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.’

Jan 26, 2021

How Hard Should I Push Myself?

What the science of stress tells us about peak performance

Jan 13, 2023

GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I’ve Ever Used

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

Mar 31, 2023

GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine

Reason is only as good as the information we give it

Oct 25, 2023

How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine

Shopify’s director of production engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

Oct 6, 2023

AI-assisted Decision-making

How to use ChatGPT to master the best of what other people have figured out

Jan 12, 2024

ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind

AI is a lever that becomes a lens

Jan 27, 2023

Permission to Be Excited About AI

Skepticism, curiosity, and the Current Thing

Jun 18, 2024

Introducing Spiral

A powerful prompt builder that automates 80 percent of repetitive writing, thinking, and decision-making tasks

Oct 7, 2020

Amanda Goetz Doesn’t Believe in Balance

The VP of Marketing at the Knot Talks About Blending Rather Than Balancing Work and Life

Mar 3, 2023

How to Make AI Write Like Your Favorite Author

A step-by-step guide from prompting to fine-tuning

May 12, 2023

Does GPT-4 Know Me Better Than My Girlfriend?

A dangerous question with fascinating answers

May 5, 2023

AI Is Transforming Media Forever, Here’s How

Dispatches from the frontier of technology and the written word

Dec 22, 2021

What Worked for Me in 2021

I’m constantly experimenting with tools, systems, routines, books, and supplements to try to live a better life. Experimentation is the esse

Jul 26, 2022

You Grow from Your Edges

A review of Standing at the Edge

Oct 3, 2024

OpenAI Launches a Document and Code Editor Integrated Into ChatGPT

Canvas is an Artifacts competitor aiming at the future of AI-human collaboration

Jul 14, 2023

The Optimal Level of Optimization

Lessons on goal maximization from machine learning

Apr 26, 2024

What Can Language Models Actually Do?

Part one: Language models as text compressors

Sep 22, 2023

Great Artists Steal (With LLMs)

You can only steal what you can find—and AI lets you find exactly what you need

Aug 2, 2024

The Great AI Unbundling

Why ChatGPT and Claude will spawn the next wave of startups

Sep 9, 2021

How James Clear is Writing His Next Book

Asana, Google Docs, and Meeting Readers Where they Are

Oct 27, 2023

ChatGPT Is the Best Journal I’ve Ever Used

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

Nov 1, 2024

Writing as a Way of Thinking

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

Apr 28, 2023

AI and the Future of Programming

An interview with Replit co-founder Amjad Masad

Aug 20, 2022

Why You Keep Doing Productivity Systems That Don’t Work

And how to do something new