise and getting work done

🔒 Nov 6, 2020 by Dan Shipper

Talk Therapy

#41 - A Bad Situation…Compounded

Special Emergency Pod! We invited our friend Mario Gabriele on the show to talk about his experience this week publicly staring down a $6 b

Nov 2, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#40 - Engagement is the ice cream, polarization is the vegetables

Taking a hard look at Substack’s top ten after yet another chaotic week for media (and for everything else), Dan and Nathan dig into the Pub

Nov 1, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Superorganizers

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

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

🔒 Oct 29, 2020 by Dan Shipper