Every article we published in August 2020.
On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing
The “divine discontent” critique
Welcome to the Sunday edition of Everything, the best business writing on the internet. You’re getting this weekly digest because you signed
Nathan and Dan discuss how a new kind of media business model requires them to rethink how to fairly compensate writers for the bundle. Ho
Book review of The End of Accounting: there are four problems with current financial statements and intangible assets are the biggest reason why.
A review of the Q2 earnings: growth in digital subscriptions, a fall in advertising, and a decline in APRU due to long-term investing.
Fool me once, shame on you...
Nathan and Dan discuss how they test for what kind of content resonates. P.S. — Here’s the essay on Oatly’s marketing by Nat Eliason just p
Resurfacing Tiago’s in-depth P.A.R.A series
Two theories; one of them good
Sunday August 9th, 2020
How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings
Nathan and Dan talk through the experiments they’ve run with the weekly Sunday digests and what they’re going to try next. Here’s the link t
I'm interviewing Li Jin and Adam Davidson on Friday!
The history of cloud computing, how DevOps and Observability became so big, and the fate of Datadog
Examining the hidden gems inside of your iPhone
Brian Wang joins Nathan and Dan on a special episode that’s longer than usual! Brian’s an executive coach who helps founders with the emoti
Sunday, August 14, 2020
In a follow-up to their conversation with executive coach Brian Wang last episode, Dan and Nathan discuss addressing small pain points — bot
A new talk show starring Li Jin and Nathan Baschez
The author of The Personal MBA shares his process for finding answers hiding in plain sight
Welcome to Means of Creation!Every Friday, Li and Nathan interview a guest in the passion economy — founders, creators and operators who are
The difference between a contractor and an employee, what Uber's existing business looks like and how AB5 will impact their financials.
Li Jin, who co-hosts Means of Creation with Nathan, comes on the show to discuss the economics of her partnership with Every. How did you
Happy Saturday! For a long time I’ve wanted to make the Superorganizers archive more useful. There’s a ton of information in there, but the
Hello and happy Sunday! We’re continuing our Sunday Digest experiment with another round of rankings of everything we published this week.
The content format is a red herring. What really matters is the structure and purpose of TikTok’s network, which is antithetical to Instagram.
A history of stock market exchanges: from fragmentation to monopoly, monopoly to fragmentation and back again.
A new version of the Superorganizers file cleaning utility
We’re launching a new series to bring you along the journey of figuring out Every’s visual identity! The first episode (which is longer tha
The Consumer Social innovator on how audiences become communities — and how you should monetize them
What drivers think of AB 5, why it was written, and the pricing differences between services
Dan and Nathan discuss productivity cycles, the latest version of Sparkle, Dan’s file management system, and how they relate to Nathan’s new
Gaurav Vohra on how he uses focus and flow to find order in the chaos of his work life
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