Evan Armstrong is the lead writer at Every. He explores profit and power in technology in his column, Napkin Math.
What is the point of F U money if you never say F U?
A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models
What consumer tech and media got wrong
My AI awakening
Can AI agents make you a billionaire?
The complicated social and financial incentives at the heart of online publishing
How the fintech became one of the fastest-growing startups—ever
My quest to find Jesus Christ with a Gulfstream
My explorations in image generation
Only if buttressed with smart policy, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue in their new book, 'Abundance'
The newest wave of AI research is changing everything
Music producer Rick Rubin explores the creative process
When building a startup gets hard, where should we turn?
What happens when our computers know us better than we know ourselves?
Interest rates do not equal innovation rates
Learn how to use AI to produce the best writing of your life
Why community and social network effects will be key to winning the future
This newest funding round means this company has either a trillion-dollar outcome—or nothing at all.
Make your spreadsheets shape strategy
Content is cheaper than ever to produce. That will bring devastation—and a new wave of opportunity.
You must escape the shallow joy of more
The secret to personal growth isn't in self-help books or ayahuasca trips. It's in a $1.99 pregnancy test from Target.
Twitter needs to pursue the algorithmic feed
GE, Amazon, and the flywheel of death