Dan Shipper

Dan Shipper is the CEO and cofounder of Every. Every week he explores the frontiers of AI in his column, Chain of Thought, and on his podcast, ‘AI & I.’

Aug 7, 2020

#18 - How do we decide what to publish?

Nathan and Dan discuss how they test for what kind of content resonates. P.S. — Here’s the essay on Oatly’s marketing by Nat Eliason just p

Nov 2, 2020

#41 - A Bad Situation…Compounded

Special Emergency Pod! We invited our friend Mario Gabriele on the show to talk about his experience this week publicly staring down a $6 b

Jul 1, 2020

#8 - The model was actually right!

Four months ago, when we only had a couple hundred paying subscribers, Adam Keesling made a financial model that predicted we’d have 1,462 c

Dec 19, 2020

#51 - How content has network effects

Nathan takes Dan behind his latest Divinations essay, “Why Content is King,” from the writing process—which included drafting the piece in l

Sep 13, 2020

High-Output Project Management in Notion

A recording, a template, and a course discount

Aug 14, 2020

#20 - Couples therapy ft. executive coach Brian Wang

Brian Wang joins Nathan and Dan on a special episode that’s longer than usual! Brian’s an executive coach who helps founders with the emoti

Feb 2, 2024

Quick Hits: New AI Features From Arc and ChatGPT

The future arrived faster than I expected

Dec 10, 2020

#48 - Consumable Software

Nathan loops Dan in on something he thought was a problem: falling in and out of love with different software too quickly. Turns out, it’s m

Aug 12, 2020

#19 - What should we do with our weekly digest?

Nathan and Dan talk through the experiments they’ve run with the weekly Sunday digests and what they’re going to try next. Here’s the link t

Oct 24, 2020

#38 - RIP Quibi

Dan and Nathan eulogize Quibi – and extend some sympathy to anyone who has a big idea. How did you feel about this episode? Amazing • Good 

Dec 24, 2020

#52 - Inside The Prediction Game, with Andre Plaut

Dan and Nathan welcome Andre Plaut, creator of The Prediction Game—a competition to predict the events of the coming year for a tantalizing

Oct 21, 2020

#37 - Better Business Writing

What began as a weekly “Great Writing” meeting is now the newest member of the bundle! Dan and Nathan reflect on how their joint desire to g

May 14, 2024

GPT-4o and OpenAI’s Race to Win Consumers

Decoding what the AI leader’s latest release means for the future

Mar 5, 2025

You Don’t Need More Money—Just A Better AI Strategy

Investor Mike Maples on how you can compete with OpenAI

Sep 11, 2020

#27 - How can we give the Bundle Digest its own identity?

Nathan interviews Dan about the latest Bundle Digest experiment and the overall strategy to make it into its own newsletter. How did you fe

Dec 12, 2024

The Secret to Building Sticky AI Products

Granola cofounder and CEO Chris Pedregal on how to make winning product decisions

Nov 27, 2024

How We Incubate and Launch New Products With AI

What happens when you mix media, software, and AI—and how it’s going so far

Jan 24, 2024

Economist Tyler Cowen on How ChatGPT Is Changing Your Job

How a deep thinker uses AI to think, read, travel—and navigate the future of work

Jun 9, 2025

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Oct 17, 2020

#36 - What can businesses learn from Phytoplankton?

After reflecting on their expectations for the (extremely successful) Almanack launch, Nathan takes Dan through his new investigation of the

Oct 2, 2024

A Day at the Center of the AI Boom (2023)

In San Francisco, there’s one rule to live by: Layer up.

Aug 5, 2019

Why Ceasar Bautista Wrote His Own Personal Encyclopedia

Since 2013, Ceasar Bautista has been writing his own personal encyclopedia.Let me repeat that: for the last 6 years, he has been writing an

Jul 3, 2020

#9 - Tech vs Media hits a new low

Why is there so much animosity between the tech industry and journalists? Dan and Nathan try to sort through the muck.

Dec 17, 2020

#50 - Substack Reader is here! Is it good?

Dan and Nathan address the news that’s been dominating the Everything Slack all day: Substack’s long-awaited reader, which collects your new