Everything Sunday Digest

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Hello and happy Labor Day Weekend!

We hope you’re sitting on a beach somewhere mindlessly scrolling through Twitter as much as we are.

We’re continuing our Sunday Digest experiment with a new section: Noted, tidbits from our little corners of the world. We’re gathering all of the latest news, photos, products, and tweets that are relevant to the topics we cover in one place. Check it out below.

Enjoy!

What we published this week

We published 5 new articles totaling ~8,000 words, a podcast episode, and hosted a bundle crossover event.

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This Week’s Top Posts

(Ranked by the % of people who said the post was “amazing” in our feedback forms.)

1. 💞#25 - Behind the scenes of our first ad deal 🎧 by Dan Shipper & Nathan Baschez in Talk Therapy (36 min)
2. 📐The Quest for Monopoly by Marc Rubinstein in Napkin Math (2,455 words)
3. ⚡️The Science of Productivity Cycles 🔒 by Dan Shipper in Superorganizers (1,333 words)
4. 📐The Investment Opportunity in School Bus Operators by Adam Keesling in Napkin Math (1,427 words)
5. 🔮 Disrupting Disruption: Helmer's Razor 🔒 by Nathan Baschez in Divinations (1,328 words)
6. ⚡️How I Took Notes on 250+ Books in Roam by Nat Eliason in Superorganizers (1,415 words)
7. 🔮 Strategy Smells by Nathan Baschez in Divinations (787 words)
8. ⚡️Open Thread: How do you manage your inbox? 🔒

⚡️Bundle crossover: Dan interviewed Tiago Forte about the 4 Levels of Personal Knowledge Management

Noted

Tidbits from our little corners of the world.

We’re trying something new: gathering news, photos, products, and tweets that our writers loved this week and bringing them to you in one place.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

The Air by Microclimate — or as we like to call it: peak 2020. Imagine going to a party in one of these bad boys.

NEWS

• Patreon raised a round at a $1.2 billion valuation
• Andy Sparks left Holloway to become a creator 
• An investigation into the VCBrags Twitter account
• Nat Eliason launched a new course. He and Tiago Forte did a webinar with 2000+ registrants 🤯
• David Sacks, founder of Yammer, launched a Substack 👀 (someone please tweet him and tell him to join the bundle)