Nathan Baschez is the cofounder and CEO of AI word processor Lex. He cofounded Every, was the first employee at Substack, and co-created Product Hunt.
How media creates power
Everything I’ve learned about writing on the internet
The Economics of Belief Transmission
Smaller, faster, cheaper, weirder
By Means of Natural Selection
The lifecycle of a business is to be born simple, grow complex, and then die.
How the tool for networked thought can grow into its $200m valuation
GPT-powered journaling is changing my life
Physics metaphors are everywhere in business. If you follow where they lead, you end up in fascinating places
The past, present, and future of writing on the internet
Reading the tea leaves and reacting to the hype
If you’re building the tech equivalent of balsamic strawberry ice cream, don’t expect vanilla scale
The content format is a red herring. What really matters is the structure and purpose of TikTok’s network, which is antithetical to Instagram.
…but is OpenAI the new Intel?
The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.
Five lesser-known benefits of thinking out loud
They’re betting the farm on Reels. Will it blow up in their face?
Scale, speed, or freedom: choose two
How I learned to stop worrying and love the robots that tell me what to do
The math that quantifies how much execution matters
How to make 1 + 1 = 3
An introduction to Clay Christensen’s most underrated idea: “The Conservation of Modularity”
Narratives have network effects
The dust has settled. Now what?
