Evan Armstrong

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

Oct 6, 2022

The Face That AI Built

My explorations in image generation

Oct 24, 2024

How to Win Arguments and Manipulate Managers

Make your spreadsheets shape strategy

Jun 11, 2024

Apple’s AI Evolution: Built-in AI, Supercharged Siri, and Ecosystem Lock-in

Maybe the new world is the same as the old

Jul 13, 2023

OpenAI’s Code Interpreter Is About to Remake Finance

Get in, loser—we’re disrupting Oracle

Aug 13, 2024

The Addiction Economy

Addicted, overwhelmed, oversubscribed: How technology hooked the world

Jan 24, 2025

Why Is Jensen Huang $120 Billion Richer Than You?

Hint: Nvidia’s success is based on much more than chips

Sep 12, 2024

The Button Problem of AI

What’s the real reason AI hasn’t yet delivered on its hype?

Jun 23, 2022

Facebook’s Capitulation

Abandoning a Trillion Dollar Advantage

Jun 21, 2024

You Can’t Math Your Way to Success

Whether in art, startups, or parenting, you can only control so much

Mar 24, 2022

Planet of the Billion Dollar Bored Apes

Is Bored Ape Yacht Club a Decentralized Disney?

Apr 21, 2022

Microsoft should buy Netflix

Netflix and Bill

Oct 3, 2024

OpenAI Launches a Document and Code Editor Integrated Into ChatGPT

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

Sep 5, 2024

Vibes-based Search

The next big disruption in software is here, and it understands what you’re looking for better than you do

Mar 23, 2022

BIG announcement incoming

I'm going full time on Napkin Math

Feb 13, 2025

Does OpenAI’s Deep Research Put Me Out of a Job?

An investigation into a Sam Altman tweet

Aug 16, 2024

Feasting at the Trough of AI Slop

AI imagery is more popular, more powerful, and less harmful than you think

Aug 12, 2022

A Tale Of Two Acquisitions

The Unity Conundrum

May 15, 2024

Google Goes All In on AI

The company has every possible advantage, but can they use it?

Feb 6, 2025

The Vatican Has Some Thoughts on AI

In a new statement, the Catholic Church expounds on the nature of human versus machine intelligence, and its views on the utility of AI

Apr 23, 2024

Some Things I Know (And Some Things I Don’t)

What have I learned from two years of writing?

Mar 6, 2025

AI Has Learned How to Capture Our Emotional Metadata

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

Apr 3, 2024

The One-person Billion-dollar Company

Can AI agents make you a billionaire?

Mar 28, 2024

What Are AI Agents—And Who Profits From Them?

The newest wave of AI research is changing everything

Oct 7, 2021

The End of Software, Again

The impending doom of horizontal SaaS