Every Audio Essays
Episodes
The First King of Home Computing
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Tramiel, a Holocaust survivor-turned-tech titan, revolutionized computing by making it accessible to everyday families. His ruthless business tac...
The Misfit Who Built the IBM PC
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From IBM’s backwater offices in Boca Raton, Florida, Don Estridge ushered in the era of personal home computers. He was a corporate misfit who broke...
ChatGPT Is Changing Our Understanding of the Human Intellect
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT is changing what it means to feel uniquely human. Large language models have the ability to mimic human creativity and spout human knowledge a...
She Built a Microcomputer Empire From Her Suburban Home
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lore Harp McGovern was one of the most influential women in the history of computing, but her story, and her company, haven’t been given their due. ...
Ads in the Age of AI
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ads subsidize our entire information ecosystem, keeping content free and accessible for everyone. AI may change all that by reducing both the amount o...
The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs’s Greatest Rival
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1980s, two rivals waged a public war for the soul of home computing: Adam Osborne and Steve Jobs. Yet only Steve Jobs is remembered today...
Reddit: The Internet’s Bellwether
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reddit is a special place on the internet that happens to be a mediocre business. However, its recent S-1 document revealed something interesting: It ...
AI and the Vision Pro Don’t Need a Killer App
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is hunting for the killer app—software so good that it justifies the purchase of new hardware. But the new tech platforms of AI and virtual...
Autonomous Vehicles Have a Problem of Narrative
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend, a crowd of revelers in San Francisco’s Chinatown burned an autonomous vehicle from Waymo down to its frame. Tech is now the fifth leas...
Crypto’s Prophet Speaks
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Dixon, the patron saint of crypto, is still preaching the gospel.In this essay, Every lead writer Evan Armstrong deconstructs Dixon’s new book...
The Zone of Deployment: How Can You Know When to Invest?
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investing is easy. Investing wisely—well, not so much. In this essay, Every lead writer Evan Armstrong helps you wade through the morass of hyped-u...
The Secret Father of Modern Computing
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1974, Ed Roberts was $250,000 in the hole from a calculator business and begging the bank for a $65,000 loan. This money wasn’t going t...
How I Use ChatGPT (As a Reasonable Person)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI is both overhyped and underutilized.Every’s lead writer Evan Armstrong believes that we have crossed the AI rubicon, estimating that the technolo...