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Nathan Baschez — On AI Writing, Thought Design & Solo Foundership (EP.265)

2025/4/24
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Nathan Baschez introduces Lex, an AI word processor designed to assist writers. Lex acts like a trainer or spotter, urging writers to delve deeper into their work. It helps with fact-checking, improving transitions, and refining word choices, ultimately enhancing the writing process. The tool promotes collaboration by enabling users to engage with AI in the document, fostering a more thoughtful and detailed approach to writing.
  • Lex functions as an AI-powered writing assistant, offering real-time suggestions and fact-checking.
  • It helps writers refine their work by improving transitions and word choices.
  • The tool encourages collaboration with AI, making the writing process more thoughtful.

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Nathan Baschez is the cofounder and CEO of Lex, an AI word-processor. He also cofounded Every, was the first employee at Substack AND co-created Product Hunt.

Suffice to say, Nathan knows a thing or two about building on the internet.

He joins the show to discuss how AI is changing writing, why it’s time to rethink the article, the rise of solo founders and MUCH more.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. For the full transcript, episode takeaways, and bucketloads of other goodies designed to make you go, “Hmm, that’s interesting!”, check out our Substack).

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Show Notes:

  • Lex: Your Spotter In the Writing Gym
  • Letting People Into Your Creative Process
  • Collaboration-as-a-Service
  • Creation Is Fundamentally About Choices
  • What Will Become of the AI Holdouts?
  • AI Is Like the Internet In 1995
  • Can AI Unfuck the Government?
  • Blindspots While Working In Organizations
  • Rethinking The ‘Article’ As A Medium
  • Memes Are Dense Information Packets
  • It’s Time for Solo Founders
  • Why Learning About Cumulative Cultural Evolution Is Vital
  • What’s Next for Lex?
  • Writing As A Way To Design Thoughts
  • Nathan As World Emperor

Books Mentioned:

  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life; by George Saunders
  • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous; by Joseph Henrich
  • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter; by Joseph Henrich