Evan Armstrong

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

Apr 22, 2025

The Leverage

Where you can find my analysis going forward

Apr 10, 2025

How to Write Online

It’s less about capturing attention, and more about deserving it

Apr 2, 2025

OpenAI Is a Once-in-a-lifetime Startup

This newest funding round means this company has either a trillion-dollar outcome—or nothing at all.

Mar 27, 2025

Analyzing the Fastest-Growing Software Category I’ve Ever Seen

Who wins in AI coding—and who loses?

Mar 20, 2025

Can the Startup Mindset Fix America?

Only if buttressed with smart policy, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue in their new book, 'Abundance'

Mar 13, 2025

AI Is Breaking Media. Here’s How Publishers Can Survive.

Content is cheaper than ever to produce. That will bring devastation—and a new wave of opportunity.

Mar 6, 2025

AI Has Learned How to Capture Our Emotional Metadata

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

Feb 28, 2025

Playing ‘Civilization 7’ Is Like Being a Ruthless Corporate Consultant

Let’s talk about the tech world’s relationship with video games

Feb 13, 2025

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

An investigation into a Sam Altman tweet

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

Jan 30, 2025

Who Wins the AI Agent Battle?

What OpenAI’s Operator tells us about what comes next in artificial intelligence

Jan 28, 2025

What Actually Matters (And What Doesn’t) For DeepSeek

Allow us to explain why your 401k is down

Jan 24, 2025

Why Is Jensen Huang $120 Billion Richer Than You?

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

Jan 16, 2025

God Is in the Bubbles

The politics of progress has a new manual

Jan 9, 2025

More Output, Less Effort

8 pieces of technology that have dramatically improved my life

Dec 5, 2024

The Religion of Ramp

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

Oct 24, 2024

How to Win Arguments and Manipulate Managers

Make your spreadsheets shape strategy

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

Oct 1, 2024

Dad Mode

The secret to personal growth isn't in self-help books or ayahuasca trips. It's in a $1.99 pregnancy test from Target.

Sep 24, 2024

The One-person Billion-dollar Company

Can AI agents make you a billionaire?

Sep 23, 2024

What Are AI Agents—And Who Profits From Them?

The newest wave of AI research is changing everything

Sep 19, 2024

Live Fuller, Not Bigger

You must escape the shallow joy of more

Sep 12, 2024

The Button Problem of AI

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

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