Dan and Nathan discuss the reasons why the crying CEO selfie felt so wrong, then talk about why hiring a tutor is easier than you think and is definitely worth it, then explore the exponential impact that solid execution can have on a business, then Dan tells us all about his 7-day silent meditation retreat.

Amanda Natividad is a marketer that grew her Twitter audience from 0 to 100k in just two years. In that same span of time Nathan grew his Twitter following from like 12k to 37k. (Cue sad trombone wah-wah sound.) In this special interview episode of Ordinary Astronauts, Nathan learns everything he can from Amanda about how to grow an audience, and they even live workshop a tweet at the end. Turns out, God really is in the details. Enjoy!

In the shortest episode yet (because Dan had a meditation retreat to get to), Dan and Nathan discuss the big shift that might be happening away from friend/follow graphs and towards algorithmic feeds, then talk about how going it alone as an online creator might be overrated, and end on a discussion of how meditation helps you feel better—but not in the way that you think.

Dan and Nathan discuss Instagram's recent shift towards becoming more like TikTok, the growing meme that advanced note-taking setups are "mid", and why psychologically, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

Nathan interviews Logan Bartlett, a managing director at Redpoint Ventures and creator of the Cartoon Avatars podcast, which has become the official home of the web3 debate in tech.

Four topics: What happened to Medium? What's a good way to analyze market ecosystems? Should we look for one single true philosophy, or can we think of philosophies like culinary traditions? Is our mental chatter meaningful or meaningless?