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.’

Oct 26, 2023

ChatGPT Is the Best Journal I’ve Ever Used

My slow and steady progression to living out the plot of the movie 'Her'

May 27, 2022

Perfectionism: Why and How to Beat It

A Guide to Doing Great Work without Fixating on Flawlessness

Mar 31, 2024

What I Do When I Can’t Sleep

AI, insomnia, and the articulation of taste

Apr 27, 2023

AI and the Future of Programming

An interview with Replit co-founder Amjad Masad

Nov 13, 2024

Is AI Progress Hitting a Wall?

No.

Aug 5, 2022

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning

How to learn anything 98% better than average

Oct 31, 2024

Writing as a Way of Thinking

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

Nov 25, 2024

Introducing Spiral v2

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

Mar 12, 2024

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

Ben Tossell shows us the future of building businesses online

Jul 23, 2024

Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything

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

Dec 7, 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

Dec 14, 2020

Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan

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

Apr 19, 2022

How I Tamed Panic

A Comprehensive Guide to an Unfortunate Experience

Aug 19, 2022

Why You Keep Doing Productivity Systems That Don’t Work

And how to do something new

Oct 29, 2023

Kate Lee Joins Every as Editor-in-Chief

A note on the future of Every

Jan 14, 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 13, 2023

Against Explanations

AI can make progress where science has struggled

Jan 22, 2025

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

Operator (Could you help me do this task?)

Aug 12, 2025

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

Fast, reliable long-context responses—for a price

May 5, 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

May 9, 2024

ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind

AI is a lever that becomes a lens

Nov 8, 2020

Peter Boyce is a People Person

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

Sep 8, 2022

Creative Extravagance

Throw some stuff against the wall and see what sticks

Aug 22, 2023

How We Became Every

The soul in the media machine