Now: Product @NfiniteApp | Was: @Buzzer, @BleacherReport, @BuzzFeedNews | Way back: Played a bit of left tackle in middle school
Nov 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
@nbashaw during the holiday break, I started to outline a novel idea in Bear and just took it to Lex.
A few notes:
1. The editor is great
2. Small issue (I'm using @browsercompany's Arc) is that as I get near the bottom of my screen, the scroll doesn't always catch-up
@nbashaw@browsercompany 3. Summarize + distill what I wrote into themes is pretty incredible! It's not earth shattering but it def was more succinct than my initial phrasing and helped me go back and narrow
Nov 28, 2022 • 12 tweets • 11 min read
With Post.news (+Twitter adjacent clones focused on media)... I feel like they miss the essential lesson from Substack's early success
> Solve an existing problem don't invent new ones! <
@BlendleUS There's a reason why Post.News (Post) is reserving accounts for the NYT, Washington Post, Conde's pubs, etc...
The people who work there don't see Post actually helping them grow audience or sell subscriptions!
Aug 31, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
After 81 years (!) The NYT is finally cutting the cord on publishing TV Listings nytimes.com/2020/08/28/ins…
👇 a few thoughts about why TV Listings lasted for so many decades, where the NYT (and others) are today, and what could be worth investing in going forward
to be clear:
it's Sunday and I'm waiting for water to boil so please note this is all stream of conscious and tbh not that urgent or important (esp not important) but I'm feeling nostalgic for the days when I'd stare at grids and tables in the paper
May 6, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
👏 to the team at Wired for their tireless efforts to sell more digital subscriptions. 🙌 to @nxthompson for sharing granular data + lessons learned wired.com/story/wired-pa…
(feel free to mute me... I'm gonna share a few thoughts based off of what was shared in that post!)
👀 that stood out to me was how much of a focus is on a funnel of individual articles --> sell subscriptions.
Especially this breakdown of the "top 10 articles" that sold subscriptions for us.
Nov 16, 2018 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Lots of convos this week about Quartz, NY Mag, The Correspondent, etc, etc...
I want to take a moment to 🙌 one of my favorite publications of the last (approx) year: @cleantheglass (run by @bencfalk)
If you are a 🏀 fan or just someone who cares about publishing... <thread>
Backstory: Ben Falk is a former NBA executive who worked for the Portland Trailblazers and Philadelphia 76ers. He broke down film, produced new ways of looking at stats, and helped teams make decisions
