Evan Armstrong

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

Jan 24, 2025

Why Is Jensen Huang $120 Billion Richer Than You?

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

Oct 11, 2023

Falling Out of Love With Michael Lewis

The complicated demands of business writing

Jul 28, 2022

Snapchat’s Probably Screwed

Apple's ATT Fallout Continues

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

Aug 16, 2024

Feasting at the Trough of AI Slop

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

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

Oct 26, 2023

Live Fuller, Not Bigger

You must escape the shallow joy of more

Mar 24, 2022

Planet of the Billion Dollar Bored Apes

Is Bored Ape Yacht Club a Decentralized Disney?

Mar 5, 2024

Claude 3 Is The Most Human AI Yet

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

Sep 7, 2023

You Need to Know What You Are Betting On

How to think about investing in a startup versus a public company

Feb 13, 2025

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

An investigation into a Sam Altman tweet

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

Jan 26, 2023

How Technology Giants Die

GE, Amazon, and the flywheel of death

Aug 8, 2024

The Horny Truth About AI Chatbots

What our digital companions reveal about human loneliness

Oct 27, 2022

Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption

A world where a billion is a drop in the bucket

Jan 6, 2022

What the hell is going on with Lambda School?

The complicated business of selling social good

Jun 16, 2022

Selective Optimism

People who promise high returns forever are liars

Aug 12, 2022

A Tale Of Two Acquisitions

The Unity Conundrum

Oct 24, 2024

How to Win Arguments and Manipulate Managers

Make your spreadsheets shape strategy

Jun 15, 2023

OpenAI’s Code Interpreter Is About to Remake Finance

Get in loser, we’re disrupting Oracle

Apr 22, 2025

The Leverage

Where you can find my analysis going forward

Sep 12, 2024

The Button Problem of AI

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

Feb 23, 2023

When Content Creation Goes to Zero

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

Jul 13, 2023

OpenAI’s Code Interpreter Is About to Remake Finance

Get in, loser—we’re disrupting Oracle