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.’

Nov 3, 2023

AI Chatbot Course Sneak-Peak

Early-bird pricing for How to Build an AI Chatbot ends November 6

Feb 28, 2024

How a Hollywood Director Uses AI to Make Movies

Dave Clark shows us the future of AI filmmaking

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

Nov 13, 2020

#44 - What Kind of Nerd Are You?

After reading Dan’s Superorganizers profile on people person Peter Boyce, Nathan wonders why his hands-on approach to social and business ca

Jan 24, 2024

Economist Tyler Cowen on How ChatGPT Is Changing Your Job

How a deep thinker uses AI to think, read, travel—and navigate the future of work

Feb 24, 2021

Who Shaan Puri is Becoming

The co-host of the My First Million Podcast reveals his tools for growing into a better version of himself

Oct 2, 2024

A Day at the Center of the AI Boom (2023)

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

Oct 7, 2025

Smuggled Intelligence

Why AI progress is real and most jobs are safe

Dec 20, 2024

Every 2024: Our Year by the Numbers

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

Jun 9, 2025

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Dec 19, 2019

The Man Who Reads 1,000 Articles a Day

How Robert Cottrell finds the absolute best writing on the web

Dec 3, 2020

#47 - What founders can learn from Slack’s story

Reacting to the news of Slack’s purchase by Salesforce, Nathan gets into the different opportunities in hardware vs. software and Dan goes d

Jul 1, 2020

#8 - The model was actually right!

Four months ago, when we only had a couple hundred paying subscribers, Adam Keesling made a financial model that predicted we’d have 1,462 c

Jul 7, 2025

Toward a Definition of AGI

AGI is intelligence too valuable to shut off

Aug 7, 2020

#18 - How do we decide what to publish?

Nathan and Dan discuss how they test for what kind of content resonates. P.S. — Here’s the essay on Oatly’s marketing by Nat Eliason just p

Jul 24, 2020

#15 - Maker weeks & feedback loops

Two things today: First, a bit of follow-up from last episode. We’re alternating weeks where one of us is in “maker mode” and the other is i

Oct 3, 2021

NFTs are MLMs, How to Pick Your Initial Market, and More

Everything we published this week

Feb 12, 2023

Bonus: Chatbot Sample Code and Metrics Updates

For paying subscribers only

Oct 7, 2020

#33 - How to use Spatial Organizing

Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin

Jul 17, 2020

#13 - Disruption and its discontents

Dan interviews Nathan about his forthcoming series of Divinations essays that explore critiques of the traditional theory of disruption. In

Dec 10, 2020

#48 - Consumable Software

Nathan loops Dan in on something he thought was a problem: falling in and out of love with different software too quickly. Turns out, it’s m

Sep 11, 2020

#27 - How can we give the Bundle Digest its own identity?

Nathan interviews Dan about the latest Bundle Digest experiment and the overall strategy to make it into its own newsletter. How did you fe

Oct 23, 2024

Building AI That Builds Itself

Untapped Capital's Yohei Nakajima on the present and future of AI tooling

Oct 19, 2020

Action Item: Playing Offense, The 10-10-10 Test, and Blending

Amanda Goetz, VP of Marketing at The Knot, shares her routines for managing a day job, a startup, and three kids.