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.’

Jul 15, 2025

The Magic Minimum for AI Agents

Agents don't need to be daily habits to be billion-dollar businesses

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

Jul 9, 2020

#10 - Escaping the trough of writing sorrow

Dan and Nathan commiserate over their writing slump and strategize how to escape it. Meanwhile, Adam’s essay hits the top of Hacker News! T

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

Jun 23, 2025

o3-pro Vibe Check—A Slow, Steady Last Resort

OpenAI’s latest model trades speed for occasional brilliance—when nothing else works, it might

May 14, 2024

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

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

Oct 24, 2025

Seeing Creativity Like a Language Model

AI doesn’t have to make slop—it can help you do the best work of your life

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

Oct 3, 2020

#32 - Are we prioritizing correctly?

Dan talks with Nathan about his latest article, Intangible Returns, and they reflect on their own prioritization strategies as a company. W

Sep 9, 2020

#26 - A post-vacation catch-up

Nathan and Dan discuss Superorganizers and Bundle Digest updates and the books they read on vacation. Books mentioned: Of Mice and Men by J

Aug 23, 2024

Building an AI Media and Software Empire

The journey to a calm, profitable business in the AI age

Oct 21, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI’s New AI Browser, Atlas

It feels less like learning something new than a browser that has caught up to how we already want to work with AI

Sep 4, 2024

How to Supercharge Your Writing With AI Tools

Two pro writers talk about AI for taste, topic, craft, and audience-building

Sep 16, 2025

Introducing Monologue: Effortless Voice Dictation

Type at the speed of talk—included in your Every subscription

Dec 12, 2024

The Secret to Building Sticky AI Products

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

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

Sep 15, 2025

Vibe Check: GPT-5 Codex Can Code for 35 Minutes Straight—If You Ask Nicely

It launches today—here’s our day-zero vibe check

Jun 9, 2020

#1 - The Bundle Digest

Dan and Nathan start out discussing the concept of Talk Therapy: a place to talk about the process of building a media business as it happen

Dec 4, 2025

Opus 4.5 Collapsed Six Months of Development Work Into One Week

Welcome to prompt-native apps, where features are written in English, not code

Nov 12, 2020

#43 - The Power of Constraints

Nathan walks Dan through the ideas and strategy behind his new Divinations series, Three Shorts. How do you get from the Zone of Ignorance t

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

Jul 31, 2024

How a Top Podcaster Rides the AI Wave

Nathaniel Whittemore’s guide to navigating the information age

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

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.