Evan Armstrong

Evan Armstrong is the lead writer at Every. He explores profit and power in technology in his column, Napkin Math.

May 2, 2024

The AI Hardware Dilemma

Why new devices are flopping—and how they might succeed

Jan 12, 2023

In Defense of the Unoptimized Life

Give yourself the space to be inspired

Feb 8, 2024

The One-person Billion-dollar Company

Can AI agents make you a billionaire?

Feb 5, 2021

Revenue: It’s Simple, Until It Isn’t

Finally, a clear explanation of bookings, billings and revenue

Nov 30, 2023

How I Use ChatGPT (As A Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

May 25, 2023

Dying Whales and Dying Billionaires

A note about power

Nov 21, 2023

The Case Against Sam Altman

The board is bad at their job, but they may not be crazy

Jun 15, 2023

OpenAI’s Code Interpreter Is About to Remake Finance

Get in loser, we’re disrupting Oracle

Mar 28, 2024

What Are AI Agents—And Who Profits From Them?

The newest wave of AI research is changing everything

Oct 11, 2023

Falling Out of Love With Michael Lewis

The complicated demands of business writing

Jun 1, 2023

The Cost of Greatness

What will be the blood sacrifice on your altar of ambition?

Apr 6, 2023

We Don’t Know Enough About the Pornhub Acquisition

One of the world’s most important websites was sold and nobody cares

Nov 22, 2022

6 New Theories About AI

Software with superpowers

Jun 3, 2021

Product-Led Growth’s Failure

How a Scrappy Utah Software Company Ignored Every Silicon Valley Heuristic and Won Anyway

May 20, 2021

You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup

It’s overrated—both financially and emotionally

Sep 29, 2022

Why Culture Eats Strategy

The Search For the Winning Formula

Aug 3, 2023

Devote Yourself to the Cause of Your Life

Your to-do list can wait

Jun 29, 2023

What Happened to the Creator Economy?

The burden of missed expectations

Feb 16, 2023

Bada Bing: Why Microsoft Wants Google to Dance

Surely nothing bad will happen with an AI hooked up to the internet

Feb 23, 2023

When Content Creation Goes to Zero

AI is making a world where it costs nothing to produce anything. What happens next?

Oct 14, 2022

Who Wins the AI Value Chain?

It's A Brave New World

Mar 5, 2024

Claude 3 Is The Most Human AI Yet

But that doesn’t mean it's going to beat ChatGPT

Mar 2, 2023

Should I Quit and Start a Franchise?

I’m wondering if I can deep-fry my way out of the apocalypse

Sep 21, 2023

Oh No, I Kinda Want to Work for Elon

An examination of the man-child who would be king