Sitemap 2020-07

Jul 1, 2020

Why MasterClass Isn’t Really About Mastery

And other lessons from a 9-figure edtech startup

Jul 1, 2020

#8 - The model was actually right!

Four months ago, when we only had a couple hundred paying subscribers, Adam Keesling made a financial model that predicted we’d have 1,462 c

Jul 2, 2020

The Opportunity in Productivity

A tour of the big ideas in new productivity app mymind

Jul 3, 2020

Product Case Study: HEY

A radical new take on email

Jul 3, 2020

#9 - Tech vs Media hits a new low

Why is there so much animosity between the tech industry and journalists? Dan and Nathan try to sort through the muck.

Jul 5, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

Why MasterClass isn't really about Mastery — a new productivity app called "mymind" — HEY's product decisions — and everything else we published this week!

Jul 8, 2020

Scott Belsky’s Elephant List

Adobe’s CPO on relentlessly taking action even on the problems no one is talking about

Jul 8, 2020

The Future of Fitness: lululemon Buys Mirror

Why subscription hardware is better than hardware, the cross-selling opportunity, how Mirror could lead to a connected home, and why Mirror is a call option for Lululemon.

Jul 8, 2020

Announcing: Means of Creation

A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly

Jul 9, 2020

#10 - Escaping the trough of writing sorrow

Dan and Nathan commiserate over their writing slump and strategize how to escape it. Meanwhile, Adam’s essay hits the top of Hacker News! T

Jul 10, 2020

#11 - Two entrepreneurs and a journalist walk into a podcast

Today, Dan and Nathan welcome guest Alex Kantrowitz to Talk Therapy! (This is a special episode that’s twice as long as usual!) Alex left hi

Jul 11, 2020

Is it new or does it suck?

Hey! Dan here. If you're an introspective person, you probably spend a lot of time asking yourself how things are going: Do I like this? Do

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 12, 2020

Will gyms ever recover from COVID-19?

Either way, a digital fitness industry revolution is coming, fast

Jul 12, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

Announcing a new show with Li Jin, two looks into the future of fitness, Scott Belsky's Elephant List, Is It New Or Does It Suck, and more.

Jul 15, 2020

How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves

An unlikely marriage where both sides win

Jul 15, 2020

#12 - It’s Disruption Week!! (part 1)

Dan and Nathan are both writing about Clay Christensen’s iconic theory of disruption, so we decided the second week of July every year is go

Jul 16, 2020

Means of Creation #2: Greg Isenberg

On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities

Jul 16, 2020

Time Budgeting: What I’ve Learned from Doing 364 Weekly Reviews

Why the weekly review is the cornerstone of my life

Jul 16, 2020

We’re looking for great business writers

More about our plans for the Everything bundle and how you can work with us

Jul 17, 2020

#13 - Disruption and its discontents

Dan interviews Nathan about his forthcoming series of Divinations essays that explore critiques of the traditional theory of disruption. In

Jul 18, 2020

Tear Down This Statue

While the U.S. reckons with its painful history, cities have an opportunity to reinvent public art

Jul 19, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

Hello and happy Sunday! What we published this week We published three new articles this week totaling ~7,000 words. We discovered the sec

Jul 19, 2020

Disrupting Disruption

Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong

Jul 22, 2020

#14 - Focus pocus

As the Everything bundle grows, Nathan’s focus seems to have disappeared. Dan helps him troubleshoot, and by the end of the episode, we deci

Jul 23, 2020

How New Ideas Happen

“The first step to a new cosmogony is a step back” — Paul Feyerbend, Against Method Raise your hand if you’ve murdered an idea. I have. It

Jul 23, 2020

Means of Creation #3: Lenny Rachitsky

On newsletters, platforms, marketplaces, and more

Jul 23, 2020

Want to Become a Unicorn? Buy it, Don’t Build it

How Amazon Marketplace works, how Thrasio built a unicorn, the platform risk associated with the strategy, and regulation concerns.

Jul 24, 2020

#15 - Maker weeks & feedback loops

Two things today: First, a bit of follow-up from last episode. We’re alternating weeks where one of us is in “maker mode” and the other is i

Jul 24, 2020

Complexity Convection

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

Jul 25, 2020

How Anne-Laure Le Cunff Wrote 200 Articles In One Year

Mindful productivity helps her stay prolific without burning out

Jul 26, 2020

The Everything Sunday Digest

Sunday July 26th, 2020

Jul 30, 2020

Means of Creation #4: Leah Culver & Erik Berlin

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

Jul 30, 2020

GPT-3 Will Accelerate The Privatization of Internet Communities

What GPT-3 is, GPT-3's capabilities, if GPT-3 will replace jobs, and how it affects social media.

Jul 31, 2020

Follow your heart — with caveats

“Follow your heart” is squishy advice. It’s a Goop headline. It’s a bumper sticker. It’s something you imagine Adam Neumann plastering on

Jul 31, 2020

#16 - Should you follow your heart?

Nathan and Dan discuss his latest Superorganizers essay on the framework he developed to help him follow his heart — and filter for the best

July 2020 archive

Why MasterClass Isn’t Really About Mastery

#8 - The model was actually right!

The Opportunity in Productivity

Product Case Study: HEY

#9 - Tech vs Media hits a new low

The Everything Sunday Digest

Scott Belsky’s Elephant List

The Future of Fitness: lululemon Buys Mirror

Announcing: Means of Creation

#10 - Escaping the trough of writing sorrow

#11 - Two entrepreneurs and a journalist walk into a podcast

Is it new or does it suck?

Strategy should be painful

Will gyms ever recover from COVID-19?

The Everything Sunday Digest

How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves

#12 - It’s Disruption Week!! (part 1)

Means of Creation #2: Greg Isenberg

Time Budgeting: What I’ve Learned from Doing 364 Weekly Reviews

We’re looking for great business writers

#13 - Disruption and its discontents

Tear Down This Statue

The Everything Sunday Digest

Disrupting Disruption

#14 - Focus pocus

How New Ideas Happen

Means of Creation #3: Lenny Rachitsky

Want to Become a Unicorn? Buy it, Don’t Build it

#15 - Maker weeks & feedback loops

Complexity Convection

How Anne-Laure Le Cunff Wrote 200 Articles In One Year

The Everything Sunday Digest

Means of Creation #4: Leah Culver & Erik Berlin

GPT-3 Will Accelerate The Privatization of Internet Communities

Follow your heart — with caveats

#16 - Should you follow your heart?