Evan Armstrong

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

Apr 7, 2022

The Futility of Utility

A personal essay

Sep 28, 2022

Why Culture Eats Strategy

The Search For the Winning Formula

Oct 4, 2023

Automate the Simple Stuff With Stupid Tools

This is the dumbest AI will ever be—and it’s still magic

Dec 15, 2021

The primary trends I’m investing in next year

Inflation, web3, embedded fintech, investing in people, and the newsletter winter that is coming

Jul 26, 2023

Snap’s Probably Screwed (Again)

Maybe Elon should buy it

Nov 30, 2022

The House of the Bloody Mouse

Where does Disney go from here?

Sep 13, 2023

Defense Tech Shouldn’t Be Sexy

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

Sep 11, 2024

The Button Problem of AI

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

Apr 4, 2022

Twitter’s Shot at Becoming a Meme Stock

It’s Musk's world and we’re just tweeting in it

May 3, 2023

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

Plus a few things that bring me hope

Jan 31, 2024

Crypto’s Prophet Speaks

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

Jul 20, 2022

Crypto Has A Use Case

How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market

Apr 20, 2022

Microsoft should buy Netflix

Netflix and Bill

Mar 6, 2024

Ads in the Age of AI

Weirder, different, and new

Sep 7, 2022

What I Learned From Being Cancer Free

Seven Years of Freedom

Aug 12, 2024

The Addiction Economy

Addicted, overwhelmed, oversubscribed: How technology hooked the world

Feb 24, 2022

Joe Rogan: The Platform-Proof Creator

Spotify’s No-Win Predicament

May 18, 2022

How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

Mar 9, 2022

How To Get Leverage On Your Ideas

The Power Output Equation

Jun 21, 2023

AI Can Construct a Trading Strategy Now

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

Mar 26, 2024

How to Make Millions on Discord

A new distribution channel has opened

Mar 21, 2024

Why Polarity Pays

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

Sep 24, 2024

The One-person Billion-dollar Company

Can AI agents make you a billionaire?

Jun 22, 2022

Are We Really Addicted?

An interview with Nir Eyal