Evan Armstrong

Evan Armstrong was a lead writer at Every who explored profit and power in technology in Napkin Math.

Sep 28, 2022

Why Culture Eats Strategy

The Search For the Winning Formula

Dec 1, 2022

The House of the Bloody Mouse

Where does Disney go from here?

Apr 8, 2022

The Futility of Utility

A personal essay

Oct 4, 2023

Automate the Simple Stuff With Stupid Tools

This is the dumbest AI will ever be—and it’s still magic

Jul 26, 2023

Snap’s Probably Screwed (Again)

Maybe Elon should buy it

Dec 15, 2021

The primary trends I’m investing in next year

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

Sep 13, 2023

Defense Tech Shouldn’t Be Sexy

Weapons are a necessary evil, not a hype-y consumer product

Jul 21, 2022

Crypto Has A Use Case

How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market

Sep 11, 2024

The Button Problem of AI

What’s the real reason AI hasn’t yet delivered on its hype?

Apr 5, 2022

Twitter’s Shot at Becoming a Meme Stock

It’s Musk's world and we’re just tweeting in it

Apr 21, 2022

Microsoft should buy Netflix

Netflix and Bill

Feb 1, 2024

Crypto’s Prophet Speaks

A16z’s Chris Dixon hasn’t abandoned the faith with his new book, 'Read Write Own'

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

Sep 8, 2022

What I Learned From Being Cancer Free

Seven Years of Freedom

May 19, 2022

How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

Jun 22, 2022

Are We Really Addicted?

An interview with Nir Eyal

Mar 7, 2024

Ads in the Age of AI

Weirder, different, and new

Aug 13, 2024

The Addiction Economy

Addicted, overwhelmed, oversubscribed: How technology hooked the world

Jul 19, 2023

Of Course You Can Beat the Market

Free your mind from the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Sep 23, 2024

The One-person Billion-dollar Company

Can AI agents make you a billionaire?

Mar 10, 2022

How To Get Leverage On Your Ideas

The Power Output Equation

Feb 25, 2022

Joe Rogan: The Platform-Proof Creator

Spotify’s No-Win Predicament

Jun 22, 2023

AI Can Construct a Trading Strategy Now

And it means there are big changes ahead for what software can do

Mar 21, 2024

Why Polarity Pays

The complicated social and financial incentives at the heart of online publishing