Evan Armstrong

Evan Armstrong was a lead writer at Every who explored profit and power in technology in Napkin Math.

May 11, 2022

Crypto’s Failed Promise

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

Nov 29, 2023

How I Use ChatGPT (As A Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

Mar 8, 2023

Recommendation Algorithms Are a Necessary Evil (Sort Of)

AI is about to remake our information ecosystem and it is past time for us to prepare

May 19, 2021

You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup

It’s overrated—both financially and emotionally

Jun 28, 2023

What Happened to the Creator Economy?

The burden of missed expectations

Jun 1, 2022

The Inventor of the iPhone Has Some Thoughts

Build by Tony Fadell: A Review

Oct 2, 2024

OpenAI Launches a Document and Code Editor Integrated Into ChatGPT

Canvas is an Artifacts competitor aiming at the future of AI-human collaboration

Mar 4, 2024

Claude 3 Is The Most Human AI Yet

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

Nov 2, 2022

How Elon Wins

Twitter needs to pursue the algorithmic feed

Mar 22, 2023

How AI Changes the Media Business

Why community and social network effects will be key to winning the future

Mar 15, 2023

Technology Is Good Actually

Startups screw up sometimes, but making things cheaper is a moral necessity

Dec 20, 2022

Meditations on AI Mecca

A dispatch from a hacker conference in San Francisco

Jan 4, 2023

It Is Always Time to Build

Interest rates do not equal innovation rates

Feb 22, 2023

When Content Creation Goes to Zero

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

Oct 18, 2023

Every Software Business Has the Same Playbook

The strange contradiction at the heart of B2B SaaS

Aug 9, 2023

The Futility of Utility

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

Oct 26, 2022

Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption

A world where a billion is a drop in the bucket

Mar 12, 2023

A Dearth of Secrets, an Excess of Capital: SVB’s Explosion

We may be entering a more ruthless era in tech

Dec 20, 2023

Should You Fire This Newsletter? 2023 Edition

2024 is the year I go big

Apr 26, 2023

Death of a Flywheel

How Amazon and Berkshire got too big

May 17, 2023

Meet Your New Finance Intern: GPT-4

How AI will reshape what finance professionals do

Dec 4, 2024

The Religion of Ramp

How the fintech became one of the fastest-growing startups—ever

Feb 4, 2021

Revenue: It’s Simple, Until It Isn’t

Finally, a clear explanation of bookings, billings and revenue

Mar 1, 2023

Should I Quit and Start a Franchise?

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