Evan Armstrong

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

Nov 9, 2023

We Should All Want to Be Mitt Romney

What is the point of F U money if you never say F U?

Sep 30, 2021

NFT Projects are just MLMs for Tech Elites

A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models

May 11, 2023

Why Are Republicans Better at Making Money on the Internet?

What consumer tech and media got wrong

Apr 4, 2024

How I Use ChatGPT (As a Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

Feb 8, 2024

The One-person Billion-dollar Company

Can AI agents make you a billionaire?

Mar 21, 2024

Why Polarity Pays

The complicated social and financial incentives at the heart of online publishing

Dec 5, 2024

The Religion of Ramp

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

Apr 11, 2024

Can the Truly Moral Billionaire Please Stand Up?

My quest to find Jesus Christ with a Gulfstream

Oct 6, 2022

The Face That AI Built

My explorations in image generation

Mar 20, 2025

Can the Startup Mindset Fix America?

Only if buttressed with smart policy, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue in their new book, 'Abundance'

Sep 23, 2024

What Are AI Agents—And Who Profits From Them?

The newest wave of AI research is changing everything

Feb 9, 2023

The Meditations of Vinyl Jesus

Music producer Rick Rubin explores the creative process

Jul 11, 2024

Searching for Signal

When building a startup gets hard, where should we turn?

Mar 6, 2025

AI Has Learned How to Capture Our Emotional Metadata

What happens when our computers know us better than we know ourselves?

Jan 5, 2023

It Is Always Time to Build

Interest rates do not equal innovation rates

Aug 20, 2024

How to Write With AI: Register Now

Learn how to use AI to produce the best writing of your life

Mar 23, 2023

How AI Changes the Media Business

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

Apr 2, 2025

OpenAI Is a Once-in-a-lifetime Startup

This newest funding round means this company has either a trillion-dollar outcome—or nothing at all.

Oct 24, 2024

How to Win Arguments and Manipulate Managers

Make your spreadsheets shape strategy

Mar 13, 2025

AI Is Breaking Media. Here’s How Publishers Can Survive.

Content is cheaper than ever to produce. That will bring devastation—and a new wave of opportunity.

Sep 19, 2024

Live Fuller, Not Bigger

You must escape the shallow joy of more

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.

Nov 3, 2022

How Elon Wins

Twitter needs to pursue the algorithmic feed

Jan 26, 2023

How Technology Giants Die

GE, Amazon, and the flywheel of death