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.’

Apr 25, 2025

AI Can Fix Social Media’s Original Sin

You are what you say you are—not just what you click

Oct 16, 2024

Introducing Every Studio

Our first class of entrepreneurs in residence are joining to build products—and write about it along the way

May 26, 2023

What I Learned Teaching 100 People To Code with AI

I guess I’m a programming teacher now

Jan 23, 2025

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

Operator (Could you help me do this task?)

Nov 4, 2022

Generative AIs Narrow the Taste Gap

Musings from the frontier of AI and the written word

Apr 26, 2024

What Can Language Models Actually Do?

Part one: Language models as text compressors

Mar 28, 2025

Why Generalists Own the Future

In the age of AI, it’s better to know a little about a lot than a lot about a little

Feb 18, 2025

How Language Models Work

A 100-percent jargon-free guide

Nov 6, 2021

Misunderstanding Media

The phrase “the medium is the message” predicted much of the internet era. But what does it actually mean?

Jan 19, 2023

Code for GPT-3 Journal Summarizer

Access the code samples here.

Jun 18, 2022

How to write a bestselling book with a friend (even when it’s hard)

And you both have full-time jobs

Feb 7, 2024

Exclusive Analysis of ‘How Do You Use ChatGPT?’ With Logan Kilpatrick

Plus a transcript of the latest episode

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'

Feb 28, 2022

Why You’re Not Doing Creative Work

And how to start again even if you don't have time

Oct 18, 2024

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Feb 21, 2024

Exclusive Analysis of ‘How Do You Use ChatGPT?’ With Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Plus a transcript of the latest episode

Nov 10, 2023

A Day at the Center of the AI Boom

In San Francisco, there’s one rule to live by: Layer up.

Sep 9, 2022

Creative Extravagance

Throw some stuff against the wall and see what sticks

Feb 5, 2025

Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch on What Comes After Coding

As AI writes code, developers must become better product thinkers

Nov 15, 2023

Introducing ‘How Do You Use ChatGPT?’

How the most interesting people in the world use ChatGPT to think, create, and grow

Nov 18, 2022

The End of Effective Altruism?

Success has many philosophical bedfellows; frauds have none

Dec 17, 2024

Introducing Cora: Manage Your Inbox With AI

Get delivered from email with our latest product incubation

Sep 26, 2025

Every’s Master Plan: Part II

The only subscription you need to keep you at the edge of AI

Feb 26, 2025

He Built an AI Audience Simulator. It’s the Future of Customer Research.

Prompt engineer Michael Taylor created a tool that simulates real audience feedback—without the risk