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.
Why is there so much animosity between the tech industry and journalists? Dan and Nathan try to sort through the muck.
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Hints that your strategy isn't working
Or, why friendly ambitious nerds will change the world
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Two new things this week for subscribers! I narrated an audio version of this article just for paying subscribers like you. I’m going to do
Dan and Nathan discuss balancing meetings with getting writing done. They also discuss balancing living a happy life with trying to put out
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
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
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
(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)
The co-founders of Breaker, on podcasting, platforms, and media
Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.
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
She distills the secrets of the world's most successful people & companies
All reviews of books, podcasts, articles, etc
Plus, how to be a person on the Internet, with Visakan Veerasamy
Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin
Good afternoon! Here’s the audio version of the Quibi essay that Adam Keesling and I published today. It’s narrated by me, and the first few
Dan and Nathan start out discussing the concept of Talk Therapy: a place to talk about the process of building a media business as it happen
Read to the end for live streaming insights for music creators
Hello! Welcome to Three Shorts, a recurring series where I unpack the strategy behind the news in as few bullet points as possible.Enjoy!Fas
The "Divinations" Summary / Review
An introduction to one of Michael Porter’s most enduring frameworks
