Sunday Digest: Two Launches This Week!

Hello and happy Sunday!

We had a big week! Last Sunday we launched The Long Conversation with Rachel Jepsen, and on Wednesday we launched Almanack with Nat Eliason — bringing two new amazing writers into the bundle.

We’re thrilled to welcome almost 500 new paying subscribers this week. If that’s you, we’re so honored to have you here — and we can’t wait to show you what we have to offer.

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Everything Index - Week of 10/5

• Articles we published — 3
• Podcasts we released — 2
• Live Conversations we hosted — 2
• Amazing Average — 57%
  (Average number of readers who thought our articles were “Amazing” this week)
• Tesla Stock Price — –0.5%
  (Change since last week)
• Chamath’s Number — 4
  (Number of articles on Google News for “Chamath SPAC” from this week)
• People Who Are Wrong — 0 (!)
  (Number of times Rabois tweeted the word “wrong” this week)
• Days Until the Election — 17

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This Week’s Top Posts

Ranked by the % of people who rated the post “amazing” in our feedback forms.

1. 📚The Mental Model Behind Every High-Performer I Know by Nat Eliason in Almanack (2,391 words) 
2. The Complete Guide to Landing a Book Deal by Tiago Forte in Praxis (9 parts)
3. 🗣Episode One: The Rosary 🎥 on The Long Conversation (64 minutes)
4. 💝Passion Economy News #4: Triller Poaching TikTok Stars, David Dobrik Gets Funding for Dispo, Journalistic Entrepreneurialism, and More in Means of Creation (2,274 words)
5. 🅔Nat Eliason Joins Everything (1,856 words)
6. 💞#36 - What Can Businesses Learn from Phytoplankton? 🎧 by Dan Shipper & Nathan Baschez in Talk Therapy (13 min)
7. 💝 Striking Out as an Independent Tech Journalist, with Casey Newton 🎥 on Means of Creation (51 min)
8. 💞#35 - Tricking Nat Eliason into Joining the Bundle 🎧 by Dan Shipper & Nathan Baschez in Talk Therapy (20 min)

COMING UP: THE FUNCTION OF FORM

This week on The Long Conversation, Rachel will host a discussion on Carmen Maria Machado’s 2019 memoir In The Dream House (TW: Intimate Partner Violence.) She’ll use it to help us unpack the connection between the way the book is composed, and the topic Machado is exploring.

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Tidbits from our little corners of the world.

NEWS

• Segment is acquired by Twilio
• Morning Brew is going to sell itself to Insider for more than $75M
• Stripe buys Nigerian startup PayStack for $200M, expands into Africa
• Ryan Caldbeck of CircleUp announces he’s stepping down with a vulnerable tweet storm; Tech Twitter erupts

SMART ARTICLES FROM GOOD PEOPLE

• Byrne Hobart on the Pandemic’s Real Estate Silver Lining
• Bruno Maçães on why America is no longer living in reality
• Why Axios worked
• Packy McCormick on Reliance

TWEETS OF THE WEEK

Hot take, but also maybe:

https://twitter.com/loganbartlett/status/1316891243469832192

…More details on the acquisition:

https://twitter.com/rbranson/status/1315731261772582912

Thread of the Week:

https://twitter.com/stewfortier/status/1316431056430657536

Use this after you’ve read Spatial Organization:

https://twitter.com/daveludavelu/status/1310451017528438786

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK

Some of the best feedback we received in our forms this week:

• “I loved the thought of taking contextual knowledge from ecology and applying it for business. Well done :)” (on What Can Businesses Learn from Phytoplankton?)
• “250+ notes. That made me chuckle” (re: Nat’s note-taking stats, on Nat Eliason Joins Everything)

Keep ‘em coming!

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This post was written by Babe Howard and edited by Dan Shipper.