The Sunday Digest: Stepping Back In

Wow, we haven’t done a Digest since last year. And based on the 12 months of news that were packed into this week—it really feels like it.

Returning from a break—whether it’s actual Away Time or just time away—isn’t always easy. For some of us, it’s not always fast, either: the muscle memory is there, but it takes some time to get back to working at your usual pace.

But maybe you’re starting something new, and it’s giving you momentum. Or maybe the time off was just what you needed. Maybe—or probably, given this crowd—you never actually stopped.

Wherever you’re at right now (on the map, or in your feelings), you’re reading this in a new year. Some years start slow but this one has—ahem—not. We don’t want to distract from everything that’s happening in the world—and we probably couldn’t. But we can, quite simply, offer something else, and something different, for you to read.

Since the last Digest, we’ve seen the year out by introducing The Prediction Game and letting you in on some of our favorite books. In the first week of this year, we managed to churn some new stuff out, too—from a followup to one of last year’s biggest Divinations hits to reactions to the first batch of 2021 business news. Consider this our quiet entry into a year where we’re planning to turn up the volume quite a bit. And yes, that’s a reference to the launch we keep plugging:

Things will be a little quieter around here for another week or two, but you should expect something awesome soon :)

What We Published

The lowdown on our latest, including 3 articles, 2 podcasts, and a live conversation.

📝 ARTICLES 📝

📐 My Favorite Company Deep Dives of 2020

by Adam Keesling in Napkin Math

Adam kicked off the new year in generous fashion, highlighting the business explorations he kept coming back to over the past twelve months. The outlets are as varied as the subjects, from Kevin Kwok going long on Snowflake & Mike Speiser to Scuttleburb’s look at the leaders in freelance marketplaces. Plus, there’s space carved out for some Napkin Math classics. We could get into this as a New Year’s tradition.

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💝 Why Vice is Building an OnlyFans Community

in Means of Creation

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