👋🏻 I have an exciting announcement today: Think Piece is going weekly, I’m going all-in, and you can now subscribe as a founding member.
The Short Version
There is a large gap in the business writing being produced for founders, creatives, and other entrepreneurially minded folks. Hard news is well-covered, and it’s increasingly possible to find smart, tech-critical reporters. Marketing blather we do not lack.1 Threadboi word salad is easy to come by. Motivational content from internet coaches floods our feeds.2
We’re missing the deep thinking.
The majority of researched, philosophical, and interdisciplinary writing being produced about business is from venture capital firms. VC firms use think pieces and white papers to make the case for the worldview that dictates their investments. This writing is designed to create a new reality, one where the worldview is enfleshed through the allocation of funding. Some of this writing is good. Some is not. All of it is motivated by the need to val…