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The Leverage
Where you can find my analysis going forward| every.to
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math ChatpGPT/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- Unprecedented doesn’t quite cut it. Unhinged is directionally accurate, but still a little casual. There has never, ever been a company like OpenAI: in growth and, yes, hubris. This week’s funding announcement—$40 billion at a $300 billion post-money valuation—is the largest ever capital raise by a private company. But what makes San Francisco’s ...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math ChatGPT/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- The fundamental promise of AI is that it will dramatically reduce the cost of making any product that has a digital component. Writers such as myself love to publicly wring our hands about how LLMs’ rapidly improving writing ability may soon put us out of a job. In a satisfyingly ironic twist of fate, though, it’s the field of software engineering th...|
Only if buttressed with smart policy, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue in their new book, 'Abundance'| every.to
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- Over the last few years, I’ve frequently wished for dumber colleagues. Each of my fellow laborers on the S.S. Every is a kind, intelligent spirit, devoted to their craft. They work incredibly hard.But wouldn’t it be better if it didn’t take a team of exclusively smart people to keep the ship afloat? Every is successful, but it's taken us working hard e...|
What happens when our computers know us better than we know ourselves?| every.to
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- There’s something about playing Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 that reminds me of management consulting. The strategy game was released on February 11 and has been consuming my life ever since. If you are unbaptized in the waters of Civ, a quick explanation: The game is part of the 4X genre, which requires you to “explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate” ...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Quick heads up: There are only four more days to register for my course, How to Write With AI. The four-week cohort-based class runs from February 13 through March 6 and includes: 4 live lectures and hands-on workshops A writing group overseen by an Every-trained editor Interviews with successful internet writers, including Every CEO and cofounder Dan Shipper Demos of cutting-edge products including Deep Research, Operator, and others...|
What OpenAI’s Operator tells us about what comes next in artificial intelligence| every.to
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Quick heads up: Today is the last day of the early bird discount for my course, How to Write With AI. The four-week cohort-based class runs from February 13 through March 6 and includes: 4 live lectures and hands-on workshops A writing group overseen by an Every-trained editor Interviews with successful internet writers, including Every CEO and cofounder Dan Shipper 30 days of quick writing exercises Your own customized LLM prompt for...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.In a company, being right isn't enough—you need to know how to sell your ideas, especially to those at the top. Evan Armstrong learned this lesson the hard way. This piece from last fall chronicles his evolution from frustrated analyst to successful persuader, using a real-world example from Every. Evan breaks down his approach into three strategies: weaving compelling narratives, understanding the psychology of decision-makers, and...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- When my wife handed me a pregnancy test, a faintly pink cross indicating a positive result, I mostly felt one thing: fear. The kid was planned for, and our marriage was the best it had ever been. By every metric, this was an ideal time for us to grow our family. Still, holding that test, I felt more terrified than elated.To me, that little plastic stick—on...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Can a single person use AI to build a billion-dollar company? That’s the question Evan Armstrong posed in February, responding to a prognostication by OpenAI’s Sam Altman. With OpenAI’s Dev Day set for October 1 and Every taking a quarterly Think Week to step back and evaluate the tech landscape, we felt it was a perfect time to republish Evan’s look-ahead from earlier this year.—Kate Lee Was this newsletter forwarded to you...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Each quarter, Every tells its writers to put down their pencils, stop scribbling, and think. We call these our Think Weeks, and they’re phenomenal opportunities to take a break from the daily hustle, step back, and look at the evolving tech and business landscape. Ahead of OpenAI’s DevDay taking place on October 1, we thought this was a perfect time to republish some of our sharpest writing on ChatGPT. First up, Evan Armstrong’s...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Ambition is a tricky beast. It drives us to achieve great things, but can also leave us feeling perpetually unsatisfied. Recently I’ve been coming back to this piece I wrote last year about finding joy in life's simple moments as a powerful antidote to our culture's obsession with "bigger and better.” —Evan Armstrong Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- Lately, I’ve had a new morning rout...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Before our regular programming, I wanted to tell you I am teaching a course on How to Write With AI. It’ll show you how you can use AI tools to create higher quality writing significantly faster. Registration closes on September 15, so act quickly to secure your spot. Register for How to Write With AI --- When GPT-4 came out 548 days ago, the world was supposed to change. Our computers would get an IQ upgrade, ushering in an age of ...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- The problem with the internet is that we have too much and can find too damn little. In our palms, we hold the total sum of human knowledge, but most of the time, that isn’t enough to be genuinely useful. Due to a combination of SEO-optimized garbage and the technical challenge of organizing the world’s information, surfacing the answers we’re looking ...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley partly because the stories we tell about it tend to come true. The whiz kid really can beat the giant. Mark Zuckerberg actually did kill MySpace. Anyone under employee count 250 at Google is probably flying private. This, by and large, has been the case in Silicon Valley for over a decade. The story we tell ourselves is that dis...|
by Evan Armstrong in Napkin Math DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- Reckoning with the legacy of Bill Gates in 2024 requires engaging in a gut-churning calculation: Do his multiple dinner meetings and single late-night hangout with Jeffrey Epstein, combined with a flight on the convicted sex offender’s plane, discount the tens of millions of lives he has impacted through his philanthropic work? Yes, this math is reductive. An...|
AI imagery is more popular, more powerful, and less harmful than you think| every.to
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What our digital companions reveal about human loneliness| every.to
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Zuckerberg’s open-source gambit could burst the AI hype—or save it| every.to
Half a century removed from its glory days, the Hollywood giant has a new rescue plan| every.to
The newest wave of AI research is changing everything| every.to
Software that drives hardware adoption is rarer than you think| every.to
The tech industry needs to be honest about the trade-offs of risk| every.to
Get in loser, we’re disrupting Oracle| every.to
If you want to win, you gotta spike| every.to
How to think about investing in a startup versus a public company| every.to
A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models| every.to
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Startups screw up sometimes, but making things cheaper is a moral necessity| every.to
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