Divinations

Get smarter about business strategy.

Jun 5, 2020

What good is strategy right now?

A conflict of interest

Jun 13, 2020

Why I wouldn’t invest in consumer health hardware

(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)

Jun 23, 2020

5 interesting strategy decisions from WWDC

Decoding Apple's intentions

Jun 26, 2020

Will HEY Work?

The dust has settled. Now what?

Jul 3, 2020

Product Case Study: HEY

A radical new take on email

Jul 8, 2020

Announcing: Means of Creation

A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly

Jul 11, 2020

Strategy should be painful

Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat

Jul 16, 2020

Means of Creation #2: Greg Isenberg

On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities

Jul 19, 2020

Disrupting Disruption

Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong

Jul 23, 2020

Means of Creation #3: Lenny Rachitsky

On newsletters, platforms, marketplaces, and more

Jul 24, 2020

Complexity Convection

The lifecycle of a business is to be born simple, grow complex, and then die.

Jul 30, 2020

Means of Creation #4: Leah Culver & Erik Berlin

The co-founders of Breaker, on podcasting, platforms, and media

Aug 2, 2020

Disrupting Disruption Pt. 2 — Ben Thompson

The “divine discontent” critique

Aug 2, 2020

Means of Creation #5: Nathan Barry

On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing

Aug 9, 2020

Disrupting Disruption: Alex Danco

Two theories; one of them good

Aug 12, 2020

The inventors of “the passion economy” thesis, live on Zoom

I'm interviewing Li Jin and Adam Davidson on Friday!

Aug 24, 2020

Instagram can’t recreate TikTok’s Magic

The content format is a red herring. What really matters is the structure and purpose of TikTok’s network, which is antithetical to Instagram.

Sep 1, 2020

Disrupting Disruption: Helmer’s Razor

Can disruption be simplified?

Sep 3, 2020

Announcement!

Plus, how to be a person on the Internet, with Visakan Veerasamy

Sep 4, 2020

Strategy Smells

Hints that your strategy isn't working

Sep 18, 2020

Roam’s road ahead

How the tool for networked thought can grow into its $200m valuation

Sep 29, 2020

Intangible Returns

How strict prioritization processes cause malaise, and why you should take gut instinct more seriously in your planning process.

Oct 11, 2020

Why winners sometimes take all, and sometimes don’t

Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”

Oct 21, 2020

Who Gets to Solve Death?

The two types of “death tech” companies