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.’

Sep 24, 2022

Fear, Courage, and Willingness

How to walk the path to fearlessness

May 28, 2022

Perfectionism: Why and How to Beat It

A Guide to Doing Great Work without Fixating on Flawlessness

Oct 11, 2024

Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines

AI is turning science into engineering—with unprecedented changes for how we see the world

Apr 1, 2024

What I Do When I Can’t Sleep

AI, insomnia, and the articulation of taste

Nov 1, 2024

Writing as a Way of Thinking

Why managers might offer our best clue about AI’s impact on writing

Nov 26, 2024

Introducing Spiral v2

A totally redesigned and more powerful version of our tool to help you automate your repetitive creative work

Nov 14, 2024

Is AI Progress Hitting a Wall?

No.

Jul 24, 2024

Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything

How the star podcaster uses AI tools to compound his own intelligence

Mar 13, 2024

How to Run a Profitable One-person Internet Business Using AI

Ben Tossell shows us the future of building businesses online

Dec 8, 2023

Will Google’s Bard Be a Destination Chatbot?

Why it could succeed or fail—and what that means for the future of AI chatbots

Aug 6, 2022

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning

How to learn anything 98% better than average

Dec 15, 2020

Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan

The bestselling novelist shares his recipe for taking notes that spark novels.

Apr 20, 2022

How I Tamed Panic

A Comprehensive Guide to an Unfortunate Experience

Aug 20, 2022

Why You Keep Doing Productivity Systems That Don’t Work

And how to do something new

Oct 30, 2023

Kate Lee Joins Every as Editor-in-Chief

A note on the future of Every

Jan 15, 2022

Beware of Pet Explanations

A few weeks ago, I was out shopping in SoHo when I was gripped by the sensation that everything was about to go horribly wrong. I am not a s

Apr 14, 2023

Against Explanations

AI can make progress where science has struggled

May 6, 2021

The Truth About Mental Models with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street’s founder talks about learning loops, how to read, and how to avoid bullshit

Nov 9, 2020

Peter Boyce is a People Person

How a top venture capitalist uses Airtable to build a Personal CRM

Aug 12, 2025

Vibe Check: Claude Sonnet 4 Now Has a 1-million Token Context Window

Fast, reliable long-context responses—for a price

Jan 23, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Agent—Here’s What We Found

Operator (Could you help me do this task?)

May 10, 2024

ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind

AI is a lever that becomes a lens

Aug 23, 2023

How We Became Every

The soul in the media machine

Sep 9, 2022

Creative Extravagance

Throw some stuff against the wall and see what sticks