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[Test from Staging] Creeping as a Service (CraaS)

How Spoonbill reveals our obsession with identity

2 Feb 9, 2021 by Fadeke Adegbuyi

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A Post-Mortem for Social Podcast Discovery

Three reasons why RSS still dominates in audio, but not text.

4 🔒 Feb 5, 2021 by Nathan Baschez

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“Why Content is King” Follow-ups

Your questions and critiques, answered!

1 🔒 Jan 5, 2021 by Nathan Baschez

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Why Content is King

How media creates power

Dec 18, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Three Shorts: Axios, Crunchyroll, Periscope

The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible

🔒 Dec 16, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Why AT&T is betting the farm on HBO Max

Also in Three Shorts: Amazon buying Wondery, and Calm's $2b valuation

🔒 Dec 9, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

How the professional platform makes networking weird

Dec 3, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Why Slack Was Willing to Sell

Three shorts: the strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible.

🔒 Dec 2, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Three Shorts: Snap, Apple, Vox

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

🔒 Nov 25, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Three Shorts: Instagram, Spotify, Substack

The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible

🔒 Nov 18, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Three Shorts: Fast’s 1b valuation, McPlant’s power move, and Apple’s disruptive M1 chip

Hello! Welcome to Three Shorts, a recurring series where I unpack the strategy behind the news in as few bullet points as possible. Enjoy!

🔒 Nov 11, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Facebook’s cloud gaming strategy: smarter than it seems

The return of Three Shorts!

🔒 Oct 28, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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What I got wrong about Quibi

A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup

🔒 Oct 22, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Who Gets to Solve Death?

The two types of “death tech” companies

Oct 21, 2020 by Taylor Majewski

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Why winners sometimes take all, and sometimes don’t

Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”

🔒 Oct 11, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Intangible Returns

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

🔒 Sep 29, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Roam’s road ahead

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

Sep 18, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Strategy Smells

Hints that your strategy isn't working

🔒 Sep 4, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Announcement!

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

🔒 Sep 3, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Disrupting Disruption: Helmer’s Razor

Can disruption be simplified?

🔒 Sep 1, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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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.

Aug 24, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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

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

Aug 12, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Disrupting Disruption: Alex Danco

Two theories; one of them good

🔒 Aug 9, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Means of Creation #5: Nathan Barry

On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing

🔒 Aug 2, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Disrupting Disruption Pt. 2 — Ben Thompson

The “divine discontent” critique

🔒 Aug 2, 2020 by Nathan Baschez