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Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 56
AI forces us to reckon with what makes us human—a question caught between science and spirituality that MIT’s Dr. Alan Lightman is uniquely placed to explore. Dr. Lightman is a physicist, bestselling novelist, and professor of the practice of humanities at MIT. As one of the first at MIT to hold a joint faculty position in both the sciences and the humanities, he’s at ease walking the line between the two disciplines. I loved Dr. Lightman’s book Einstein’s Dreams, so I was psyched to have him on...
Apr 03, 2025•56 min•Ep. 55
Jonny Miller uploaded his entire life to ChatGPT to use it as the ultimate AI coach. He created what he calls a Codex Vitae—with core personality traits, values, goals, burnout signals and more to load into ChatGPT. It hyper-customizes his responses, to help him access deep meditation states, create custom supplementation plans, and do deep research on areas of brain and body that he finds interesting. Jonny runs a course on nervous system mastery, hosts a podcast, coaches founders and CEOs, and...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 54
I interviewed the Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy on AI & I. We spent an hour talking about his vision for AI in government, economic development, and the regulatory challenges ahead. His approach is refreshingly pragmatic: Spark real innovation at scale. Governor Murphy is laying the groundwork through an AI hub that pools the strengths of the government, academia (Princeton University), legacy tech (Microsoft), and next-gen players (CoreWeave). Creating a place for the brightest minds t...
Mar 19, 2025•47 min•Ep. 53
Steve Schlafman is using a $20 ChatGPT subscription to expand his consciousness. He’s doing this through: Advanced dream work —Steve records himself talking about his dreams every morning, uploads the transcript to ChatGPT, and prompts the LLM to analyze it like a Jungian dream analyst would. The model pulls out archetypes and hidden emotions that he would’ve been oblivious to. Creating living records of meaningful experiences—Instead of losing key insights from therapy or coaching, Steve uses t...
Mar 12, 2025•56 min•Ep. 52
Our sponsor for this episode is Microsoft. Want seamless collaboration without the cost? Microsoft Teams offers a robust free plan for individuals that delivers unlimited chat, 60-minute video meetings, and file sharing—all within one intuitive workspace that keeps your projects moving forward. Head to https://aka.ms/every to use Teams for free, and experience effortless collaboration, today. Mike Maples knows how AI startups can beat incumbents with billions of dollars. Mike—who wrote early che...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 51
Michael Taylor has perfected the art of getting AI to speak in tongues. He’s taught it to mimic the voices of your customers—so you can see how they would respond before you ship. Michael is the creator of Rally , a market research tool that lets you simulate an audience of AI personas. He built a simulator that lets us A/B test Every’s headlines on an audience that mimics the real Hacker News audience. It’s become a part of my writing workflow, and I love it because you test your assumptions qu...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 50
Nat Eliason ’s career arc is borderline absurd—but it works. In the last five years, he ran an SEO agency, got into crypto, made $600,000 from a course on the note-taking tool Roam Research , flipped real estate in Austin for a 6x return, and published a book with Random House. He’s now writing a book of science fiction and running a viral course about building apps with AI. I’ve known Nat for a long time, and I think he knows where the puck is headed better than anyone. He’ll see a new tool or ...
Feb 12, 2025•59 min•Ep. 49
Guillermo Rauch is one of the most prolific coders of this generation. But he doesn’t think of himself as a coder anymore. Coding, he says, is a specific skill that AI is becoming great at. Instead, he thinks the future of coding is more holistic, full-stack engineers who can ideate, design, and execute all together. Guillermo is the founder and CEO of Vercel , the creator of NextJS, and SocketIO. We spent an hour talking about the future of software development in an AI world—and the meta-skill...
Feb 05, 2025•56 min•Ep. 48
AGI is coming. Reid Hoffman just wrote the book on how to prepare. According to Reid, every major tech breakthrough (the written word, the printing press, the telephone) triggered mass fear. But, contrary to our worries, new technology tends to enhance human agency—even more so, if you know how to use it well. In Superagency , his book that was released yesterday, Reid examines how we’ve historically adopted new technologies and focuses on AI’s potential to increase our agency—the ability to mak...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 47
As a general partner at Spark Capital, Nabeel Hyatt backs just one or two companies each year. But when he does invest, Nabeel picks winners. He was an early investor in Discord , video editor Descript , self-driving startup Cruise (acquired by General Motor for over $1 billion) , and, recently, AI note-taking app Granola . Nabeel’s investment thesis is to look for products like the Japanese toilet. Don’t fret—Spark Capital hasn’t pivoted into the sanitaryware industry. Nabeel isn’t looking for ...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 46
Building an email client used to take many years and millions of dollars. But Every’s Kieran Klaassen built Cora —a totally new way to manage your inbox with AI—in just 3 months. He even shipped the original MVP of the product in a single day—something that just wasn’t possible before the current state of generative AI. Now, there are almost 10,000 people on the waitlist for Cora, and we’re onboarding new users every single day. Every’s head of Studio Brandon Gell and I worked closely with Kiera...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 45
AI is going to change science forever. Small scale studies will give way to large scale open data gathering efforts. We’ll shift from seeking broad general theories to making contextual predictions in individual cases. The traditional research paper will change fundamentally. That’s why I had Alice Albrecht on the show. Few people straddle the worlds of science and AI like she does: She holds a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from Yale and is a machine learning researcher with almost a decade of...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 44
Chris Pedregal knows how to build AI products that people love . Chris is the cofounder and CEO of Granola , an AI-powered notepad for meetings. We use it for many of our meetings at Every—the app listens in on the conversation, transcribes it in the background, and when the meeting ends, creates automated notes and a shareable transcript for anyone who missed it. If you take notes during the meeting, Granola polishes them to be more organized and complete. Granola is one of my favorite consumer...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 43
Here’s the most compelling benchmark of AI progress: A task that took 60 minutes a year ago now takes 60 seconds. In January 2024, researcher Geoffrey Litt and I spent an hour coaxing ChatGPT to build a simple app on this podcast. Nearly 12 months later, Steve Krouse and I built the same app with one prompt in less than minute. Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town , a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser. In this episode, we used Town...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 42
Over the last few months at Every, we’ve launched two new AI products with tens of thousands of users, and we’ll release a third one before the end of the year. The weird thing is: We’re a media company with less than 10 full-time employees, and we’re mostly bootstrapped. That’s not how things are supposed to work in startups. When we were first starting Every Studio six months ago, we were told a million reasons why it wouldn’t work: divided focus, not enough money, and the biggest one—it would...
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 41
Everyone told Vicente Silveira that his startup—a GPT wrapper—would fail. Instead, one year later, it’s thriving—with about 500,000 registered users, nearly 3,000 paying subscribers, and over 2 million conversations in the GPT store. Vicente is the cofounder and CEO of AI PDF , a tool to help you summarize, chat with, and organize your PDF files. When OpenAI allowed users to upload documents to ChatGPT, the consensus was that his startup, and all the other GPT wrappers out there, were toast. Eve...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 40
Prompt engineering isn’t just about telling AI to solve your problems—it’s about knowing which ones to solve. Yet there’s a mismatch between the people who can identify the right problems—experts with deep domain knowledge—and the technical infrastructure required for developing and refining prompts. Jared Zoneraich , the cofounder and CEO of prompt engineering platform PromptLayer , is bridging the gap with a platform on which non-technical experts can manage, deploy, and evaluate prompts quick...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 39
Notion cofounder Simon Last told me everything he’s learned from integrating an AI application into a platform that has over 100 million users . Simon likes to keep a low profile, even though he’s the driving force behind Notion AI , one of the most widely scaled AI applications in the world. In this episode, we get into how AI changes the way he builds software since the days he cofounded Notion with Ivan Zhao in 2013. He talks about the challenges that arise because AI doesn’t follow the deter...
Nov 08, 2024•56 min•Ep. 38
Union Square Ventures is building an AI operating system to support their investment team. But it’s not what you think: It’s a constellation of AI tools that captures and synthesizes the firm's collective wisdom. It’s evolving every day, and Matt Cynamon is the mad scientist in charge Matt calls himself a “regular” at USV. In practice that means he’s responsible for running experiments with AI for the firm. As an inherently curious person with the professional obligation to tinker, he’s built a ...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 37
Yohei Nakajima leads a double life. By day, he’s a general partner of a small venture firm, Untapped Capital . By night, he’s one of the most prolific internet tinkerers in AI. (He also sometimes works on automating his job as a venture capitalist .) He’s the creator of BabyAGI (@babyAGI_), the first open-source autonomous agent that went viral in March 2023. Yohei has since released seven iterations of BabyAGI, a coding agent called Ditto, a framework for building autonomous agents, and, mo...
Oct 23, 2024•58 min•Ep. 36
Simon Eskildsen is a learning machine. I first interviewed him in 2020 about how he leveled up from being an intern at Shopify to becoming the company’s director of production engineering by reading and applying insights from hundreds of books. A lot has changed over the last four years. Language models have made it possible to access and contextualize information faster, easier, and more cheaply than ever before—and in this episode, Simon and I talk about how this changes the way he learns. Sim...
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 35
If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT . It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Evan Armstrong: @itsurboyevan The column Evan writes at Every: Napkin Math Evan’s up...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 34
The Browser Company isn’t just building a browser , they’re building a formidable brand—and they’re doing it with AI. The Browser Company has driven viral user growth , a $550 million valuation , and close to 100,000 YouTube subscribers . Its brand centers people, not products. It’s messy, authentic, and refreshing—and it seeps into everything the team does, from the job descriptions on their website to announcing new features through short films and giving keynote addresses in diners . I sat do...
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 33
We’re building a mini-AI media and software empire at Every. Today on AI & I , Brandon Gell joins the show to turn the tables on me and act as podcast host to explore what we’re doing as a company, how we got here, and where we’re going. Brandon is Every’s first entrepreneur in residence, and he was the perfect person to host, because he’s one of the key reasons for our recent acceleration. Before joining Every, Brandon was the cofounder and CEO of Clyde , a startup that helped brands launch...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 32
Alex Wieckowski is on a mission to make you fall in love with reading again—and he thinks AI can help. Alex, who writes a newsletter that captures lessons from books he’s read and tips to become a better reader, Alex & Books , is a creator with over 1 million followers across social platforms. He’s also the author of a book of quotes that will inspire you to read more, Learn to Love Reading . We spent an hour talking about how Alex uses AI to be a smarter reader, and we tested out a few stra...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 31
One of the most influential voices in tech explains how AI helps him write and invest. This episode is sponsored by Create. If you want to maximize your gains, both with your body and with ChatGPT, try creatinine gummies from Create. Place your order through this link to get a 30 percent discount: https://trycreate.co/products/creatine-monohydrate-gummies-270-count?discount=every24 Packy McCormick’s job is to find, articulate, and invest behind the next big idea. He writes Not Boring, a newslett...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 30
Keeping up with AI is Nathaniel Whittemore’s full-time job—and I spent an hour with him to understand how he does it. Nathaniel is the host of a top-ranked AI podcast on the technology charts, The AI Daily Brief, which breaks down the most important news in AI every day. He is also the founder and CEO of Superintelligent, a platform that teaches you how to use AI for work and fun through interactive video tutorials. We talked about how he curates information with X bookmarks, Google News, news a...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 29
This episode is sponsored by Command Bar, an embedded AI copilot designed to improve user experience on your web or mobile site. Find them here: https://www.commandbar.com/copilot/ Dwarkesh Patel is on a quest to know everything. He’s using LLMs to enhance how he reads, learns, thinks, and conducts interviews. Dwarkesh is a podcaster who’s interviewed a wide range of people, like Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Blair, and Marc Andreesen. Before conducting each of these interviews, Dwarkesh learns as much ...
Jul 24, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 28
Steph Smith is the ultimate internet explorer. I spent an hour talking to her about the future of creating on the internet in the age of AI. She’s our first-ever repeat guest, and if you watch the episode you’ll see why: It’s a curious, fun, experimental romp through the best of the digital world. We try out four underrated AI products, go through a list of Steph’s favorite niche internet creators, and follow her creative process in Midjourney in granular detail. We had a wide-ranging discussion...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 27
