Evan Armstrong

Evan Armstrong is the lead writer at Every. He explores profit and power in technology in his column, Napkin Math.

Apr 4, 2024

How I Use ChatGPT (As a Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

Sep 8, 2022

What I Learned From Being Cancer Free

Seven Years of Freedom

Jul 11, 2024

Searching for Signal

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

Feb 10, 2022

Is YC the Monopoly It Thinks It Is?

The Pricing Power Flex

Dec 15, 2022

Should You Fire This Newsletter?

In which I analyze whether I’m good at my job

Dec 14, 2023

Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.

This new era of startups requires a founder baptized in the humanities

Jun 21, 2024

You Can’t Math Your Way to Success

Whether in art, startups, or parenting, you can only control so much

Oct 27, 2022

Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption

A world where a billion is a drop in the bucket

Mar 30, 2022

Twitter’s Probably Screwed

The Rugged Landscape of Digital Advertising

Jan 6, 2022

What the hell is going on with Lambda School?

The complicated business of selling social good

Oct 7, 2021

The End of Software, Again

The impending doom of horizontal SaaS

Dec 16, 2021

The primary trends I’m investing in next year

Inflation, web3, embedded fintech, investing in people, and the newsletter winter that is coming

Nov 21, 2023

The Case Against Sam Altman

The board is bad at their job, but they may not be crazy

Jul 2, 2021

In Practice: My Newest Beta Product

Come take an early peak at the future

Dec 7, 2023

The Impossibility of Being Charlie

RIP to nerd Jesus

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

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

Jun 27, 2023

Shopping for AI Shovels: The MosaicML Acquisition

Why would Databricks spend $1.3B?

Jun 2, 2022

The Inventor of the iPhone Has Some Thoughts

Build by Tony Fadell: A Review

Sep 19, 2024

Live Fuller, Not Bigger

You must escape the shallow joy of more

Oct 14, 2021

Who is Making Money in Space?

Exploring the SPAC Frontier

May 15, 2024

Google Goes All In on AI

The company has every possible advantage, but can they use it?

May 19, 2022

How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

Jun 6, 2023

The Bugman Cometh

My sick, unexplainable desire to buy a face computer