Evan Armstrong

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

May 11, 2023

Why Are Republicans Better at Making Money on the Internet?

What consumer tech and media got wrong

Feb 1, 2024

Crypto’s Prophet Speaks

A16z’s Chris Dixon hasn’t abandoned the faith with his new book, 'Read Write Own'

Feb 15, 2024

Autonomous Vehicles Have a Problem of Narrative

The tech industry needs to be honest about the trade-offs of risk

Jun 22, 2023

AI Can Construct a Trading Strategy Now

And it means there are big changes ahead for what software can do

Sep 22, 2022

The AI Writer

How tech is changing what it means to be an author

Dec 5, 2024

The Religion of Ramp

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

Apr 8, 2022

The Futility of Utility

A personal essay

Aug 24, 2023

A TikTok Competitor Is About to IPO—And It’s Deeply Suspicious

Triller's S1 raises questions about its numbers

Sep 8, 2022

What I Learned From Being Cancer Free

Seven Years of Freedom

Dec 1, 2022

The House of the Bloody Mouse

Where does Disney go from here?

Sep 14, 2023

Defense Tech Shouldn’t Be Sexy

Weapons are a necessary evil, not a hype-y consumer product

May 19, 2022

How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

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?

Mar 26, 2024

How to Make Millions on Discord

A new distribution channel has opened

Jul 21, 2022

Crypto Has A Use Case

How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market

Feb 6, 2024

Profit, Power, and the Vision Pro

Will Apple’s new headset change everything?

Oct 6, 2022

The Face That AI Built

My explorations in image generation

Sep 30, 2021

NFT Projects are just MLMs for Tech Elites

A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models

May 4, 2023

7 Reasons Media Is a No-Good, Horrible, Rotten Business That I Love Anyways

Plus a few things that bring me hope

Sep 19, 2024

Live Fuller, Not Bigger

You must escape the shallow joy of more

Jul 18, 2024

A New Book of the Startup Bible

It’s the rare business book that you should actually read

Jul 11, 2024

Searching for Signal

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

Dec 1, 2021

Investing on Instinct

Why the best deals are done with no data at all

Jul 20, 2023

Of Course You Can Beat the Market

Free your mind from the Efficient Market Hypothesis