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1. dan shipper · every-people

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2. nathan baschez · every-people

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3. kate lee · every-people

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4. brandon gell · every-people

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5. evan armstrong · every-people

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6. kieran klaassen · every-people

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7. naveen naidu · every-people

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8. danny aziz · every-people

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9. yash poojary · every-people

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10. lucas crespo · every-people

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11. the writer-collective bench · every-people

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      "note": "the 2020–21 bundle roster: li jin (means of creation), tiago forte (praxis), nat eliason (almanack), jerry colonna (ask jerry), rachel jepsen (the long conversation), fadeke adegbuyi (cybernaut), adam keesling (napkin math), chris bosh (the last chip). most titles wound down as the collective became a branded publication.",
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12. the current roster · every-people

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13. agent-era work · every-themes

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14. allocation economy · every-themes

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15. the bundle · every-themes

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16. coding in public · every-themes

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17. independence · every-themes

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18. media and software · every-themes

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19. taste as moat · every-themes

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20. the writer who builds · every-themes

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21. writing as thinking · every-themes

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22. the dorm-room blog · every-writings · 2011–2016 (approximate)

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      "summary": "the danshipper.com archive — 109 posts of building and selling a startup from a dorm room, in public: 'what i learned bootstrapping a 6-figure business from school,' 'interviewing at y combinator,' 'i am a terrible programmer.'",
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23. superorganizers · every-writings · 2019–2022 (approximate)

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      "summary": "the interview series that started it — 'how to make yourself into a learning machine' (simon eskildsen), 'the man who reads 1,000 articles a day,' 'the fall of roam.' audience research disguised as a newsletter.",
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24. bundle magic · every-writings · 2020 (year)

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25. the founders' letter · every-writings · 2021-01-25 (day)

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      "summary": "the rebrand letter — 'the everything bundle is now every': the writer-collective economics (50% profit share, advances, list portability), the substack exit, the bedrock pre-seed, 2,400 paying subscribers.",
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26. am i getting ripped off · every-writings · 2021 (year)

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      "summary": "'am i getting ripped off writing at every' — evan armstrong publishes his contract and a financial model of the deal; the rare case where the economics of a writer collective were audited in public by the writer.",
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27. ai and the age of the individual · every-writings · 2022-11-10 (day)

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      "summary": "'ai and the age of the individual' — written weeks before chatgpt: ai pushes the cost of intelligence toward zero and opens domains to individuals and small teams. the pivot essay.",
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28. the gpt-3 journal experiments · every-writings · 2023-01 (month)

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29. the lenny bot · every-writings · 2023-02-08 (day)

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      "summary": "'how to build a chatbot with gpt-3' — the lenny bot over rachitsky's archive; lenny's highest-traffic day ever, ~3,000 users day one, ~2% day-two retention. the honest-metrics follow-up is the tell.",
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30. ai is transforming media forever · every-writings · 2023-05-04 (day)

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      "summary": "'ai is transforming media forever, here's how' — catalogs the de-risked content strategies and notes lucas crespo's gpt-4 digest bot 'built in python and deployed on heroku in two days… zero prior programming experience.' the essay that seeded spiral.",
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31. the lex spinout post · every-writings · 2023-08-22 (day)

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32. admitting what is obvious · every-writings · 2023-09-07 (day)

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      "summary": "'admitting what is obvious' — the identity reclassification after the hard summer: role models bill simmons, sam harris, nate silver, the green brothers; 'billions of dollars in value are wasted every year by people doing the high-status thing.'",
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33. the allocation economy · every-writings · 2024-01-19 (day)

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      "summary": "'the knowledge economy is over. welcome to the allocation economy' — the most-cited every framework: judged on how well you allocate and manage resources, not what you know. coins 'model manager.'",
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        "agent-era work"
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34. every's master plan · every-writings · 2024-07-18 (day)

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      "summary": "'every's master plan' — the turnaround memo: the hard summer, the solo-founder reset, writing reframed as the core process. names the team that ran it.",
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35. why generalists own the future · every-writings · 2024-09-06 (day)

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36. the sip seed post · every-writings · 2025-05-21 (day)

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        "src-p-raised"
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      "summary": "'so, we raised some money' — the $2m drawdown seed co-led by hoffman and startingline; 'call it a sip seed round.' a media-priced round for a company that keeps being weird on purpose.",
      "themes": [
        "independence",
        "media and software"
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      "title": "the sip seed post",
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37. toward a definition of agi · every-writings · 2025-07 (month)

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          "text": "agi is intelligence too valuable to shut off"
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        "src-p-author-newest"
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      "summary": "'toward a definition of agi' — the shutdown-value test; 'the magic minimum for ai agents' in the same month. the essay line that travels furthest.",
      "themes": [
        "agent-era work"
      ],
      "title": "toward a definition of agi",
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      "url": null,
      "venue": "chain of thought"
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38. every's master plan: part ii · every-writings · 2025-09-26 (day)

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      "date": "2025-09-26",
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          "sourceId": "src-p-master-plan-2",
          "text": "we live in the future. we write what we see. we build what's missing. we teach what works."
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        "src-p-master-plan-2"
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      "summary": "'every's master plan: part ii' — the operating loop made explicit: ~$1.2m arr, ~15% mom growth, consulting pacing $1–2m, < $2m raised. 'when software becomes cheap to build, ecosystems are the edge.'",
      "themes": [
        "media and software",
        "agent-era work",
        "taste as moat"
      ],
      "title": "every's master plan: part ii",
      "traction": null,
      "url": "https://every.to/on-every/every-s-master-plan-part-ii",
      "venue": "on every"
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39. seeing like a language model · every-writings · 2025-10 (month)

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      "date": "2025-10",
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      "person": "dan",
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        "src-p-seeing-lm",
        "src-p-seeing-business",
        "src-p-seeing-creativity",
        "src-p-tools-shape"
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      "summary": "the book series — 'i'm writing a book about the worldview i've developed by writing, coding, and living with ai,' serialized as 'seeing like a language model' chapters through october 2025.",
      "themes": [
        "writing as thinking",
        "agent-era work"
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      "title": "seeing like a language model",
      "traction": null,
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      "venue": "chain of thought"
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40. compound engineering · every-writings · 2025-12-11 (day)

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      "date": "2025-12-11",
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      "kind": "essay",
      "person": "kieran",
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        "src-p-compound",
        "src-c-compound-eng"
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      "summary": "'compound engineering: how every codes with agents' — a four-step engineering process for software teams that don't write code; shipped as a claude code plugin replicating every's internal workflow.",
      "themes": [
        "coding in public",
        "agent-era work"
      ],
      "title": "compound engineering",
      "traction": null,
      "url": null,
      "venue": "chain of thought"
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41. agent-native architectures · every-writings · 2026-01-09 (day)

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      "date": "2026-01-09",
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        "src-c-agent-native"
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      "summary": "'agent-native architectures: how to build apps after the end of code' — features written in english, not code; anthropic's mike krieger reportedly uses the framing.",
      "themes": [
        "agent-era work",
        "taste as moat"
      ],
      "title": "agent-native architectures",
      "traction": "hn ~23 points",
      "url": "https://every.to/guides/agent-native",
      "venue": "every"
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42. the proof postmortem · every-writings · 2026-03-20 (day)

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    {
      "date": "2026-03-20",
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      "person": "dan",
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        "src-p-vibe-viral",
        "src-i-proof-pod",
        "src-p-neuron"
      ],
      "summary": "'when your vibe coded app goes viral—and then goes down' — proof went viral, fell over under load, and the postmortem became the content. the coding-in-public ethos at its most honest.",
      "themes": [
        "coding in public"
      ],
      "title": "the proof postmortem",
      "traction": "thousands of docs in 48h; then it fell over",
      "url": null,
      "venue": "every"
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43. after automation · every-writings · 2026-05-21 (day)

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      "date": "2026-05-21",
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          "text": "ai progress creates more work for humans, not less"
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      "sourceIds": [
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        "src-c-after-automation",
        "src-p-after-automation"
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      "summary": "'after automation' — the ~8,000-word manifesto: agents write the code, draft the emails, handle support; yet every grew 4→30 humans since gpt-3 and there's more human work than ever. 'don't do your work. tend your loop.'",
      "themes": [
        "agent-era work",
        "allocation economy"
      ],
      "title": "after automation",
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      "venue": "every"
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44. ai & i · every-writings · 2023– (approximate)

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        "src-p-applepod",
        "src-p-transistor",
        "src-p-listennotes"
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      "summary": "ai & i — the twice-weekly show where guests screen-share their actual chat histories: reid hoffman, tyler cowen, kevin kelly, dwarkesh patel, sarah tavel, mike krieger, guillermo rauch, claire vo, and the internal roster.",
      "themes": [
        "coding in public",
        "agent-era work"
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      "title": "ai & i",
      "traction": "~120+ episodes",
      "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/ai-i/id1719789201",
      "venue": "ai & i"
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45. vibe check · every-writings · 2025– (approximate)

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      "date": "2025–",
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        "src-h-vibe-check-mobile"
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      "summary": "vibe check — day-zero hands-on reviews of frontier models under early access: o3, codex, gpt-5, sonnet 4.5, opus 4.5, cursor 3.0, fable. the franchise that requires lab relationships.",
      "themes": [
        "agent-era work",
        "coding in public"
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      "title": "vibe check",
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      "url": null,
      "venue": "every"
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46. divinations · every-writings · 2020–2023 (approximate)

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      "date": "2020–2023",
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      "person": "nathan",
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        "src-p-divinations-intro"
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      "summary": "divinations — business strategy explainers (five forces, quibi, sonos, roam) that became the bundle's analytical spine; ends when nathan leaves for lex.",
      "themes": [
        "the bundle"
      ],
      "title": "divinations",
      "traction": null,
      "url": null,
      "venue": "divinations"
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47. means of creation · every-writings · 2020–2021 (approximate)

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      "date": "2020–2021",
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        "src-h-moc-announce",
        "src-p-moc-launch",
        "src-p-moc-leave"
      ],
      "summary": "means of creation — the weekly live show on the passion economy with li jin; moved out of the every bundle to its own substack in late 2021 when her career turned toward variant fund.",
      "themes": [
        "the bundle"
      ],
      "title": "means of creation",
      "traction": null,
      "url": null,
      "venue": "every"
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48. napkin math · every-writings · 2021–2025 (approximate)

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      "date": "2021–2025",
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      "person": "evan",
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        "src-p-napkin-handoff",
        "src-h-evan-fulltime",
        "src-h-napkin-math-page"
      ],
      "summary": "napkin math — the finance and unit-economics column handed from adam keesling to evan armstrong; ~20k readers and 500k+ post views by early 2022, sponsorships from masterworks and axios. ended with his 2025 departure.",
      "themes": [
        "the bundle"
      ],
      "title": "napkin math",
      "traction": "~500,000 words over four years",
      "url": null,
      "venue": "napkin math"
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49. everyone keeps leaving · people-controversies · 2025 (year)

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      "date": "2025",
      "detail": "the columnist-retention pattern — the people who build gravity inside every keep leaving with it: keesling, li jin, fadeke, nathan to lex, evan to the leverage. the list-portability promise made leaving easier by design.",
      "id": "cty-people-retention",
      "reaction": "read either as the model's failure or its honest feature — every brands the departures as incubation, critics call it the magazine problem it was supposed to solve.",
      "sourceIds": [
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        "src-p-spinning-out-lex",
        "src-i-elysian",
        "src-i-fadeke-linkedin"
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      "title": "everyone keeps leaving"
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