Evan Armstrong

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

Oct 26, 2023

Live Fuller, Not Bigger

You must escape the shallow joy of more

Nov 30, 2023

How I Use ChatGPT (As A Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

Jun 10, 2022

Software is Eating the Individual

The Embedded Human

Aug 4, 2022

The Meh-taverse

A Book Review

May 12, 2022

Crypto’s Failed Promise

The problem with crypto-as-a-nation-state

Feb 2, 2023

AI Looks Like a Bubble

Investors need to take a cold shower

May 11, 2023

Why Are Republicans Better at Making Money on the Internet?

What consumer tech and media got wrong

May 25, 2023

Dying Whales and Dying Billionaires

A note about power

Apr 13, 2023

Steve Jobs’ Legacy for Builders

A book that lit a fire in my soul

Nov 2, 2023

How to Win Arguments and Manipulate Managers

Make your spreadsheets shape strategy

Jun 16, 2022

Selective Optimism

People who promise high returns forever are liars

Sep 8, 2022

What I Learned From Being Cancer Free

Seven Years of Freedom

Jul 28, 2022

Snapchat’s Probably Screwed

Apple's ATT Fallout Continues

Jun 15, 2023

OpenAI’s Code Interpreter Is About to Remake Finance

Get in loser, we’re disrupting Oracle

Aug 10, 2023

The Futility of Utility

Why do I choose to do things that aren't in my best interest?

Mar 30, 2023

Tinder Is Way More Important Than You Think

Forget AI, the people want to bone

Oct 1, 2024

Dad Mode

The secret to personal growth isn't in self-help books or ayahuasca trips. It's in a $1.99 pregnancy test from Target.

Oct 19, 2023

Every Software Business Has the Same Playbook

The strange contradiction at the heart of B2B SaaS

Sep 22, 2022

The AI Writer

How tech is changing what it means to be an author

Apr 20, 2023

You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup

It’s overrated—both financially and emotionally

Dec 7, 2023

The Impossibility of Being Charlie

RIP to nerd Jesus

Sep 15, 2022

When Creation Goes To Zero

Skynet Who?

Nov 16, 2023

COGS: How I Bankrupted MoviePass

An intuitive explainer for how to lose money and win anyway

Jan 6, 2022

What the hell is going on with Lambda School?

The complicated business of selling social good