Everything we did this week, plus: Startupy, Disney+, & the subscription boom
After giving Nathan proper credit for getting him to finally listen to—and enjoy—podcasts, Dan takes a pressing question from a recent one t
Why get rich slowly?
Nathan loops Dan in on something he thought was a problem: falling in and out of love with different software too quickly. Turns out, it’s m
And what content creators can learn from open-source developers
How you can use psychology to get unstuck
Also in Three Shorts: Amazon buying Wondery, and Calm's $2b valuation
Read to the end for a 9-year-old YouTube star who launched a Roblox world
In China, livestreaming has changed eCommerce. Learn about how it works, what the hosts do during the steam, and how it could impact American eCommerce.
Ask Jerry—Edition Nº 4
Plus: Today's the last day to enter our Writing Contest!
A scheduling update for our next episode
How the professional platform makes networking weird
Reacting to the news of Slack’s purchase by Salesforce, Nathan gets into the different opportunities in hardware vs. software and Dan goes d
And understanding how psychology affects consumer behavior
Ali Hamed of CoVenture shares his tools for getting to the people who can make a difference
Three shorts: the strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible.
Welcome to Issue #11 of the Means of Creation weekly news roundup where we break down the latest news on the passion economy, including the
"I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed."
A look inside the S-1 of Wish. Included is the background of Wish, a look at their margins, how the universal postal union is changing their cost structure, how their CAC is rising and if they are viable long-term.
Send us some of your writing––we might print more of it (and pay!)
Happy Sunday! Charli D’Amelio may have 100 million TikTok followers, but we’ve got 7,000 words for you to read today. An hour of audio cont
Dan and Nathan discuss one of many recent takes on Substack, and try to offer a counterpoint to the idea that newsletter writers need to mak
On Snap's take on TikTok, Apple's developer fee reduction, and Vox's talent attrition.
