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.’

Jul 7, 2025

Toward a Definition of AGI

AGI is intelligence too valuable to shut off

Sep 24, 2020

The Double Life of Productivity’s Most Famous Doctor

YouTuber Ali Abdaal shares how he makes the productivity videos that have netted him 1M subscribers

Nov 8, 2024

How Notion Cofounder Simon Last Builds AI for Millions of Users

The blueprint for AI systems that are reliable at scale

Jul 15, 2025

The Magic Minimum for AI Agents

Agents don't need to be daily habits to be billion-dollar businesses

Aug 21, 2024

The Mantra of This AI Age: Don’t Repeat Yourself

AI won't kill your job. But it will steal your repetitive tasks.

Feb 2, 2024

Quick Hits: New AI Features From Arc and ChatGPT

The future arrived faster than I expected

Mar 18, 2021

How to see the future

An MIT PhD reveals his process for researching the future of programming

Nov 24, 2025

Vibe Check: Opus 4.5 Is the Coding Model We’ve Been Waiting For

But it’s not perfect—it failed our editing test

Sep 2, 2020

#25 - Behind the scenes of our first ad deal

Nathan and Dan talk to Brian McCullough, host of the Techmeme Ride Home podcast, about how the ad deal in last week’s Bundle Digest came abo

May 15, 2024

Kevin Roose Has 18 New Best Friends—And They’re All AIs

The host of NYT's ‘Hard Fork’ podcast shows me how they help him with everything from parenting advice to ‘fit’ checks

Oct 21, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI’s New AI Browser, Atlas

It feels less like learning something new than a browser that has caught up to how we already want to work with AI

Nov 26, 2020

#46 - Is Substack really milquetoast?

Dan and Nathan discuss one of many recent takes on Substack, and try to offer a counterpoint to the idea that newsletter writers need to mak

Jun 9, 2025

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Dec 11, 2025

Compound Engineering: How Every Codes With Agents

A four-step engineering process for software teams that don’t write code

Aug 15, 2024

Introducing Sparkle

Organize your files automatically—with AI

Feb 9, 2024

Should You Buy a Vision Pro? A Guide

How much would you pay for a dream come true?

Oct 29, 2021

How David Perell writes an essay

Harnessing the power of surprise to build writing that spreads

Mar 3, 2023

Live Workshop: Fine Tuning AI on Your Favorite Writer’s Voice

Learn to get AI to write like your favorite writer, from start to finish

Dec 20, 2024

Every 2024: Our Year by the Numbers

Highlights of what we published and shipped over the past 12 months

Dec 12, 2020

#49 - On Stress: Dan would like to speak with the manager

After giving Nathan proper credit for getting him to finally listen to—and enjoy—podcasts, Dan takes a pressing question from a recent one t

Jan 30, 2024

How David Perell Uses ChatGPT as a Creative Partner

Using AI for self-discovery and making great work

Jan 18, 2024

How David Perell Uses ChatGPT to Write for Millions

Watch the writer, educator, and podcaster use AI to surface anecdotes, read old books, and understand himself

Sep 15, 2025

Vibe Check: GPT-5 Codex Can Code for 35 Minutes Straight—If You Ask Nicely

It launches today—here’s our day-zero vibe check

Oct 6, 2020

Amanda Goetz Doesn’t Believe in Balance

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