Evan Armstrong

Evan Armstrong was a lead writer at Every who explored profit and power in technology in Napkin Math.

Jul 11, 2024

Searching for Signal

When building a startup gets hard, where should we turn?

Aug 8, 2024

The Horny Truth About AI Chatbots

What our digital companions reveal about human loneliness

Sep 7, 2023

You Need to Know What You Are Betting On

How to think about investing in a startup versus a public company

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.

May 25, 2023

Dying Whales and Dying Billionaires

A note about power

Jan 25, 2024

The Zone of Deployment

How can you know when to invest?

Mar 5, 2024

Claude 3 Is The Most Human AI Yet

But that doesn’t mean it's going to beat ChatGPT

May 4, 2023

7 Reasons Media Is a No-Good, Horrible, Rotten Business That I Love Anyways

Plus a few things that bring me hope

Jan 27, 2022

Will Tokens Replace Equity?

The Weird Future Ahead

Sep 29, 2022

Why Culture Eats Strategy

The Search For the Winning Formula

Mar 28, 2024

What Are AI Agents—And Who Profits From Them?

The newest wave of AI research is changing everything

Sep 23, 2021

Toast—a Vision of Software’s Future

Hints to why their shares popped 60% in their first day

Feb 29, 2024

Reddit: The Internet’s Bellwether

Is AI training a sustainable business model for the future?

Sep 2, 2021

Content Moderation Double-Bind Theory

The market failures damning content to ever increasing sensationalism

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

Feb 9, 2023

The Meditations of Vinyl Jesus

Music producer Rick Rubin explores the creative process

Dec 5, 2024

The Religion of Ramp

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

Mar 30, 2022

Twitter’s Probably Screwed

The Rugged Landscape of Digital Advertising

Apr 4, 2024

How I Use ChatGPT (As a Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

Feb 13, 2025

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

An investigation into a Sam Altman tweet

Aug 27, 2024

Benevolent Billionaire or Despot—Or Both?

A new book on Bill Gates asks: How do you measure a billionaire’s net impact on the world?

Aug 17, 2023

The Internet Is Still Early

Neither hellscape nor utopia—the internet makes society anew

Jan 26, 2023

How Technology Giants Die

GE, Amazon, and the flywheel of death

Jun 3, 2021

Product-Led Growth’s Failure

How a Scrappy Utah Software Company Ignored Every Silicon Valley Heuristic and Won Anyway