Divinations

Get smarter about business strategy.

Aug 17, 2022

How Every Executes: two tweaks that generated ~54% more paid subscribers

Real data from our business showing how execution is exponential

Jun 5, 2020

What good is strategy right now?

A conflict of interest

Jul 16, 2020

Means of Creation #2: Greg Isenberg

On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities

Dec 17, 2019

How Competition Works

It’s not like war, but it’s not like art class, either.

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

Dec 15, 2021

The Athlete as Creator

How new regulations have brought college athletes into the creator economy, big time

Apr 2, 2020

Why is Netflix more profitable than Spotify?

Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020

Feb 11, 2020

The Four Strategies

How to understand the essence of any business

Feb 5, 2020

How Clay Christensen’s failure helped me process my own

A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker

May 9, 2020

How creators can go “on tour” on the internet

Growing an audience ain’t what it used to be

Apr 7, 2022

Friendly Competition and Subtle Defection

My wife and I recently bought our first home and we’re expecting our first child soon, so, as you can imagine, we’ve been doing a lot of wor

Nov 25, 2020

Three Shorts: Snap, Apple, Vox

On Snap's take on TikTok, Apple's developer fee reduction, and Vox's talent attrition.

May 20, 2020

PepsiCo goes DTC

One new strategy. Two new websites.

Apr 10, 2020

Notion’s $2b Valuation is Sensible, Probably

Three Shorts: Notion, Roam, and “Time Preference”

Jul 3, 2020

Product Case Study: HEY

A radical new take on email

Jan 16, 2022

Eric Newcomer on 2022 Startup Trends

Eric Newcomer is one of the smartest and most plugged in newsletter writers in tech. This week he'll be joining Nathan, Dan, and Evan in the

May 20, 2022

How To Time The Market (Or Not)

A Book Review of “Mastering the Market Cycle”

Feb 19, 2020

Great strategies depend on great inputs — here’s how to find them.

Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.

Jan 20, 2020

Brianne Kimmel’s Momentum Investing

How the founder of WorkLife Ventures built one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after emerging funds from scratch.

Mar 11, 2022

How To Buy The Dip

Is now a great time to buy? Or a terrible one?

Dec 15, 2019

Strategy Drunk

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking

May 31, 2020

Kernel Strategies

Six attributes of high-traction startups

Sep 4, 2020

Strategy Smells

Hints that your strategy isn't working

Jan 10, 2020

Sahil’s Second Act (audio edition)

Hello again! Yesterday after I published the Sahil Lavingia interview I received a tweet from my friend Alex: https://twitter.com/CantHardyW