Evan Armstrong is the lead writer at Every. He explores profit and power in technology in his column, Napkin Math.
Seven Years of Freedom
The tech industry needs to be honest about the trade-offs of risk
The secret to personal growth isn't in self-help books or ayahuasca trips. It's in a $1.99 pregnancy test from Target.
Plus a few things that bring me hope
Weapons are a necessary evil, not a hype-y consumer product
The Race for Revenue Share
A Book Review of The Power Law
It’s the rare business book that you should actually read
How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market
Weirder, different, and new
Maybe Elon should buy it
What is the point of F U money if you never say F U?
A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models
When building a startup gets hard, where should we turn?
What video games can teach us about building billion-dollar companies
A new distribution channel has opened
The complicated social and financial incentives at the heart of online publishing
The first full-stack shopping platform
How the fintech became one of the fastest-growing startups—ever
Why would Databricks spend $1.3B?
Where does Disney go from here?
Spotify’s No-Win Predicament
How tech is changing what it means to be an author
Why the best deals are done with no data at all