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 to navigate strange new paradigms that could change everything—unless they don’t.
A messy slog that changed everything for me
The future of social networks is in smaller communities
My chapter-by-chapter summary, with notes and reactions
The origins of economic progress, and what comes next
Rating my predictions from 2020: what worked, what didn’t, and what I learned along the way
Opening up to external content is the only way to ensure durability, scalability, and defensibility.
Say you just launched a product to a group of users for the first time. What now?
It's like if Wordle and a mini-crossword had a baby.
How the Fed accidentally scuttled your Series B, simply explained
The blue check fiasco reveals a shallow understanding of how status motivates participation in social networks. Here is a deeper look.
How and why early-stage startups sacrifice power for growth
Building your v1
And what content creators can learn from open-source developers
An introduction to Clay Christensen’s most underrated idea: “The Conservation of Modularity”
To Axie Infinity And Beyond!
A guide to the “right way” (discounted cash flow analysis), and why “everything is dumb right now.”
Real data from our business showing how execution is exponential
And does it matter?
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On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities
Packy McCormick, author of Not Boring, one of the most widely-read analysts in tech. His newsletter now has more than 75k subscribers and he
Commoditizing tweets’ complement (the algorithm) will increase usage and rebuild trust
(Spoilers, as usual!) In the this episode of Ted Lasso, Higgins decides to take Coach Beard aside and ask him whether he really thinks it's
